Behind the Music Business Podcast

Here is one of my favourite of all the episodes that I have done of this podcast. A chat with artist and producer manager Ellie Giles.

Ellie has had an amazing career in A&R and management for the best part of 20 years and set up her company Step Management in 2018.
This was an amazing chat about the creative side of the business, about A&R in general and as a female in the industry and Ellie was amazingly honest and candid about how she operates and what she looks for in the business.

Check out all her links below to find out more about her roster and do make sure to listen to Erland Coopers releases from this year, they are incredible.

Get in touch with Ellie/Step Music Management via:
https://www.stepmusicmanagement.com/
https://www.instagram.com/stepmusicmanagement/
https://www.facebook.com/stepmusicmanagement

Get in touch with me via:
Website - www.dannychampion.co.uk
DC Music Publishing - www.dcmusicpublishing.co.uk
DC Music Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dcmusicpublishing/
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Lucie is the General Manager and Chief Policy Officer of the Music Publishers Association (MPA). The MPA represents over 95% of the UK’s song rights, through its membership of over 200 music publishers, ranging from iconic Independents to the international Major Publishers. Prior to the MPA, Lucie was the CEO of performing artists’ collective, the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC). Lucie has over 17 years’ experience in the music business, including time at PRS for Music in digital licencing and within Indie music publishing companies. She also ran her own rights-management company, operating on both sides of the negotiating table for clients including Deezer, eMusic, Sony/SYCO and The BRIT Awards, amongst others. She is a lead copyright negotiator, specialising in multi-territory, digital rights.
Lucie is a staunch advocate of equal opportunities, human rights and inclusivity, believing in music and arts as catalysts for change and emancipation.
Lucie is also on the management team of the Palestine Music Expo, the first international music conference and showcase event, held in the Occupied Territories.

I am really grateful that Lucie found time in her very busy schedule to talk to me for the podcast. It was a very insightful and informative conversation. I hope you enjoy it.

Get in touch with the MPA via:
https://mpaonline.org.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/thempaonline/
https://twitter.com/the_MPA
https://www.facebook.com/MusicPublishersAssociation/?ref=bookmarks
MPA on Spotify 

Get in touch with me via:
Website - www.dannychampion.co.uk
DC Music Publishing - www.dcmusicpublishing.co.uk
DC Music Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dcmusicpublishing/
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Today (August 13th 2021) is my birthday and to celebrate I am doing the most self indulgent thing I could think of and releasing an episode of my podcast that is about me :) I found it very hard to do and it is thankfully MUCH shorter than the rest of the episodes.

If you would like to know more about me or if you think that I could help you out in a professional capacity please get in touch via the email address [email protected] or go to my website www.dannychampion.co.uk and fill out the contact form.

Find me on social medias well:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dcmusicpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DCmusicbusiness
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannychampion/

The big 6-0. 60 episodes and counting. To some that probably means very little but I’m pretty proud that I have got here all on my own.
This episode is with yet another Uni of Hertfordshire alumni. Graham was part of the group that I was involved with at Uni. We had a wonderful time and have remained firm friends 10+ years on from when we graduated.
Graham is now one of the regional Officers (for London) at the Musicians Union. So if you are based around the capital and have an issue and are a member then he will be your go to guy.
It was great to talk to him about the amazing work that the MU does, especially during this rather taxing times for musicians. As well as talking to him about his journey to where he is and what got him here.
I hope you enjoy it.

Musicians Union links

https://musiciansunion.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Musicians.Union
https://twitter.com/WeAreTheMU
https://www.instagram.com/wearethemu/
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMusiciansUnion
Musicians Union on spotify 

Get in touch with me via:

Website - www.dannychampion.co.uk
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

It’s already July 2021!!! Doesn’t time fly when you’re in a pandemic. This weeks conversation, like last week, focuses on the world of sync. However this time around from a slightly different point of view.
Sergio Pimental has worked around music and computer games for as long as I have known him and it would great chatting with him and finding more about this area of the business and his journey through it.

We talk about his beginnings and his time at Sony Games and Activision as well as his foray away from games when he joined the team and Big Sync Music (music supervision company owned by Unilever) and Ninja Tunes and a little bit about his side business as a personal trainer.

His new company Synchronicity is just being launched so look out for links to be added as soon as they are available.

It was a long time in the making this chat, I hope you enjoy it.

https://twitter.com/sergiobpimentel
https://www.instagram.com/serginhop

Get in touch with me via:

Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Here is another chat about all things music publishing and sync for your ear holes. I know James from way back in 2009 when he first joined Sony Music Publishing and he was there through till 2020 (including the EMI buyout) when he left to set up his own thing ‘Rocket Science Music’.

It was great to catch up with James and find out his motivations for leaving the role at the largest music publisher on the planet to go at it alone and what its like as a freelancer/business owner in the world that he operates in at the moment. Links to his stuff below.

https://www.rocketsciencemusic.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rocketsciencemusicltd/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescooper7/
https://twitter.com/mstrsqrl

Get in touch with me via:

Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

As we enter into the summer of 2021 I have the privilege to release this great chat with guitarist and composer Charlotte Hatherley. This episode was a long time in the making as our chat was originally scheduled for April 2020 but due to all thing global pandemic it was pushed back to earlier this year.

You might know Charlotte from her time in Ash in the late 90s and early 2000s, or from her time as touring guitar player for acts such as KT Tunstall and Bat for Lashes. You might also know here for all the solo records she has put out independently as well as her more recent work composing film scores. We talk about it all as well as spend some time discussion the current state of women in the music business.

It was an amazing opportunity to speak to her, I can’t thank her enough for giving me the time to have this conversation. I hope you like listening to it.

https://www.charlottehatherley.com/
https://www.lelandoriginals.com/composers/charlottehatherley
https://twitter.com/CHatherley79
https://www.instagram.com/charlottehatherley/

Get in touch with me via:
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Here is another chat with a Uni of Hertfordshire alumni and this is the first chance I have had to talk to someone about the world of PR.

Jen has been at Chuff Media for 10 years now and has grown with the business. It was lovely to catch up with her and to talk about how she got into the world of PR and what it takes to excel in that world.

Apologies for the audio quality here. Had a few technical difficulties.

Useful Links:
https://www.instagram.com/jentwistle17/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/jentwistle17
https://chuffmedia.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chuffmedia/
https://www.instagram.com/chuffmediapr/?hl=en

Get in touch with me via:
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Marc Brown and his team reached out to me last year and very kindly asked me to feature in their ‘How we listen’ feature (link below) and it was great having him on the pod as a guest to return the favour.

Marc’s career has taken him across many countries and through a number of interesting roles starting in PR and promotion and now he is firmly focused on all things digital and his start up Byta is doing some really interesting things that make the lives of small indie labels and publishers much much easier.

Useful links:
https://byta.com/
https://www.instagram.com/BytaLtd/
https://twitter.com/BytaLtd
https://byta.com/howwelisten/
https://byta.com/howwelisten/interview/dan-champion/

Get in touch with me via:
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/

Claire Rose is the outreach manager for the South West region for PRS for Music. She is an amazing asset to have (as are all the outreach managers across the UK who help out new PRS members as well as those who are thinking about joining).

We spoke over Zoom (like we all do at time for recording) and chatted about her role, the PRS in general, what new songwriters should be doing and where things are going in the future.

Below are links to various things mentioned in the episode.
https://www.prsformusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/claireeleanor21
https://www.instagram.com/womeninctrl
https://linktr.ee/Womaninctrl

Get in touch with me via:
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dannychampion
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/danmchampion/