Confessions of an artist manager

The music industry is tough. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s builds you up, strips you bare and then runs away with everything leaving you questioning everything you thought you knew. That’s one side of it.

The other side is the better side. It is having an artist manager relationship where all the above to some degree becomes worth it because you battle through it together and build a foundation that is unbreakable.

I’m not saying you will work with that artist forever, because life happens, but you never lose that friendship, trust or loyalty. The loyalty is something that remains in place throughout your life, throughout any situation no matter what ‘job’ you are in.

It’s no secret to some that I hate the music industry. Let’s face it, I wear my heart on my sleeve, I follow my heart, i can’t hide my emotions, I take things personally all too often and I really don’t have a tough skin. Pretty much all the things you need to survive this dog eat dog world. So what the hell am I doing living and breathing it?

The answer is I don’t know.

All I do know is that it becomes part of you. It gets into your veins and when the successes hit a high you are high and when they are low, they are the lowest of the low. It is a drug that you can’t escape from no matter how much your head tells you to. No matter how much you want to protect yourself, you just can’t save yourself from it.

The most difficult part is knowing and believing 150% how amazing your artist is and wanting everyone else to see that. And when I mean everyone, I mean EVERYONE. And god I will try.

It’s true that not each person I come into contact with is going to like my artists music and I get that completely but I have this fierce overwhelming urge to make them at least understand the time, work, dedication, blood, sweat and tears that go into their craft and for them to appreciate that.

You see, we have had setbacks, we have had opportunities that we have worked so hard for given to us and then lost and we have had days where we just don’t want to do this anymore and that for me is a killer.

As an artist manager you begin to question your abilities. You wonder if you have worked hard enough, if you have gone to the right place at the right time, you wonder if you have spoken to as many people as you could have done, if you should have worked 20 hours a day instead of 18, if you should have gone to the latest launch party and the thoughts go on and on and on until you don’t even know what you were thinking in the first place.

Set backs are hard for an artist manager. You feel guilt, deflation, you feel like you are going to lose your artist.

But then you see what your artist is going through and you feel their emotion and their pain and this then intensifies yours because you feel responsible and you feel protective and the very last thing you want to see is them defeated or let down.

So everything that happens, an artist manager you feel it twice. Every success. Every set back. Every achievement. Every defeat. Every high. Every low. Each one is felt twice. Each one with a hard hitting emotion that you feel responsible for.

The music industry is thankless and it is fickle and ever changing. It is not supportive as most people would have you believe.

Let’s take for example, and quite apt for what we have just done and will be in the middle of again very soon, a single campaign.

You of course want your peers to support you because they understand what you have gone through to get this single out there into the world. They understand the time it takes to write the lyrics, to rewrite and then rewrite again. They understand the challenge of recording, mixing, remixing, maybe going back and changing the lyrics again, mixing again and mastering.

They understand the effort to get the music out to radio, to follow up with said radio to ensure airplay, the social media updates, the website updates, the marketing side, the strategy for pre release and post release, the distribution set up, the artwork design, the pre save and pre order links, the gigging, the interviews, the festival applications, the successes, the rejections and often the small factor of having a full time day job and children and families to look after. Oh and maybe getting a couple of hours sleep.

Your peers will get that and support you right?!

Well, as an Artist Manager, I’m going to say you are wrong.

I study everything. And again I mean EVERYTHING. From chart positions and streams of other artists, to the support they give to my artist.

Every week without fail, a message will hit my inbox, “hey, I have this single coming out. It would be amazing if you would support me by ordering/streaming/downloading’ and so on.

Or ‘hey thanks for accepting my friend request. Ive followed your work. Here’s my song if you would download it’

This isn’t a way to build a business.

It isn’t a way of building your fan base. But what my point is, is that every one will always forget what you have done for them.

You bought their single 6 months ago and shared their Facebook post about their next show.

You now have a single coming out and where is the support?

That’s right. Right where they forgot about you buying their single 6 months ago.

