Gigomi with Dave Holley
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Are you serious about turning your talent for making music into a career?
I’m Dave Holley, I’ve worked in the music industry for 30+ years. I have a network of friends (and friends of friends) who have built successful careers as artists or helped develop the careers of many of the biggest UK names on the world music scene. There is not much that they don’t know between them.
When added together, this network has hundreds, if not thousands, of years of experience. If you are serious about breaking into the music industry & then building a long term career you couldn’t hope for a better team of advisors.
I started gigomi to share the knowledge, insights & advice of this network with you.
Each week I talk with an artist or a music industry executive about their experience of:
How the music industry really works, and:
What you must do to give yourself the best chance of breaking into itTo make a good living And Build a good lifeWhile creating the fantastic music you were put on earth to create
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Episodes
#17 Nick Halkes
June 22, 2022 07:13 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBToday's guest is Nick Halkes who knows an awful lot about the music industry - particularly most things dance related - from many different points of view. He's a creative - he's had charts hits as an artist and a writer. He's an A&R - most famously signing The Prodigy. He runs business - he founded Positiva and took it to great success. He's a manager. He's a lecturer. He's a DJ. He's a radio presenter. And he's got some great advice for people coming into the industry. Hosted on Acast. Se...
#16 Claire Cordeaux & Liam Hennessy
March 17, 2022 07:26 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBIn today's episode Dave has not 1 but 2 guests to talk about some of the stresses and strains that can be peculiar to a musician's life, what you can do to keep an eye on them and how to look after yourself physically and mentally. Claire Cordeaux joins us from BAPAM (which stands for the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) whose mission it is to provide information and training to prevent poor health, provide care when things go wrong, support healthy careers and aid recovery...
#15 Ian Anderson
February 24, 2022 07:56 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBToday’s guest is Ian Anderson, the driving force behind rock band Jethro Tull. Ian formed Jethro Tull in 1967 and this year – 55 years later - they released their 22nd studio album, The Zealot Game, which hit the Top 10 in the UK and beyond. Ian has always stood out. His instrument of choice is unusually the flute, which he is in the habit of playing while standing on one leg. Jethro Tull have had huge success with multiple gold and platinum albums that topped the charts on both sides o...
#14 Keith Harris OBE
February 15, 2022 10:29 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBToday's guest is Keith Harris, OBE. Keith began his career as a song plugger, getting records played on the radio at Translantic Records and EMI, where he became General Manager of Motown in the UK. It was doing that job that he met Stevie Wonder who asked Keith to be part of his management team - which he continues to be to this day. Alongside his management career, Keith lectured on the music business as a Senior Fellow at the University Of Westminsterand has led many industry organisatio...
#13 Ayla Owen
February 07, 2022 09:45 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBToday's guest is Ayla Owen. Ayla is one of the UK's most experienced and successful music supervisors, having set up and led the music division of advertsising agency BBH, founded themostradicalist blog and co-Chaired The UK and European Guild of Music Supervisors. In recent years, Ayla has crossed the line into Synch. She oversees the European Synch and Creative Services teams at Warner Chappell and now spends a lot of time pitching to music supervisors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
#12 Sara Lord
February 01, 2022 16:57 - 47 minutes - 44 MBToday's guest is Sara Lord. In her job as SVP at Concord Music Publishing, she oversees Synch teams around the world. Sara's done an awful lot of things in the music industry. She managed Top Loader, Reef and Tom Baxter, taking Top Loader, in particular, to huge success. But throughout her career, Sara has had a close connection to that sweet spot where audio meets video, music meets film. She started in the video department at Sony, helping create videos to promote singles. She went on t...
#11 Paul Franklin
January 25, 2022 07:07 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBToday's episode is about the live side of the music industry. My guest is Paul Franklin. Paul is one of the leading live agents in the world. He started his career at Primary Talent, moved to Helter Skelter where he represented Amy Winehouse and helped guide her career. For the last decade or so he has been at CAA. Paul has looked after so many huge acts including James Bay, McFly, Busted, Corinne Bailey Rae, Laura Mvula and Yungblud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
#10 Al Schmitt
January 11, 2022 18:13 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBToday's guest is the late, legendary American recording engineer and record producer Al Schmitt. He began hanging around record studios in the 1930s (one of his first jobs was working with Duke Ellington) and he continued working in them as engineer or producer until the 2020s. The roll call of musicians he's worked with is mind-blowing: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Madonna, Elvis Costello & Michael Jackson to name but a few...
