Day: 19 April 2015

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Joel De’ath (Label Manager, Sony Records)

Joel De’ath is the label manager of Music for Nations, a company that had its heydays in the 1980s and 1990s with early signings like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth.

Music for Nations was shut down in the early 2000s and all of its catalogue relocated. It was only a few years ago that Sony decided to resurrect the label, which led to Joel joining the company. It is now a frontline label that signs new acts in addition to managing a huge heritage catalogue.

Read about Joel’s talk at Southampton Solent University: In conversation with Joel De’ath from Sony’s label Music for Nations

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Lou Cooper (Head of Albums, Toolroom Records)

Lou Cooper is Southampton Solent University’s BA (Hons) Popular Music Journalism graduate. She has worked at Three Six Zero’s London office’s music department as a label assistant on Deadmau5, Calvin Harris, Sasha & Steve Angello’s (Swedish House Mafia) labels.

After that, she worked as a freelancer at her own label consultancy business and ended up label managing John Dahlback’s label ‘Mutants’ where she was securing radio placement & interviews on Radio 1, features for online & print press, writing press releases and promoting each release. After a successful five months running ‘Mutants’ she took on the role of Album Co-ordinator at Toolroom and now manages the Albums team.

Read: Graduate Lou Cooper charts her journey to managing albums at Toolroom Records

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Steve Ager (radio plugger)

Steve Ager has been a top radio plugger for over twenty years, including more than a decade in charge of radio promotions at major record labels.

In 1997, Steve produced a single for Trickbaby and signed them to a five album deal with BMG. Three albums later, they have now sold over three million units to the Indian worldwide Diaspora. Trickbaby have also re-mixed artists including Kylie Minogue, Chingy, Duran Duran, Jamelia and Robbie Williams. He spent 11 years working as a Radio Promotions Manager for major labels such as Island, MCA/Geffen and Arista, successfully plugging some of the world’s biggest selling acts such as Nirvana, Guns N Roses, U2, The Christians, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Cher, Aretha Franklin, The Cult, House Of Pain, The Charlatans, and Spinal Tap.

In 2003, Steve set up Chachaman PR and now successfully promotes a roster of cool acts to radio and TV which includes Gogol Bordello, The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly, Joe Gideon and Bedouin Soundclash.