But announce that you are quitting the music industry tomorrow and you will get 1,000 comments saying how amazing your music is and how they have always supported you.

No you haven’t!

So as an artist manager, let me just say that the music industry whilst undeniably resentful, full of jealousy, cliques and resistance has given me something that I never saw in myself.

Fierce loyalty and determination.

And that loyalty isn’t to the music industry. My loyalty isn’t to the cliques that’s have formed. I have no intention of putting on a fake smile and pretending I admire somebody’s work just so we can get a foot in the door. I have no desire to be part of a clique. Those will soon disband. There will always be another ‘cool kids’ club that pops up.

My loyalty is to my artist who I see work consistently hard with more determination and stubborn ability than I have, and that is saying something.

It is to my artist who I have often seen deflated by the way the music industry deals some ridiculously cruel cards and to my artist who I have let see me just as deflated.

It is to my artist who is constantly navigating this horribly difficult industry with me. Every one of those highs and every one of those lows.

It is to my artist who I have unrivalled loyalty to and unrivalled belief in and who I know that no matter what happens in the industry, I have a friend for life because you can’t do this thankless job and not have someone who you can tell anything to. You need that sounding board through the good and the bad.

It is to us. Who keep it real even at the worst of times. Who believe that the hard work and commitment will eventually pay off.

And that is why I keep fighting to navigate my way through the industry because in my eyes there is no one more deserving of success than the artist who does that.

Winging it…again!! A-Team updates! 😇

As an artist manager you cross paths with so many people in the music industry; those who inspire you, those who motivate you and those who change you. Very rarely do you come across somebody who does all three.

My journey on this weird and wonderful musical escapade hasn’t been a smooth ride or something that I have wanted to be continually part of but working with my artist, Stuart Landon, has seen us create something that I believe will change the way artist and manager relationships are portrayed.

Spending a lot of time in London & Los Angeles really opened my eyes to how formal some business relationships are and how flawed and unproductive the impact of this can be.

Some artists were only speaking to their management once a month for updates and the rest of the time they were navigating their way through the industry alone worrying about what their next move should be. Some of these artists didn’t even know when their next single release was going to be, when their next gig was, some didn’t even know who their actual manager was as they had contact with numerous people within a company!

There is no right or wrong way for an artist and a manager to work together. You find your own momentum and you figure out what works for you both but once a month communication surely isn’t the way.

In my opinion, artist management should be primarily about trust, communication and loyalty. These are the fundamental qualities that are needed to build a long lasting relationship.

Stuart & I both very much operate an open door policy and an unbreakable loyalty to each other where we talk about anything and everything.

This is important to us as it gives us the freedom to not only discuss any issues that come up but the safety net of knowing that any disagreements can be talked about without the fear of rocking the boat.

Whilst in Los Angeles, I spoke to three artists who were too afraid to pick up the phone to their managers with current issues that they had for fear of being dropped or being seen as troublemakers. Each artist had valid reasons for their concerns but neither one was comfortable enough to speak to their manager as their relationship was too formal and they didn’t feel like they could discuss it.

Those artists won’t succeed whilst under that management and I told them this.

On the positive side, I have been extremely lucky to meet an incredible manager who looks after a world renowned artist.

Colin Lester, who is the manager to Craig David, was attending the MUSEXPO in LA the first time I met him. His relationship with Craig almost mirrors the one I have with Stuart and the similarities as to how we work have really amazed me.

The advice and guidance that I have received from Colin has been so valuable and has been a fundamental part of my artist management talks both here in the UK and in LA.

Relationships are everything in the music world no matter what your role is but I have always been about making a change in the music industry. When I first started out 5 years ago, the platform I created was for emerging artists and CEI was made to provide a stage for unknown talent; putting them in front of new audiences and creating a network.

Now, as time has progressed and I find myself in the place where I think I was meant to be, with an artist that I was meant to work with, I still believe in making a change.

However, that change is now for us. It is about developing our profile as an artist and a manager and showing the world what can be achieved when you have a team and a relationship that goes beyond a formal business setting.