#9 Ian Ramage
December 23, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBToday's guest is Ian Ramage. Ian is one of a kind, a real industry all rounder, with more than 30 years experience helping the careers of The Cure, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Keane, Richard Hawley and many more artists. Unusually, he has worked in both Marketing and A&R and on the publishing and records sides of the business. His current role - as Head Of Repetoire & Marketing at BMG - draws on all of this experince. Ian has also lectured on the Music Business & Ent...
#8 Miles Leonard
December 10, 2021 08:04 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBMiles Leonard started his working life as a plumber. He changed out of his overalls to go for a job interview with Chrysalis Records. Within weeks he’d signed The Verve who went on to become one of the UK’s biggest acts of the nineties. Miles career also exploded. He climbed to the top of the A&R ladder at Parlophone, eventually becoming Chairman of the label as well as President of Virgin Records and Chairman of Warner Brothers. He has been heavily involved in the careers of Kylie Minogu...
#7 Ian Dench
December 01, 2021 06:40 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBIt's very rare that you come across somebody who has been a significant artist & songwriter and spent time inside the music industry machine developing other careers. Ian Dench is one of the very few to have that experience which makes his perspective on how the industry works and what you need to focus on to break into it extremely valuable. And it's not been plain saling all the way. Ian's first professional band looked good for success but after 8 years of trying and 2 record deals late...
#6 Cliff Fluet
November 03, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBCliff Fluet is one of the most clued-up people about the technology that is revolutionising the music industry. A lawyer by trade at Lewis Silkin, he specialises in helping clients license music rights & develop new business models to generate more ££ for those rights. Cliff is one of the best-known faces of the industry, he sits on the board of Help Musicians UK & is Chair of the Ivors Academy Trust. In this episode, Cliff talks about: Artifical Intelligence More here Blockchain More...
#5 Ann Harrison
October 13, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBAnn Harrison is one of the most experienced, respected and sought after lawyers in the music industry and is particularly known for her work on behalf of artists. When I decided to start gigomi, hers was one of the first names on my list of people to ask onto the podcast. She represents musicians from all genres and at all stages of their careers from those completely new to the business through to chart-topping artists and these have included Robbie Williams, PJ Harvey, Paloma Faith, Geor...
#4: KT Tunstall
July 25, 2021 10:20 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBDave talks to singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and briefly meets her new rescue dog Mini in this episode. KT grew up performing. Not only did she have piano lessons, she also acted and did tap dancing, which she describes as “drumming with your body”. But it was when she picked up a guitar that her musical life took wings. KT learnt a lot about how to perform from busking and playing in bars and restaurants, where she would challenge herself to focus on one person and make them look up and get ...
#3 Paul McDonald
July 25, 2021 10:19 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBDo you want to know more about what a manager does and how they can help you achieve great things in your music career? In this episode Dave talks with Paul McDonald of Closer Artists who explains how they work with their successful roster of artists and writers, which includes George Ezra, James Bay and James Morrison. What does a manager do? “We look after 2 sides of an artist’s life, we look after their creative life and we look after their business life. As far as the creative side is ...
#2 Phil Nelson
July 25, 2021 10:17 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBNobody knows or cares about you or your music when you are starting. How do you even begin to change that? There are more than 60,000 new tracks loaded to Spotify every single day...how can you stand out? Phil Nelson explains what you need to do to earn the attention of “the managers, the agents, the labels and the other people” who might help you supercharge your career. He talks about the Do It Yourself ladders he has developed to help you understand more clearly what you are trying to a...
#1: Dave Holley interviewed by James Hall
July 25, 2021 09:50 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBIn the opening episode the music writer James Hall interviews gigomi founder Dave Holley about his plans and hopes for gigomi. gigomi is for up and coming musicians who are serious about turning their talent into a career. Dave is a 30+ year veteran of the music industry (he has organised a festival in Spain featuring Bob Dylan, run Abbey Road Studios and is currently CEO of one of the world's biggest independent music publishers). Each week he will interview an artist or executive about ...