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What is your background and experience in the music industry? After a career in corporate finance I decided in 2004 to follow my first love - music. Later that year I opened alt.vinyl, an independent retailer focused on the more alternative and underground strains of music. We are still in central...

What is your background and experience in the music industry? I started my career in the music industry as a freelance journalist for The Crack, Clash Magazine, Culture Magazine, The Journal and Evening Chronicle. After a couple of years I became disillusioned working for other people so set up my...

What is your background and experience in the music industry? I have been in the music industry all my life. Following my graduation from University, I was in a band for 2 years touring the UK and Europe, writing and recording and releasing independent singles. When the band broke up, I decided to...

What is your background and experience in the music industry? My background in the music industry is more as an enthusiastic lover of music rather than in any professional sense. Professionally, I have worked on PR campaigns for Evolution festival in the past and also with the Pet Shop Boys on...

What is your background and experience in the music industry? I qualified as a solicitor in 1966. In 1969 I had returned from a year in North America and was in a standard job with George Wimpey, the industrial building company when I saw an advertisement by EMI Records looking for a lawyer. I...

What is your background and experience in the music industry? Like most of us on here, I’ve been passionate about music since I was this high (stretching arm down as low as it will go). So inevitably I started going to gigs and trying to produce new nights featuring bands that weren’t being booked...