How we work won’t be for everyone but the relationship we have built has created a momentum and an interest that we want to share.

We have created a friendship that has carried us through three years of ups and downs in this crazy industry, laughter, tears (from me!), a lot of swearing (from him!), the odd drunken nights out (ok, a few!) and we want to share how we have overcome challenges, created opportunities, started to see success and kept it fun along the way.

So with that in mind, Stuart & I are so excited to be hitting the road this year and hosting our own artist / manager music talks.

We have never done this before so yes, we are winging it but its going to be so much fun and it’s what we do. We know the industry and we know each other so it’s our way of doing something slightly different and allowing people a behind the scenes look into what we do whilst giving back and educating those looking to progress in the music industry.

My own talks which I have given to Live Nation, Kobalt Music and other industry leaders have been a great experience but to do these talks with someone who has become my best friend is going to be so much fun.

What’s even better is that we are going to be joined on a few of the dates by a couple of very special people.

All of the dates are going to be announced at the end of the month. We will share all the locations, ticket links and more information then.

We appreciate all the support we have continuously had and can’t wait to share our journey and stories at these shows!

🎶💕🎶

Chasing the small time

The definition of success in the music industry is different for everyone.

Some will say it is maintaining a standard of excellence. Some will think it is selling out their hometown venues. Some will say it is mastering their skill of their instrument.

Whatever success means to you, that’s great. That’s one factor. But there is so much more to it than that.

Will those factors alone get you to the big time?

People will argue that they don’t even want to get to that stage and they just do it for the love of the music. Again, great. And if that’s what you think, it’s probably best you stop reading now.

Music is increasingly, notoriously hard. No longer are people mind blown by an artist who can play that guitar technically better than Hendrix or Clapton! Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a talking point amongst your peers, but 90% of the audience won’t even know what chord you are playing so it definitely doesn’t define how successful you are going to be.

So what does?

And why are artists not doing it?

These are my thoughts and whilst they not everyone will agree, I’ve used these to create the framework of my all of businesses and sculpt into it what I want with some key success.

Individuality & Originality

I’m not sure which one of these an artist thinks its ok to not be.

How many times have I been to a gig and the artist sounds the same as the support artist?

How many times have I witnessed the same cover song performed over and over again by pretty much every artist on the scene?

How many times have I been lost in my own thoughts because song after song is being bashed out without any audience interaction?

Too many!! More than I wish to remember.

This is why venues are not full. It’s the reason why tickets to your gigs aren’t selling.

It’s the reason why promoters and booking agents cleverly choose their support acts. If a solo female is headlining, they won’t have another female solo artist as a support artist who played the same venue last week who does the same cover song that you think you do so originally well!

Or is it because you think you are playing it safe?

Do you think you are playing what your audience wants to hear? Do you think within time that live video of you filmed by one of your 20 audience guests is going to go viral and land you that big gig?

I’ll tell you now, it isn’t. The music industry doesn’t work this way and it surely doesn’t give opportunities to those playing it safe.

Be bold. Be dedicated. Be different. Or for gods sake put that guitar away.

Never trust a sheep

So you admire that artist who just had a number one hit on iTunes or just landed a big tour or have just started a weekly live show etc etc.

You are impressed by their following on Facebook and will go and pay to get that many fans.

You think their style is unique and you might try that.

You want to cover the song they just did because it had a great audience reaction.

Don’t do it!! Why are you being a sheep?!

Before you start copying what they are doing, asking yourself what are they doing that you aren’t. And then ask yourself how you can do it better.

Remember, it takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone and this is how you will make people notice you.

Be a lion.

Get a team

Ok, so I’ll be fair. Music is hard. And it isn’t just about performing anymore.

There is so much to do to be able to get yourself ahead of everyone else.

Now more than ever, statistics matter. Streams matter. Views matter.

Like it or not, this is what the industry are looking at and monitoring.

