When I'm not working, which is my main interest, I like to curl up with a great book, travel on vacation, hunt for bargain antiques, and try out couch potato positions,
I love, my family, the truth, music of most genres, hot august nights, cold crisp sunny days, gospel choirs, male voice choirs, Mozart, Holst, chillin in a beach bar at sunset, hot mulled wine on a mountain, freezing cold chablis, grilled lobster, choc chip ice cream, shoes & many of em,
lazing in a tub of scented bubbles, travelling, moonlight,
honesty, more truth, love, kindness, loyalty, straight up people, gentle souls, hard work, and most of all I love God.
I hate, liars, pretentious people, name dropping blaggers, self opinionated dickheads, dishonesty, disloyalty, temper tantrums, gossips, stalkers, obsessive women, jealousy, bad english, bad written english, especially people who only write in capitals ugh !! !!
Music
Music is my passion, I just love all great music from Rock to R&B, Hip Hop, Jazz, Indie,
I love the best instrument of all, the voice !! fantastic distinctive vocals do it for me everytime,
Stevie Wonder, Eddie Kendricks, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Edwin Starr, Jimmy Ruffin, Betty Everett, Stevie Winwood, Seal, Mick Hucknall, Aretha Franklin, Brian McKnight, Steve Tyler, Whitney, Sam Cooke, Jon Bon Jovi, Norah Jones, Brian Adams, Bonnie Rait, Joni Mitchell, hell far too many to mention
Movies
Dont get much time to sit that long in one place, but ones that stick to mind are The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Brokeback Mountain, I walk the Line, The Firm, African Queen, The freedom Writers,
Television
Mainly Music programmes, its my job to keep up !!
Books
everything by John Grisham, Da Vinci Code and all the rest of Dan Brown's,
other fave bedtime authors are John Connolly, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, James Herbert, Stephen King, love being scared shitless !!
Heroes
My Mother, she's such a lady,
Sharon Osbourne, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Curtis Mayfield, Michael Laskow, Richard Branson, Quincy Jones, Stevie Winwood, Dr Dre, David Foster, Joe Elliot, Steve Tyler, Mutt Lange, Stevie Lange,
Dave Breith, Timberlake, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin,
more later, cant think right now
About me, well its not about me really, its about the music !!!
I have a massively varied taste in music, and love most genres, so my job working in music management and with singers, songwriters, producers and publishers is absolutely the bees knees, I'm so lucky that I have a job that I love to wake up to everyday and just get stuck in smiling and do it !!!
I fast became a myspace web junkie about 2 years ago and have got to say I now spend far too much time on Myspace browsing among all the fantastic young bands and musician pages checking out all the new whats hot now sounds, as well as all the great music thats been with us for yonks and still thriving.
I work in the wonderful industry we called the Music Biz, mainly on the management side but have a few sidelines in A&R, talent scouting, publishing, promo, song plugging and pitching, and some TV and Radio.
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I'm based in the UK but travel quite extensively with my work, both in Europe and the US, since I joined myspace in 2005 and used the site for what it is, a great networking tool, I have been fortunate to meet up with more like minded great people in the industry when I've been out there on my travels, to swap ideas, network, and generally meet up for dinner and hang out. When I'm out and about in new places its great to get out there and see whats happening in other areas of music besides my own.
all of the great kids that I rep in the biz have myspace pages, and are featured here on my top page they are Chris Jones, Ashley Dawes, Alix Robb, great young new artists but even more than that solid writers too that are going places fast,
Chris is trucking along very nicely now since teaming up with Armin van Buuren and DJ Shah on a co-write "Going Wrong" the record is hitting the airwaves all over europe on the top playlists, and on bbc radio 1 Pete Tong and Judge Jules show too !! its all absolutely thrilling to be part of ! and well deserved Chris !
shouldnt be long before we see a big chart hit !!! yeahh
Sabrina a sultry stunner with a voice to match. . in the studio writing and recording right now, but coming up with some real treasures, cant wait to get the stuff up on myspace for all to hear.
Then theres lovely little Alix Robb, the baby of the gang, pretty as a picture with a great vocal delivery, also recording and developing at the moment, but will soon ready to fly like the rest of the gang
I'm working quite extensively these days with the great crew fronn Dsign in Trondheim Norway, watch out for some mega hits from these guys very soon
Kelly Lee, the lovely little country songbird got signed the back end of last year to Halo Records, congrats Kelly !! great songs and fantastic voice, check her out your missing something if you dont, watch for her new single "Stay" and the album and video release coming quite soon, good luck sweetie !!
Ashley Dawes one of my fave female singer/songwriters, fab distinctive voice, great electic music with a totally new fresh vibe has recently recorded in Norway with the Dsign production crew, Ronny Svendson, Anne Judith Wik,and Nerim Harambasic and also in LA with Marshall Altman at Galtline Music, I'm expecting great things coming along for Ashley this year, she's getting some amazing feedback on her material
I just spent a week in Burbank Los Angeles recording one of my artists with Marshall Altman and the Galtline Music team, wow what can I say, immense talent, top tight production, great studio, slammin songs, and Hollywood just around the corner, and to top it all Marshall and Eric, are just top diamond geezers, if ever you get the chance and the budget. . . . go for it !!
Who I'd like to meet: Marshall Altman and Eric Robinson at Galtline Music in Los Angeles, are a fantastic production company based in Burbank Los Angeles, watch out for big hits coming from them this year, I'm happy and proud to be associated with them.
I work quite closely too with www.dsignmusic.com in Norway pop and r&b producers extraordinaire the talents of which are truly awesome, Robin, Ronny, Anne and Nermin I salute you guys.
I'd like to meet other music management teams, Publishers, producers, artists, agents, promotors, musicians, whatever, hey anyone else in my line of work, cuz its good to network !!
I help break new artist? I work with managers,Labels and artist direct. Need Radio Play? Need Fim and TV deals? 50/50 Deals I can get you in the industry.
Hey Fam! Really don't mean to bother you at all. Just want to say that my new video is out and I would appreciate if you WATCH it, RATE it n left a COMMENT.
HI Lee,
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<br />Glad to see we are now part of the same network, I surely appreciate it!
<br />Talk to you soon & hope we can make it far in the festival4stars contest ;)
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<br />Have a great weekend!
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<br />Evan xx
Thanks so much for adding Northern Rokk as a friend
<br />Hope to see you at one of our gigs soon
<br />We are also now on Facebook so check out the blog for details.
<br />Thanks