As the cult of celebrity thickens, it’s fast becoming an epidemic. I’m sitting in Orlando just down the road from the once squeeky clean Tiger Woods who’s now looking like he was a tiger after all. He only ever popped out for a round of golf but now he’s got to be feeling a little [...]
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On December - 6 - 2009
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 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 November - 26 - 2008
I just received a call from Neil with the very sad news that one of our former Island colleagues, Rob Partridge had passed away. Rob was one of the finest human beings ever to have graced the music industry and an engine room giant, yet his greatest quality was that he was an ‘all round [...]
categories: Archives, Creativity, Insights Collection, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Life, PR, People, Places, Press, View from the "Engine Room"
On November - 23 - 2008
The idea of regional promotion tours were to help create awareness for the artist and more often than not they did. You would take artists in to do radio interviews, there would be an opportunity to meet the radio folks, the odd lunch, a drink here and there and then when you went back in [...]
categories: Archives, Journey Thru The Past, PR, People, Places, Tony Michaelides, View from the "Engine Room"
On October - 31 - 2008
Great as it was seeing U2 for the first time the same cannot be said for Adam’s hair. It was bad, the type that you’d imagine not belonging to a head but more as a shock treatment demo and on the end of a pole in a neuro surgeon’s treatment room. It was a harsh [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Motivation, PR, People, Places
On October - 30 - 2008
The decision made, Mark called the Polytechnic in Manchester and we were added to the guest list. Having your lodger on the radio back then was a major plus and saved us a fortune in gigs! I think the social secretary at the Poly was a guy called Elliot Rashman who later went on to manage Simply Red, [...]
On October - 23 - 2008
Although the record companies had music people working there they were not alone, people who were in to music were employed at all levels. If they liked music they wanted to find somewhere where they could indulge their passion and get paid at the same time. Their spare time was going to concerts, it was [...]