The admin side of Music is a full time job. How many hours do you spend a day trying to find gigs, updating your social media, doing PR, reaching out to promoters, engaging with fans and so on. All of this and still finding time to write, create and perform is never going to happen.

And if you are doing it alone you are not doing it effectively.

If you think you can do it alone then you don’t know the industry and need to get educated.

Work fricking harder

Lets be honest for a second.

We all have dreams. We all want the best of everything.

But why do so many people think that the world owes them?

So many people crave success but actually no one is willing to work for it.

It’s pure common sense that to achieve what you want, you have to work for it.

If you put more energy into focusing on your business instead of watching everyone else’s, you will soon start to see your work paying off.

Charl x

Beyond country…

Something struck me this weekend whilst I was hidden away in the Scottish mountains contemplating my life and my contribution to the music industry.

What I thought, and subsequently tried to work out was Why do artists only network in the genre in which they perform?

It would seem like an obvious answer and probably to 90% of people it would be a logical thing to do. But just how detrimental is that to their career?

On Wednesday night I will be attending the Brit Awards as a guest of a multi genre A&R company. I’ll be attending as a country music artist manager.

A country manager at a pop/rock event. Strange? Probably to that 90% yes, but to me it is crucial to the plans I have next.

Despite what everyone will have you believe, Country Music is still not big in the UK. Yes, the annual C2C festival is a sellout and the American artists that are coming over thick and fast are building a ever growing legion of fans here but that still isn’t helping our homegrown artists anywhere near enough as it should be.

The ‘UK Country’ artists as they are so often referred to are not getting the support from the majority of fans who support the big label, established names and whilst that is a choice, they are also not being supported anywhere near enough by the organisers working within the scene.

So what is a manager to do? How do you look outside the box? How can you believe so strongly in your artist, yet move them away from a scene that they have spent years in and still make that a success?

When I say move away from the scene, I don’t mean their genre, I mean exactly that, the scene.

The network.

The network is probably a managers best weapon. The artist can have the best voice, the best songs and be the best product but how do you steer that to success?

A country artist shouldn’t only network within a country scene, just like a rock artist shouldn’t be afraid to cross over and network with other genres.

A music event isn’t about the genre. It is about meeting your peers, discussing music, creating opportunities, finding opportunities, talking about different artists and learning about them. Educating yourself on a wider spectrum.

So on Wednesday night, as well as convincing Ed Sheeran to write a song with me (obviously!), I’ll be discussing the music industry with some of the leaders.

People think it is difficult to cross into a scene that is not your genre but that is the word that trips everyone up. Genre.

Great music is great music. A great artist is a great artist. Don’t pigeonhole yourself or your artist. Let the music do the talking.

Whether you are country, rock, punk or metal. Find a crowd. Believe in what you do. Talk about your achievements. Know your field. Believe beyond all doubt that what you do and who you work with are worth them knowing about. The rest will follow. Make them listen. Make them believe.

Get out there and do it.

Charl xx

Keeping the music going at Christmas

Christmas is the easiest time to lose momentum in business; the array of films on tv, party food galore and parties to attend. It’s only a natural reaction that business starts to slow down as we look forward to time off from our every day grind.

For me though, I always avoid the risk of losing momentum, business and bookings by making time to review and prepare.

A well planned review and some work will allow you to hit the ground running in January.

As an artist, if you don’t have bookings in January or any music planned for release then you may find January will be a dead month for you.

There is nothing harder than trying to fill the diary for what is essentially a quieter month in the music industry.

Sitting back until the 2nd January, you will find those gig slots have been taken by an artist focused enough to have secured their dates before you. Those artists releasing music will be at the forefront of every promoter & booking agents mind and before you know it February has rolled around and you have not achieved anything in January.

There goes your New Year Resolution!

So here are my tips on keeping the momentum going and keeping that music happening!

Celebrate your year

Review the last year and celebrate everything that you have achieved. Go through your diary and highlight the best gigs you had, the chart position you achieved, the people you met. Whatever is an achievement to you. Write it down and then look back at how much impact your music had on the world this year.

