RICHARD - I have been working for over 20 years in the music industry in London mainly in A&R or as a consultant for companies including Silverscope, BBC, Music2deal.com, Warner/Chappell, IMP (Sweden), Southside, IMN Publishing, Vocaltech, TVU, Transistor Records (Italy) etc.MICK KARN - As of August 2007 I am managing MICK KARN, arguably the worlds greatest bass player and former member of JAPAN, Rain Tree Crow, JBK, Polytown, Dali's Car to name a few along with credits including KATE BUSH, Gary Numan, Pete Townsend, Joan Armatrading, Midge Ure, Jeff Beck, Ryuichi Sakamoto etc. Mick is currently looking at new projects to become involved with so please contact me if you have an interesting project.PRODUCING, MANAGING - I currently live and work between the UK and the Mediterranean managing, producing, songwriting and writing a couple of books on the music industry including one on Eurovision.MUSIC2DEAL - I still oversee the www.music2deal.com website which has been extremely successful and has the accolade as the FIRST EVER ONLINE A&R facility for ARTISTS, SONGWRITERS, RECORD LABELS, PUBLISHERS, VOCALISTS, MUSICIANS AND MANAGERS. Initial membership is free so why not join up now! Suffice to say www.music2deal was realised long before myspace was ever born. Recent successes include UK hit 'Musicbox' for Anemo and Dutch top 10 and in November 2008 Sony Music came on board. View www.music2deal.com for more info.SONGWRITING - Currently writing tracks with UK songwriter Ian James (UK top 10 hits) on different project and with Kingsley Sage the chief songwriter behind American signed act ANEMO. Also written an album with former Eurovision girl LYNN CHIRCOP and worked with NIKI GRAVINO in early 2008 culminating in some excellent work with Electro God GARY NUMAN. Last year I produced two forthcoming singles for Ann Di Gaetano of SLUR after some work for the radio station XFM. The video below called 'We're Meant To Rock'n'Roll' I co-wrote with Ozzie alternative artist EDEN JAMES that saw the light of day in late 2007 on Eden's second album and was released as a single in early 2008 and i'm told will be re-released with a second video in early 2009. I also wrote about 8 tracks on the new album released in 2009 from Luxembourg artist PATRYCE and the new single "Glued' by Malta artist WHITNEY which is out summer 2009.GARY BELL BAND/TURIN BRAKES - I Spent a month in October 2008 in the UK working, marketing and A&R-ing the new Bell album featuring 3 members of award winning EMI act TURIN BRAKES. The album 'The Future's Not What it Used To Be' will be released in March 2009 preceded by two singles.SOLO DANCE ALBUM - Currently working on a new solo dance album as of November 2008 under the alias of 'Racecar' and looking to put together an 80's style album in late 2009.VIEVE! - VIEVE! is my new project www.myspace.com/vievegirls that showcases four great Maltese female vocalists that sing, dance and perform with sassiness and coolness. Recently one of the tracks written by myself was released in both Germany and the UK on a compilation album.LECTURING/CONSULTING - I occasionally lecture and consult at various Universities and music colleges mainly in the UK whenever asked and i'm always on the lookout for different projects involving music.
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