About Me
Media
"Good enough" just isn't good enough for us
Air is a full service PR agency that offers expertise in all areas of media communication. We have generated a reputation for being the most effective PR tool available to today's high price music industry.
Our team of highly skilled professionals, driven by a rampant passion for music, provides a uniquely open, honest and ethical service that boasts proven success in transforming common PR challenges into lucrative assets.
We specialise in tailoring campaigns to suit our clients' needs and will execute each project with the dedication it deserves.
Having built artists like Jamie Cullum up from a relatively unknown talent into a multi-platinum modern jazz legend, we devise and execute PR strategies for up and coming talent.
We will work day and night to push small non-pop projects into the mainstream media through our established contacts with senior editors of national newspapers and the producers responsible for the nation's TV and radio output. Running parallel to national coverage we ochestrate extensive regional campaigns, making sure that your campaign sustains.
Air media Successes:
BBC Jazz Awards (since 2001)
Cheltenham International Jazz Festival
HEM (EMI)
Madeleine Peyroux (Universal Music)
Stacey Kent (Candid Records)
Soweto Kinch (Dune Records)
Chris Bowden (Ninja Tune)
Acoustic Ladyland (Babel Records)
Colin Steele (Caber Music)
Clare Teal (Candid Records)
Jazz Jamaica Allstars (Dune Records)
Alan Barnes (Specific Records)
Toni Kofi (Specific Records)
Gwyneth Herbert (Universal Music)
Mina Agossi (Candid Records)
Noise 4 (Candid Records)
Jazz Aid Event (The Sands Venue)
Lee John (Candid Records)
Mishka Adams (Candid Records)
Kyle Eastwood (Candid Records)
Trio AAB (Caber Music)
Denys Baptiste (Dune Records)
Jacqui Dankworth (Candid Records)
Chris Barber
Pizza Express Jazz Club
Hitsch Lounge Riot (Club Night)
David Redfern (Photographer)
Alyn Shipton (Author)
Air is delighted to have been re-comissioned to work on the BBC Jazz Awards for the fifth successive year.
Tours
Air Tours is an innovative live music agency. The agency represents the cream of today's jazz musicians, cutting edge innovators and mainstream established artists.
With an extensive network of contacts both in the UK and abroad, we book for emerging new talents such as Finn Peters, Tom Arthurs and Led Bib as well as more established artists including Tim Garland and Anita Wardell. Air Tours also works with international artists wanting to tour the UK and Europe.
If you are a promoter or events organiser and require information regarding putting an event together or booking an artist, please do contact one of our agents.
Our current roster includes:
Anita Wardell
Tom Arthurs
Christine Tobin
Finn Peters
Ingrid Laubrock
Natalie Williams
Paul Booth Quintet
Partisans
Tim Garland
Michael Roach
Radio.String.Quartet.Vienna
Chihiro Yamanaka
Empirical
We have also worked with:
Acoustic Triangle
Juliet Kelly
Led Bib
Kyle Eastwood
James Taylor Quartet
Julia Biel
Lleuwen Steffan
Richard Fairhurst
Ambulance featuring Eddie Henderson
Jacqui Dankworth
Chris Bowden
Dave O’Higgins & The Jazzcotech Dancers
Jamie Cullum
As Meninas featuring Monica Vasconcelos
Alex Wilson
Joe Lee Wilson with Kirk Lightsey
Dimitrios Vassilakis’ Daedalus Project
Cameron Pierre
Clare Teal
Olga Konkova
John Rae’s Celtic Feet
Tony Remy
Jean Toussaint & Nazaire
Management
Air Management is fronted by Marc Connor. A business graduate of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Marc has worked with artists such as Gabrielle, Mark Morrison, All Saints, Shane MacGowan and most recently the multi platinum selling Jamie Cullum. Having worked extensively in distribution, label management, PR, concert booking, and artist management in a hugely successful career spanning over a decade. Marc was responsible for launching Jamie Cullum from an unknown talent with huge potential to a Grammy nominated superstar whose album Twentysomething has now sold over four million copies.
We believe the internet is the most important promotion tool you can use to your full advantage, whether you are promoting a current artist or establishing one from scratch. We dedicate a lot of time making sure that our artists are on all the relevant social networks such as Myspace, Facebook and Bebo. We always put the fans first and make sure they are updated constantly, making them feel like a part of the team.
Air Management take a very pro-active approach to areas of the business that are not typically pursued by artist management (e.g. new media, volunteer networks, Affinity schemes, co-branding/sponsorship). Synchronisation of music in film, television, games and advertising is something we believe is an integral part of an artists campaign in today's social media climate. Our management team work very closely with the sync teams at the major labels and publishers, and have developed personal relationships with key music supervisors and creatives to push the boundaries of synchronisation and maximise our artists exposure.
Marc considers his management style as one of partnership, and believes his greatest feat with Jamie is helping establish his live reputation around the world. From Norway to new Zealand Jamie's concerts always sell out and his band is equally at home gracing the stages of rock festivals like Glastonbury and Coachella as it is headlining the Newport or North Sea Jazz Festivals.
