ON THE RADAR LAWSON
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PERFORMING AT LONDON’S O2 ARENA supporting The Wanted has been the highlight of Lawson’s four- year journey so far. But even before the band got their record deal with Polydor last summer they built up a vast and passionate fanbase – and this is all before they’ve released their official debut single. Speaking to Music Week,
singer-songwriter and guitarist Andy Brown reveals: “Building success as a new band is a slow process. We’ve worked on gradually building up our fansbase via word of mouth and putting covers on YouTube. “That was the secret, working really hard on the social media,
interacting with the people who like the music – we’d managed to do quite a lot of it ourselves before we got signed. Then we got a few great tours under our belt – supporting The Wanted, Avril Lavigne and Will Young. The first Wanted tour was essentially the showcase that got us our record deal.” For those yet to become
acquainted with Lawson, Brown describes the UK based four-piece band’s sound as “Meaningful pop- rock that has acoustic-led meaning- ful, emotional, real-life lyrics. The same sort of genre as the likes of Ed Sheeran, Adele and The Script.” Lawson’s highly-anticipated
HE SAID / SHE SAID “
HITWISE Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 1 OLLY MURS 2 4 STEPS 3 8 COLDPLAY 4 9 WESTLIFE 5 10 LADY GAGA 6 NEW BEN HOWARD 7 6 SECRET GARDEN PARTY 8 5 JESSIE J 9 NEW FLEETWOOD MAC 10 3 ONE DIRECTION 11 NEW TOM JONES 12 NEW MADONNA 13 11 V FESTIVAL 14 NEW BLINK 182 15 NEW CREAMFIELDS 16 16 JUSTIN BIEBER 17 15 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 18 NEW EMELI SANDE 19 7 ED SHEERAN 20 13 WIRELESS FESTIVAL
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VIAGOGO Secondary Ticketing Chart
POS EVENT 1 WESTLIFE 2 COLDPLAY 3 JAY-Z 4 MADONNA 5 ONE DIRECTION 6 CAPITAL FM’S SUMMERTIME BALL 7 LADY GAGA 8 THE STONE ROSES 9 ED SHEERAN 10 LIGABUE 11 BEN HOWARD 12 BLINK 182 13 KEANE 14 HAPPY MONDAYS 15 GUNS N’ ROSES 16 DAVID GUETTA 17 BLUR 18 OLLY MURS 19 ALABAMA SHAKES 20 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
MUST-SEE MUSIC TICKETING CHARTS
TIXDAQ Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 4 5 3 6 7 8 9
ONE DIRECTION LADY GAGA COLDPLAY OLLY MURS WESTLIFE
STONE ROSES NICKI MINAJ LIONEL RICHIE
NOEL GALLAGHER
10 12 KEANE 11 14 EMELI SANDE 12 13 EXAMPLE 13 15 TOM JONES 14 11 HAPPY MONDAYS 15 16 V FESTIVAL 16 10 MADONNA 17 NEW THE WANTED 18 17 JESSIE J 19 18 GEORGE MICHAEL 20 20 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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release airplay support sees them in the Top 40 TV and radio charts. The band are looking forward to
debut album has been produced with multiple Grammy winner John Shanks (Take That’s Beautiful World and The Circus) and is slated for a post-summer release. In the meantime, long-awaited debut sin- gle When She Was Mine is clocking up hundreds of thousands of YouTube views with its sunny Los Angeles-filmed video, and pre-
supporting Westlife on their last ever two tour dates at Dublin’s 85,000-capacity Croke Park stadi- um. Brown says: “We get on really well with the guys, they’ve support- ed us so much – especially Mark. To be doing those dates is amaz- ing, we’re delighted.” Before that, they’ll be on another sold-out head- line tour in May, that coincides with their single release. Looking to the future, Brown is
keen to achieve chart success and progress to bigger live audiences: “I’d love to have a Top 10 single with our first release. Then hopefully theatre-sized venues, arenas. Hopefully a Top 10 album as well!”
ESSENTIAL INFO
LABEL Aaron Buckingham, Global Talent MANAGEMENT Polydor/Global Talent Records: Kelly Ridgway 020 7471 5258 RELEASES Free download: Red Sky May 27 debut single: When She Was Mine Summer 2012 second single: tbc 2012 debut album: tbc LIVE May 2012 - Sold out headline tour Mon 14: ABC2, Glasgow Tues 15: Cockpit, Leeds Wed 16: Stealth, Nottingham Fri 18: Leadmill, Sheffield Sat 19: Deaf Institute, Manchester Wed 30: Kings College, London Thurs 31: Temple Institute, Birmingham
TAKE A BOW TEAM LABRINTH Label: Syco Music
General manager: Sonny Takhar
A&R: Sonny Takhar
Manager: Marc Williams, Milmark Music
THE LOWDOWN
Album: Electronic Earth Highest chart position: No.2
Marketing: Laurence Boakes, Sony Music
Digital marketing: Genevieve Ampaduh, Sony Music
National press: Sundraj Sreenivasan, Supersonic PR
Online press: Jenna Knight, Lucid Online
National radio: Leighton Woods & Woolfie, Hungry and Woods
Regional radio: Clare Newsham, Promostint
TV: Jacqui Quaife, J Quaife PR
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