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About Me

I am Mel Young, agent to the stars, see?
"You are very conscious of trying to restrain yourself from doing things that are wrong, but a lot times you are not successful. A lot of your actions are spontaneous, but you make an effort to be more sensible."

My Interests

I Love: My man, my family, my boys, my girls, music, love, laughter, traveling, gigging, XBox360, Harry Potter, sci-fi, books, movies, karaoke... But mostly I love ROCK. And Simon.
I Hate: Bullshit and the fake 'music business laugh' GRR!!! I'm petrified of pigeons, rodents and big statues/buildings. Specially when they are dramatically lit. I'm not great in places like Trafalga Square or Barcelona.

I'd like to meet:

ARI GOLD!

Music:

Top 10 favourite albums of all time - this will be changed obsessively and regularly. To avoid any awkward questions I'm not including any of the bands I work with...
1. Album Of The Year - Faith No More
2. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
3. The Colour And The Shape - Foo Fighters
4. Superunknown - Soundgarden
5. Soundtrack To A Headrush - Emanuel
6. I Am Hollywood - He Is Legend
7. Quadrophenia - The Who
8. The Wall - Pink Floyd
9. United By Fate - Rival Schools
10. Vheissu - Thrice

Movies:

Back To The Future, Harry Potter, Butterfly Effect, Frequency, When Harry Met Sally, Star Wars, Groundhog Day, Coming To America (jeh-jeh!) Twelve Monkeys, Die Hard, Wayne's World, Dumb & Dumber, It's A Wonderful Life, The Philadelphia Story...

Television:

Lost, Heroes, Life On Mars, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, 24, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, I'm Alan Partridge, America's Next Top Model, The Office, Blackadder, anything on Discovery, anything about Egypt. In a nutshell: comedy, cookery, history.

Books:

Harry Potter, The Time-Traveller's Wife, His Dark Materials, anything by David Sedaris, Dear Boy: Keith Moon, Briget Jones, Jane Austen, The Dirt, Elvis biogs... I haven't read a good book in aaages actually. Book club anyone?

Heroes:

Stephen Fry, Bill Hicks, Ari Gold, Keith Moon, Elvis, Dumbledore and...

My Blog

On the road with FATA. Day one - "Yeah, Berlin Wall!"

Berlin, Kato Got up at 5.30am having had very little sleep, and was on my way to Berlin by 8.30. My fear of flying is starting to be a little more controllable. I count to 60 or 100 on take-off, which...
Posted by Mel Young on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:19:00 PST

Day 2 - "Things To Do In Pig-Town"

Schwienfurt, Alter Staffbhf Sleeping on a tour bus really takes some getting used to. I get up around 11am, jump in the venue shower and we all head off to try to find something resembling civilisatio...
Posted by Mel Young on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST

Day 3 - "Can I change my goulash to the Steak Party?"

Prague, Rock Cafe I'm starting to get the hang of this "road" business! I wake up at 11.30am, and we're lost on the outskirts of Prague. It looks bleak as fuck. We laugh at burnt-out cars, and ...
Posted by Mel Young on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:14:00 PST

Gooooood times

I love that last blog I wrote about SXSW, which is why I've been hesitant to write another.Mainly I love it because six months down the line I'm still in the same place mentally and I stand by it 100%...
Posted by Mel Young on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:37:00 PST

Hell Yes!

Did I mention I'm going to New York next week.It's going to be a crazy crazy week. I have meetings line-up every waking hour, and bands to see when I should be sleeping... It's going to be hardcore, f...
Posted by Mel Young on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST

Victory Tour 200666

Dear Blog, forgive me... it's been a while!Where to begin? The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a haze involving The Audition, The Sleeping (my new friends, check them out, they're amazing!!), ...
Posted by Mel Young on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:24:00 PST

Download, K! party, theAudition

Thursday 8th JuneI arrived back in London tanned, relaxed and ready to rock. Just as well because the party started the moment I hit British soil. theAudition, The Scare and Gay For Johnny Depp were a...
Posted by Mel Young on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:38:00 PST

So I'm on holiday for 2 weeks...

Ish.My mum and I are going to France for a few a days to to be honest I'm a little apprehensive. When you've been on the go as much as I have recently, the thought of suddenly topping is petrifying.. ...
Posted by Mel Young on Sat, 27 May 2006 07:50:00 PST

There are Canadians in my house!

Hotter than the sun band You Say Party! We Say Die! arrived yesterday and after a triumphant sold-out debut UK show, have set up camp in my house. Hotel Mel is open for business :) I like it! Th...
Posted by Mel Young on Fri, 19 May 2006 09:43:00 PST

Bamboozle - the aftermath

So I'm back. And surpringly, in one piece. I'm simultaneously dissapointed and impressed with myself by this fact.. However I did discover these ground-breaking equations... Jetlag + 1 vodka = messy...
Posted by Mel Young on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:17:00 PST