Then do the same for the things that didn’t go so well. Doing this isn’t a negative thing to do. In any business we have to look at what we could have done better in order to learn from it, adapt it and make it even better. Being able to identify what didn’t go so well will allow you to plan how to stop it happening again and highlight even more just how important your successes are!

Change your mindset

Don’t assume Christmas is a completely dead time for making deals. During the Christmas of 2017, I made so many more contacts than I had during the past two months. This was only through networking. Remember, people are generally happier during the Christmas period so a friendly face and a glass of bubbly means you are half way there!!

A lot of industry people will still be working and you may find that they will be surprised that you are too. Showing a bit of drive and ambition at a time when most people won’t, puts you one step ahead of the game and may just land you that slot in their diary for January!

Don’t forget the 30 day rule

If you have never heard about it, there is a 30 day rule that dictates that the work you do for 30 days will pay off for the next 90 days. If you take December off then March will see you stall.

Keep your social media content going

So you aren’t gigging or in the studio or on tour but that doesn’t mean you should let your social media channels slip. Your fans still want to hear from you and it doesn’t have to be music related. Let them have a little insight into your life at Christmas. Just one post a day will keep the logarithm of social media going and you will be thankful you did. Social media is ever changing and the way they present your posts to your followers is ever changing too. By taking just 2 days away from Instagram for example, can see you lose up to 60 followers and that’s then 60 followers you need to get back. Just a quick post of that holiday film you are watching #diehard (is it a Christmas film or not?!) or that extra shot of whisky you just poured #whynot?

These are just some of the things that I work into my plan to make sure that January is a sure starter. There’s nothing worse than taking time off to find you have to start pressing the panic mode button because you have stalled.

That said, Christmas is an amazing time and everyone deserves a break after an hectic year.

This year has been successful and hard but worth every minute and 2019 looks set to be one of the best yet with new music, tours and promotional gigs all ready and sat in the diary.

I hope you all have the most amazing Christmas and New Year and that 2019 is successful and happy for everybody.

Love,

Me 💕 xx

Success in music management is achieving an artists goals

What defines success in music management? Do you really have to sign a 2 album record deal with a major label or go on a world tour to say you are successful?

Artist success is different from manager success from a business point of view; they are both working towards the same goals but the delivery is different and what they deem as success can be different too.

For me, success in management means achieving an artist’s goals and that can range from anything from having a number 1 single to having a hundred thousand fans on social media. A goal is a goal and if the artist wants to work towards that and achieves it, it’s a success. Anything that takes hard work and planning to achieve – and deliver – is success.

As a manager, I have been lucky to see a lot of success happen with my artist Stuart Landon.

From award nominations with his band, Angels With Dirty Faces to a number 1 solo single.

Last night, we reached another success with a completed EP.

The energy, dedication, skill and hard work in this EP is exactly what I hear through these songs. It is incredible and I can’t wait for everyone else to hear them when it launches at a sold out event on Sunday, however we don’t stop here.

With every success, comes the need for another success, and another, and another.

I am fiercely ambitious and very hard to impress with music so when I hear something I believe in and work with someone I believe in, ambition takes on a whole new level.

When I speak at music events, I’m always asked, “How do you get to this stage?”, “How do you find the right artist?” and “How do you become a manager?” and I always say the following.

When working with any artist, you should have a completely open relationship. If you can build trust first, you have the foundations. You then need to talk about the good and the bad of the music business and keep coming back with new ideas. Do something well? Reflect and do it even better next time. Do something not so well? Learn from it, develop and do it even better next time!

It’s a constantly changing industry and a very fickle one at that but if you can work with an artist who you trust and one who trusts you completely with their career then you can effectively contribute to expanding their horizons and taking their music to the next level and that as a manager is hugely rewarding.

All of these elements create a strong platform that can take you forward in the music industry.

So for now, we chase the next success. With the music firmly in place and sounding incredible, it’s time for me to step this game up and make the rest of the world hear and see what I do.

