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About Me

I'm just a basic chick [actually that's a lie, I am witty, charming, intelligent, humourous and devastatingly gawjus, but I don't like to boast... lmao]. I have 2 kids; a girl and a boy and married to Ham of Next Generation//Brisk & Ham fame. I'm mostly a music publisher and devote my working life to overseeing and making damn sure as many producers get paid as possible [see below]. People generally scare me in real life [hence my love of MySpace, Facebook, AIM, MSN and email] and I have a pretty crap view of life... I don't believe in any fluffy shit - you are born, you live, you die. No heaven. No hell. No afterlife. Just soil or soot [I will be going for the latter!]. Suffice to say, I don't believe in God! I like horror films, Drum & Bass, songwriting and going to the cinema and pigging out on pick'n'mix [I don't get out much haha]. I hate sport. I love chocolate. I believe in love at first sight. God, what a riveting read... if you're still remotely interested and haven't closed my page yet, you'll see what I do for a living below, what interests I have and I've also provided some equally boring and light entertainment down on the left - so kick back, listen to the sounds, watch some of my favourite moments in time and fuck about feeding my shit fish. Oh...and if you are still reading then I appreciate it.xXx
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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My Interests

Wine
My aquariums
Genealogy
HTML design
DS nintendo
Music
Films
Wine
Spending money
Earning money
Looking gawjus
Wine...
...and if I'm not doing any of these things I don't mind playing with my kids for 10 minutes

I'd like to meet:



S2k Music Showreel:

Who I'd Like To Meet:

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Music:

I am stuck in the 80's and I can't get out! I also love my old skool hardcore 88-93, a few 94/95 tunes too. Plus John Legend, Jodeci, The Cure, Incubus, Creed, Justin Timberlake, Gorillaz, Prince, Lenny K, Alex O'Neal, Mario Wynans, oh there's loads a people, got a million squillion favourite tunes and a real mixed bag, right across the board. I think that above all I like 'songs' not 'artists' and I find that on the whole, albums are crap, but songs are great even when they are by the same artist. Only very few artists can float my boat with an entire album. Probably my favourite album of all time would be Tears for Fears 'Seeds of Love' - only an 8~track but not a single bad tune on there and really emotive, love it.

Television:

Lost
Simply the best programme on television.

Twin Peaks
I am hoping they bring this back to our screens someday soon!

[Insert country here]'s Next Top Model
Nothing like a bit of mindless twoddle to while away the hours

X Factor
I love the audition stages, then I get sadly hooked and have to watch it out

Big Brother
I have no excuse...

Harry Hill's TV Burp
The man is a comedy genius :D

The Apprentice
Erm...

Dragon's Den
If Levi Roots can come out of Dragon's Den, who knows what other wonders await us... so I watch, and patiently wait!

Peter & Katie [no really, I do]
He's a dickhead, but she is great

Fonejacker
Comedy genius!

Heroes:

Sean Pertwee. He is god.
My grandfather god rest his soul
Other heroes include:~
Me like Diamonds
Going to sleep with my teddy
Drum & Bass
Driving thru the countryside
Catching a movie
Mixing sweet and salt popcorn
Indian takeaway from Herb & Spice
Ebay bargains
Summer
Epping Forest
Flea markets
New York City
Disney World
Lipgloss
Doing up my house
Swimming with the kids
Schnuggly saturday nights
Chocolate
A cigarette and a glass of wine
Me not like Sharks
Large spiders
Cockroaches
Chavs
Death/thrash metal
Eggs
Fennel
January
The smell of red bull, bleach, petrol
Waaaaaaaaah
Fashion clones
Beggar friends
MySpace 3rd party biogs...why?!
Losing Ebay bargains
Ikea self service area
Shit sequels
Spam [email not meat]
Spam [meat not email]
TV Adverts
Really spicy food
White spirits
Low rise jeans
Footballers wages
Sport in general
High winds
Terrential rain
Waking up
Ham on Bonkers ROCKS:
Hurley ROCKS:
David Bowie ROCKS:
Judy Garland ROCKS:
Falcor ROCKS:
Pan's Labyrinth ROCKS:
The Muppet Show ROCKS:
Yoda ROCKS:
Komodo Dragons ROCK:

My Blog

New S2k logo baybeeeeeee


Posted by Mel on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:49:00 PST

Dogs on Acid

A mere pup on poppers, but nevertheless, do please read my very first piece for the world famous legend that is Dogs on Acidhttp://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid=509979 &mode=article...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:30:00 PST

Jack Schitt

Many people are at a loss for a response when someone says, "You don't know Jack Schitt."Now you can intellectually handle the situation.Jack is the only son of Awe Schitt and O. Schitt.Awe Schitt, th...
Posted by Mel on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:52:00 PST

Madeleine McCann

Please read this message and pass it on!!!!!!!!!As you are aware my niece, Madeleine, is still missing and I am asking everyone I know to send this as a chain letter i.e. you send it to everyone you k...
Posted by Mel on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:11:00 PST

If I was Lost...

Apart from having Sayid and Locke, a helicopter, or a boat with decent co-ordinates and a great navigator, which you would never fit into a rucksack anyway, I would want desert island items that weren...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:27:00 PST

My favourite Lost theory so far

*****Credit to lost_boy7 at www.IMDB.org****Okay....I am only going to explain it once, because this show makes my head hurt from thinking. All the characters stories are on a loop. They have been run...
Posted by Mel on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:20:00 PST

I've decided...

I need to do Blogs...
Posted by Mel on Sat, 19 May 2007 07:57:00 PST