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The Good Shepherds
Anita Maisuria
| Job Title | Promoter/ Plugger |
| Company | Soul 2 Streets |
By Mark Devlin | 05 March 2010
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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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Anton Hiscock
| Job Title | Owner/Director |
| Company | Trailer Media |
By Richard Bamford | 19 February 2010
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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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Thad Baron
| Job Title | Managing Director |
| Company | Big Promo |
By Mark Devlin | 11 February 2010
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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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Peanut Butter Wolf
| Job Title | C.E.O |
| Company | Stones Throw Records |
By Richard Bamford | 22 September 2009
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First job within the industry - and how you got it?
My first job in the industry was at a record store called Star Records. That was where I started buying all my records at the age of 9 and even as young kids, my buddy Steve (AKA Baron Zen)…
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Lisa Lindahl
| Job Title | Head of European Entertainment Marketing |
| Company | Puma |
By Joanna Chaundy | 20 August 2009
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First job within the music industry - and how you got it?My first proper job in the music industry was at an Independent pr company. I had never done pr before, but had studied marketing and advertising so knew the basics of it. I loved it right from the start.…
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Treble T
| Job Title | DJ, Broadcaster & Promoter |
| Company | Rampage |
By Joanna Chaundy | 22 July 2009
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First job within the music industry - and how you got it?My first job in the music was in a recording studio as a tape op (dog's body) I used to record mad guitar bands and indie groups and taught myself how to use everything for about four years. I…
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Jasmine Dotiwala
| Job Title | Head of MTV Base |
| Company | MTV |
By Richard Bamford | 30 June 2009
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First job within the music industry - and how you got it?Straight out of University I got a job as a runner for a production company called Planet 24. They made a breakfast TV show called 'The Big Breakfast'. Planet 24 also made a show called 'The Word' which was…
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Hugo Turquet
| Job Title | A&R Manager |
| Company | Chrysalis Music |
By Richard Bamford | 25 June 2009
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First job within the music industry - and how you got it?I worked for The Echo Label doing work experience.
How did you work your way up to where you are?Lots of hard work; doing everything that was asked of me and then some.
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Indy Hunjan
| Job Title | CEO |
| Company | Kala Phool LTD |
By Richard Bamford | 19 June 2009
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First job within the industry - and how you got it?I set up my own job by establishing my company, Kala Phool, many years ago. It came directly from the lack of opportunities for the kind of work I wanted to do. I established Kala Phool as a way of…
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Paul Jonas
| Job Title | Co-Owner and Label Manager |
| Company | Tru Thoughts |
By Richard Bamford | 17 June 2009
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First job within the industry - and how you got it?I did a philosophy and sociology degree and completed it with a 35,000 word thesis on ”Prohibition as an ineffective social policy” and so thought I would go into drug counseling. I moved to Brighton and thought I would follow…
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