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Our primary work is touring wonderful bands from the USA and UK across the UK's live music venues with various kinds of publicity and PR support, you can see our full website at www.coffeeartists.com

A short history

Coffee Artists is a part of the 12 year old Coffee Arts and Media organisation which also includes the award winning British independent film production company Coffee Films.

Launched as a DJ agency in 2003, at the end of the days when DJs actually got paid anything worthwhile, Coffee Artists quickly expanded to live bands and discovered a wealth of untapped talent on the US east coast's independent music scene eager to tour the UK.

Bravely blazing a trail Jake Stigers and later Pete and J invested in regularly touring the UK and word of mouth quickly spread around the New York indie scene about the little British agency that could somehow create successful and even profitable UK tours for virtually unknown artists.

Each new signing brought a higher profile of act and word quickly spread towards the West coast US and across Europe whilst the original roster rapidly delivered on potential, attracting major labels and exponentially increasing fanbases. We expanded with them and drew on the resources of the Coffee organisation to also provide publicity and marketing support and a range of services for other companies and talents in the film industry, finding immediate success through viral campaigns run via communities such as Myspace.

Now in our fifth year we are looking forward to another five of discovering the best creative artists and continuing to build one of the most exciting rosters in the industry.

Music submissions

We currently represent a select roster of music artists and producers across a range of genres, if you think we need to hear your stuff please bear these guidelines in mind;

No Cover or Tribute bands; seriously, write your own music
No Country; Americana is not Country, there is no Country market in the UK
No Classical; you seriously need to be with a specialist classical focused agency
No Metal; it's just not our thing
No DJs; clubbing is dead, deal with it
No purely instumental artists or acts
No Instrumental Electronica on a budget; we love it but there's no live scene unless you're about to go BIG, your promises of being the next Brian Eno/Orb/Aphex Twin do not count, a deal with something like Warp or Ninja Tunes does.

Publicity info if it looks like your baby daughter made it that just tells us you're not taking yourself seriously and expect us to build your entire career for you; graphic design does cost but neat, tidy and effort don't, we just expect you to show a little pride in how you present yourself.

We receive well over 1000 unsolicited submissions every year, the total number of artists signed to our booking roster from unsolicited submissions in the last two years is 1 (yes, that's one) so please, please try and be realistic as to whether you are at the quality level of our other artists. If you still think we need to hear you send us a link to an EPK, Myspace page or website and include a decent biography and anything else interesting