For more information on Stuart Landon:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stuartlandonandtheangelswithdirtyfaces

Website: http://www.stuartlandon.co.uk

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5TFAIXbHcZmUAyy4bSQTeT?si=79yTdfZiQZCyK6h_DKSDjQ

Charlotte x

Exposure or Exploitation?

Opening up my email to see an invitation for my artist to play an event is great. What’s even better is when the organiser recognises the value of their talent and is offering to pay the rate.

However, on an all too frequent basis, I receive an email or a message asking if they will play for free and quite frankly, I am sick and tired of it.

When did an artists talent become so under valued that it became appropriate to ask them to play for free?

At what point does exposure become exploitation?

And when did payment in food and beer ever pay the bills?

I completely understand the need for exposure but unless it is going to put you in a position where it could further your career, you should be very picky about what you do for free.

Don’t follow what everyone else is doing on the scene. So many artists are playing for free just to look busy and I cannot understand the mentality of it.

If somebody approached me and asked me to plan an event for them for their 100 people awards dinner for free but they would be willing to feed me, I would ask them how they think a 3 course meal is going to pay my mortgage!

The bank manager isn’t that kind to me unfortunately!

The music business is just that – a business and not just an opportunity for an organiser to devalue talent.

Likewise, the artist needs to not cheapen themselves by not earning their worth and feeling like they will only gain a following by playing for free.

At what point did ‘great exposure’ and ‘a busy event’ become reasons to play for free?

Let me have my weekly shopping from Morrisons for free (including the 5p plastic bags!) and I’ll give them all the exposure they need.

It’s never going to happen so please stop undervaluing an artist.

So the next time you ask an artist to play, consider all the hours they spend rehearsing and making themselves the best they can be at their craft. Consider the amount of money they have spent on insurance, instruments, equipment, travel, accommodation and the other expenditure that comes with being an artist.

Think about that and then consider if you should ask them to play for free.

Charlotte

Charlotte Elizabeth

Halo Music

Musical truth: A change is coming

I am a female in the music industry.

This statement alone will receive a laugh. A raised eyebrow or be completely ignored.

You see, the moment a female takes an interest in the music industry they become part of a culture that is dominated by men.

Take a look around to really notice what I mean.

The band performing at your local pub, the assistant working in the music shop, the roadies at the next stadium tour, the headliner of the latest festival, the label heads, the talent agency scouts and on and so on – the list continues.

I want you to look at this article with the music industry as a whole as the focus. Don’t just think artists but the whole list that I have mentioned above and consider why it is so male dominated.

Does it come down to exclusion at a young age? An idea that girls shouldn’t be playing in bands, learning instruments, studying music, learning how to become a sound engineer?

Or is it intimidation and sexism? Believe me when I say, I have seen and heard a manager tell his artist that he wouldn’t be sending her music out but he would be sending her photo as ‘sex sells’ and her ‘image is more important than the sound’. Seriously?! These are the people we need out of the industry.

Or is it, as I’ve seen on numerous forum conversations, simply that the female artists are not as talented as the male artists?

NO!

And if you have considered yes an answer then you should be ashamed.

Let’s take a look at the country scene in Facts and Figures:

2017 named Shania Twain the most successful female country artist of all time with 48 million US units sold, 5 Grammys, 4 ACM Awards and 2 CMA Awards.

On the Top 20 list of male and female artists, Shania was 3rd on the list only behind Garth Brooks in 1st place and George Strait in 2nd.

Other notable females on the list include Reba McEntire, The Dixie Chicks, Linda Ronstadt, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.

Now, the talent is out there but why is radio play so difficult and is this a new occurrence?

Not really. It seems females have had a continuing and unfair fight in the music industry for a long time.

Before her death in January, country singer, songwriter and producer Lari White discussed this and said in the 90’s when so many of country musics biggest selling females were at the heights of their careers, country radio only had room for one at a time.

