My Musical Background:
I grew up around the music business with my old man being a record plugger and spent my weekends and school holidays hanging out at radio stations, record companies and roadshow, so I got a bit hooked on life in the industry wanted to follow in dad's footsteps when 'I grew up'.
At 16, when I left school I discovered the wonderful world of raving and all that came with it. Having spent most of my weekends in the tunnel at Labyrinth [Dalston Lane] I went from innocent 80's chicklet to hardened jungirl in a matter of weeks, although spending half my week coming down and the other half getting ready for the coming weekend hardly put me in good stead for an alert, employable character. So although I spent a while working the odd job, I decided I didn't want to get up at 6.45am, get on a train, go to work for somebody else and basically lead a shit, mundane life, so I got myself a little studio set up instead and just got into the music. Eventually I got far too skint doing this and got involved with a local music company, looking after a boy band from East Ham, booking and chaperoning gigs, dealing with the merchandise and fanbase and generally having a laugh. Unfortunately it went tits up when the management company spunked over £100k on... erm... a video in L.A. for an unsigned band... twats. Job done. Move on.
I carried on dabbling in the music and started producing a bit of hardcore, still buzzing hard at the weekends, I started networking and set up a label and went to work for Stage 1000. My label got to release 5 before I got a bit fed up of making hardcore [which was waaay too happy for me] and put all my energy into learning about music publishing and label/artist management in 1998. I also did some journalism work for Dream Magazine throughout 1999 [who remembers them?!] and did some mad interviews with some mad people.
As time went on and UK Garage became very popular commercially, I turned my hand to making tunes again. I slipped away from Stage One temporarily and got busy with the UKG crew, getting myself a job with Paul Nelson [Raindance/brother of Slipmatt] and Timi Ram Jam at The Temple nightclub [Tottenham, now demolished]. They put me in charge of booking DJ's with the assistance of Xtreme Talent and the Dreem Teem office and marketing clubnights at The Temple and his other clubs The Aquarium and Grace in the Old Kent Road. Whilst I loved this job and it's location next to the bagel shop [yum], once they brought in 'the new guy' things flopped for me, cos I didn't get on with 'the new guy' so I left. And as luck would have it, struck up new heights with Stage One once again, whilst getting busy writing UKG tunes and having notable underground success with 3 Play's 'Baby Mother'. So I was back chaperoning again, booking and taking 3 Play round the country and to Ayia Napa and after stupidly turning down Locked On, eventually signed to Daniel Bedingfield's original label DND. But after a time, as UK Garage started to become unpopular with the commerical market following unsociable behaviour [LOL] I threw myself hard into publishing once again. I'm still writing the odd tune here and there when I get time, some things never leave you eh. Anyway here I still am - buzz free, 2 kids up and loving every minute. Stage One has now become S2k as we move with the times and you can read about what we do below...
About S2k:
S2k [formerly known as Stage 1000] is an independent publishing company. Alongside Laura, we basically collect publishing money [royalties]. If you've had any tunes released on singles or albums or had your music played on radio, television or computer games [anywhere in the world] then you need to hit me up. We can collect your money for you. If you are unsure whether or not you are due any royalties but feel that you might be, just ask! We can collect UK and foreign royalties for albums and single releases on other labels for up to 6 years previous and for radio play for the last 3 years previous. We are always happy to expand and our books are open to take on new artists. If you are previously unpublished, looking to change publisher, looking for an administrator for your existing or new publishing company or just looking for a one-off deal to be able to collect radio play or third party licensing where you know you are owed royalties, please contact me through this page in the first instance.
You can contact me any time, I'm usually on AIM [message me if you want my screen name], all hours, easy to get in touch with, will answer everyone. I'm hard working but easy going, with a client list to be proud of and on the up.
Our esteemed publishing clients - big ups y'all...
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