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<strong>29.08.14</strong> Music Week 47<br />
RUN-OFF GROOVE<br />
Been snapped with the Bay City Rollers on your iPhone? Got photographic proof of your promotions chief slaying the<br />
karaoke machine? Swimming the Bristol Channel for charity and want the industry to rally round? Tell us all about it.<br />
And we’ll tell everyone else. Send your out-of-hours snaps and stories to runoffgroove@intentmedia.co.uk<br />
qTALENTED BRITS<br />
Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro ended Ed Sheeran’s Albums Chart reign at the weekend, selling well over 48,000 copies of their debut album Stars to claim the No.1 spot as their own. The Sycosigned<br />
group wasted no time in popping open the bubbly with media wizard Simon Cowell to celebrate the success.<br />
KEY SONGS<br />
IN THE LIFE OF<br />
ANDY MCQUEEN<br />
Chairman,<br />
Notting Hill<br />
Music Group<br />
tupq<br />
What was the first record you<br />
remember buying?<br />
Slade Alive - sounded great<br />
in 1972, although I appear to<br />
have mislaid the silver top hat<br />
in the interim.<br />
t COUNTRY COMRADES<br />
The Agency Group made a big step<br />
forward in its global expansion<br />
earlier this month with the<br />
acquisition of Nashville’s famous<br />
Bobby Roberts company. It was<br />
smiles all around once the deal<br />
was done. “We are delighted and<br />
honoured to carry on the goodwill<br />
and proud legacy built by the<br />
incomparable Bobby Roberts and<br />
to welcome a group of talented<br />
agents,” said The Agency Group<br />
CEO Gavin O’Reilly. Pictured to<br />
the left [L-R] are booking agent<br />
Travis James, Gavin O’Reilly and<br />
Bobby Roberts, and Nick Meinema<br />
and Lance Roberts, who will lead<br />
the Nashville operation. Photo:<br />
Jonathan Kingsbury.<br />
Which song was<br />
(or would be) the first dance<br />
at your wedding?<br />
$1,000 Wedding by<br />
Gram Parsons.<br />
Which track would you like<br />
played at your funeral?<br />
Final Taxi by Wreckless Eric.<br />
What’s your karaoke speciality?<br />
Daydream Believer by<br />
The Monkees.<br />
What was the best artist<br />
meeting of your life?<br />
A close tie between BB King<br />
and Johnny Cash (pictured).<br />
u WRITERS ON TOUR<br />
Having first met in 1983 when they<br />
both worked for Disco Mix Club,<br />
Notting Hill Music’s John Saunderson<br />
and TG Management and Publishing’s<br />
John Aagaard have toyed with the<br />
idea of hosting a joint writing camp<br />
for their respective rosters for a<br />
couple of years now. Plans were<br />
finally put into place at Notting Hill’s<br />
summer party this year and the two<br />
outfits ended up taking a collective<br />
of 21 songwriters and producers to<br />
Denmark’s Lundgaard studio from<br />
15 - 20 August. Working in seven<br />
studios in teams of three for four days,<br />
taking briefs from A&Rs across the<br />
world, the group managed to conjure<br />
a whopping 33 songs for artists in the<br />
UK, US, Germany, France, Spain and<br />
Sweden. Not bad at all.<br />
Recommend a track<br />
Music Week readers may<br />
not have heard?<br />
Bleach Blood by London In<br />
The Rain.<br />
What’s your favourite single/<br />
track of all time?<br />
Either Funeral For A Friend -<br />
Into Oblivion, or Dizzee Rascal’s<br />
Bonkers, depending on what<br />
mood I’m in.
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