She said “You wouldn’t believe how many programme directors looked me in the eye and said ‘You know, I’d love to hear your music but we’ve already got a female act we are playing'”

Keith Hill, a radio consultant said “I play great female records, they’re just not the lettuce in our salad” which then infamously started the ‘tomatogate’ uproar.

His theory was that country music is listened to by more female listeners than male and therefore they would want to hear male voices.

In 2017, fewer female artists received airplay than the year previous.

As a female songwriter and artist manager, I have seen gender inequality and sexism way too many times and it is time that we took a stand against it.

So what can we do and who out there has our backs? Who is trying to stand with us as females to make a difference?

Firstly we need to stop the trend of the previous years and listen to what women can really do.

We need to educate the blinkered industry and take a stand against the environment that they work in.

Female artists need to form friendships with other female artists and come together in the same fight.

As a songwriter myself, not many women want to write party anthems or bro country that is so often heard on the radio. Women are more emotional and like to tell a story so surely if women were given more of a shot the quality of songs would deepen?

Is it the quality of the song that people want? Back when Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn were at the height of their careers, their songs had meaning and they were very successful.

In the UK we have a wonderful platform for female artists. This platform ‘Belles and Gals’ celebrates the latest and greatest in the world of female country music with news, reviews, interviews and a new podcast is in the making.

The platform is headed up by a male, Nick Cantwell and this is an exceptional site.

I have seen the growth of this platform over the past couple of years and have so much respect for what he has done.

There is no exclusion of females. It has created a community where woman can finally have a voice and form friendships.

But above all it has put out into the world, with their very successful social media channels, that women are as equal as men.

More men in the industry need to be stepping up to the plate and challenging those that aren’t.

The mentality that the industry has is very closed minded to the possibilities of what women can achieve, however with sites like Belles and Gals we are moving towards a time when females can no longer be ignored.

Only yesterday, Belles and Gals posted the below on social media:

They want the day to come where they no longer exist. Where there is no longer the need to shout for female respect and appreciation because it will be given. When Male and Female artists, musicians, managers, songwriters, label heads, producers, executives and so on are employed, played and hired for their talents. When their gender isn’t a factor.

When we can unite.

When we can finally have a music industry that is collaborative and appreciative of talent and equality.

And with supporters and strong minded women in music, now more than ever, that time is coming and we will take the music industry back and make it equal.

Until next time,

Charlotte

I Can’t Take It Anymore

The header of this blog sounds like it is going to be focused on a subject completely different than what it is actually about.

Maybe that’s why it’s a good song title; it already leads you down a path and makes you believe you know what it is all going to be about, yet when you listen to the lyrics, you can easily begin to change your mind and realise you can relate it to many circumstances.

You may be expecting a depressing, melancholy tune but what you are presented with is an upbeat song with such a great hook that will have you pressing repeat immediately!

For fans of The Angels With Dirty Faces, this is a different sound to what you are used to hearing and definitely in a good way.

As Stuart releases his debut solo single, it is really important that his music and sound stands alone. His vocal identity on I Can’t Take It Anymore is of course, instantly recognisable but the sound and musical arrangement is different and more edgy than that of the Angels sound. It has great crossover appeal whilst keeping to his country roots.

The track has been written, produced and mixed by Stuart which is rare but showcases the quality and skill of his work.

The promotion of the single has been really successful with live performances on both BBC Sheffield and BBC Stoke and exceptional feedback from music executives in both Los Angeles and New York.

2019 will see Stuart perform in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville promoting his solo work which will also include his debut solo EP ‘Outmanned, Never Outgunned’ due for release in November 2018.

A launch party will take at The Maze, Nottingham on Sunday 18th November with support from Tom Wright and Kezia Gill.

Tickets are on sale now from: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/449715

The single is released on Friday 28th September and is available for pre order from iTunes now: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1435340411?ls=1&app=itunes

For all media enquiries and bookings, please direct to:

Charlotte Elizabeth

Manager

Halo Music

+447703 658516

management@stuartlandon.co.uk

http://www.stuartlandon.co.uk

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