Haven’t been up here for as few days posting but don’t worry I wasn’t going to leave you for too long. I’ve busy working on my book and dealing with a family illness which has seen the days fly by. The positive in all of it has been that it has allowed me to go [...]
Archive for the ‘Opportunity’ Category
On January - 31 - 2009
Tampa is awash with Superbowlites, they’re everywhere and all to see the men with big shoulders running around shouting until eventually throwing an odd shaped ball out of the ground. Everyone jumps up, play stops and an entire new team runs on. I don’t understand American football and I don’t think I ever will.
Nevertheless it’s [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Innovation, Inspiration, Inspiration vs. Motivation, Leadership, Opportunity
On January - 26 - 2009
I’ve been moving furniture around and I’m knackered. I’ve lost half the stuff I put in places to make it easier to find them but I suppose it’s bound to get easier when I eventually do find them. Nevertheless good things happen and Facebook once more re introduces figures from the past and more glorious [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Journey Thru The Past, Managing Creativity, Opportunity, PR, People, Tony Michaelides
On January - 20 - 2009
So today it all begins. Much as I am delighted to see Obama take the helm it’s just as exciting to see George Bush going. I’ll never understand how he got re elected though, one mistake you can condone but to ask him to come back and do it all over again is a little [...]
On January - 16 - 2009
We need stars, we don’t have them any more and the ones that we do call stars are different, they’re train wrecks, they’re misfits, they’re tortured ‘artists’. But Lindsay, Britney, Madonna even, aren’t tortured like Janis was, Jimi Hendrix or Brian Jones were they are just people craving attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s they [...]
On December - 9 - 2008
I started to write the last couple of blogs about Leonard Cohen and I thought, why stop there, he’s 74 years old so there’s plenty to say about the man. Leonard Cohen must live forever, we should always have him around.
I did a radio show for many years, and in many years interviewed many people [...]
On December - 3 - 2008
The Stiff Chiswick Challenge that April night in Manchester had left everyone wanting….Tony Wilson and Alan Erasus a label, more immediately a venue to put bands on…. Rob Gretton managing a band, Ian Curtis a chance to be on TV, and me to go home because it was ludicrously late and I needed my bed! [...]
categories: A & R, Archives, Artist Development, Innovation, Inspiration, Opportunity, PR, People, Places, Tony Michaelides
On December - 1 - 2008
I was just talking with an old old friend who tracked me down on Facebook ( really no one does get out of there alive ! )He was asking me if I still lived at The Edge, when in fact I told him I hadn’t even lived in the country for 5 years and The [...]
On November - 17 - 2008
Factory Records started life at 86 Palatine Road in the Manchester surburb of West Didsbury. They set up shop in the second floor flat of co founder Alan Erasmus where they remained for the best part of the next decade. They had a vision, they wanted to put out good records. It was vision much [...]
On November - 5 - 2008
Many books have been written about Manchester and they’ll be many more to come. I’m just grateful I spent all my working life in the music business in the 70’s, 80’s and 90′ there and was never tempted to take a job down south. I loved working out on the road, loved starting my promotion [...]
