Hi.
We've just started our new music company and thought a blog might be a little arrogant (who's going to be interested anyway), and then thought well, it'll be something we can look back at when we're old and grey and it's all gone tits up, won't do anyone any harm, so why not? Also it'll help us remember where it all went wrong, after the Soho hostelries have fully laid claim to the old memory cells once and for all.
So if you're reading this, I'm concerned you don't get out enough. But thanks. And welcome to Repertoire!
So Tim and I have been around the block a few times, and worked at the highest level in the production music or library business for EMI/KPM, BMG, Zomba and the like. But now we're on our own, starting from scratch, ever so slightly anxious at the time it's taking to get up to speed, but we're cool. We've gotta get it right, right?
We can't wait to get out on the road and meet our clients. Our Soho base enables us to bump into all sorts on a daily basis, but it's now time to hit the streets and shout about it. We've got some great catalogue. Inspired started the ball rolling.
I was trying to help my mate Tim Geraghty distribute and promote his fledgling catalogue in the spring of 2007, but I realised this is not a job you can do part time, no matter how small the offering. So I started looking around at other libraries who had good product but no infrastructure for promoting it, and realised if we could cluster a good selection of independent catalogues together under an umbrella brand, then we could compete with the bigger majors whilst everyone maintains the ownership of their individual companies.
Then, when Tim was made redundant by EMI in September, I started sounding him out on the idea and on New Year's Eve, in a drunken phone conversation from Sydney to London (I was in Sydney partying, Tim was in London earlier in the morning, and not yet drunk, I think anyway), he confirmed he was on the team.
So since then we've set about starting up. We went to NAB in Vegas in April and announced the launch to our peers and former colleagues, and signed our first new catalogue, inthegroove. We moved into our office in Soho, and we've been wrestling and twiddling with audio, print, web, dirty windows and empty fire extinguishers ever since.
So, if you're still with me, and you're not my mum, you must be an interested party. So sign up to this blog, and follow our growth. I hope we'll record the milestones, the highs, the lows, the triumphs, the hangovers, and with any luck, it'll continue for many years, and we'll make a go of this thing.
It's all to play for, so let's play. Thanks for reading,
Simon x
