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Black Sheep links with Portrush Open Surf Festival party
By Mark Devlin | 08 March 2010
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Black Sheep Hotspots
Black Sheep Mag lands in Northern Ireland on Saturday 10th April, for an event of epic proportions. We're staging our N.I regional Launch Party in conjunction with the official after-party for the Portrush Open Surf Festival, which is taking place throughout the preceding week.
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It's his looks. It's his voice. Bluey Robinson, who is half-Swedish, half-Trinidadian by birth - yet a Londoner by nature - truly illustrates himself beyond the usual pop package, with an unmissable presence. 21-year-old singer/ songwriter Bluey has serenaded the West End as Simba in The Lion King, and showcased…
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Anita Maisuria
| Job Title | Promoter/ Plugger |
| Company | Soul 2 Streets |
By Mark Devlin | 05 March 2010
Published in:
The Good Shepherds
First job within the music industry - and how you got it?
This is actually my first job in the music biz. I came across Soul 2 Streets via a producer who I befriended through Myspace. I'd just graduated from University and was looking to put my degree to use…
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London rapper Kinetik dropped his debut album, The Kinesis Thesis, to great critical acclaim last year, with many commentators stating that its incisive lyrics and solid beats revived the essence of the 90s golden era in hip hop. Among the fans were DITC's producer Diamond D, who hit Kinetik…
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I am sat in the pretentious Soho House. Far too pretentious for the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae, who joins me, (a day short of her 31st birthday), at a table in the restaurant.
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Philadelphia is the birth home of classically trained vocalist RES, who signed to MCA Records in 1999, and got christened to the urban world with her vocals dipping on albums by GZA plus Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, followed by later work with Nas and Madlib.
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Anton Hiscock
| Job Title | Owner/Director |
| Company | Trailer Media |
By Richard Bamford | 19 February 2010
Published in:
The Good Shepherds
First job within the industry - and how you got it?I fell into a job as press officer, and subsequently head of press at Main Source Promotions back in the early 1990's. My sister and a friend ran the business and I'd shattered my back working in the film business…
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So the video for the updated version of 'We Are The World' makes for some interesting viewing. Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion in the same room as Snoop Dogg and DMX is always an occasion. One of the singers is wearing a jacket seemingly borrowed from Dr. Evil in the…
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East coast native Preach Jacobs is an MC/ journalist hailing from Columbia, South Carolina, who (for me) re-ignites the 90s so-called lost genre of epic hip hop - a sound true to rhyming and timeless instrumental transportation. With the new album 'Maple St. Sessions' as evidence, he oozes influences from…
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Thad Baron
| Job Title | Managing Director |
| Company | Big Promo |
By Mark Devlin | 11 February 2010
Published in:
The Good Shepherds
First job within the music industry - and how you got it?
The first job I ever got in the music industry was promoting All Saints' cover of Atlantic Starr's 'Silver Shadow' for my mate Simon Aldridge, who was an A&R manager at ZTT Records
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