44 MusicWeek 14.09.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL NEC GROUP VETERAN JOINS OFFICIAL BOX OFFICE IN NEW ROLE TICKET FACTORY
The Birmingham-based ticketing agent has appointed PETER MONKS as its new commercial director.
Monks makes the move up from assistant general manager and will take overall responsibility for new business growth and development. The Ticket Factory, which is also
the official box office for the NIA, LG Arena and the NEC has restructured its commercial team, with the creation of three new positions. Following the new commercial director role, the company are looking to recruit a new business development manager and business development executive.
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Will Quekett, general manager of TTF said: “Our ticketing business is booming and in order to continue to expand we are investing heavily in Business Development.” Commenting on his new role, Monks said: “I am delighted to be able to continue to drive the growth of The Ticket Factory. I was heavily involved in our re-launch from an in-house box office to a national ticketing agent in 2007, and am extremely proud of what we have achieved over the past five years.
“I am looking forward to building on this success and expanding the Business Development team.” Monks has been with the NEC
Group for 14 years, starting his career at the International Convention Centre (ICC) Birmingham in 1998. He later joined the sales team for the National Indoor Arena (NIA) and LG Arena before moving to the (then) NEC Box Office in 2005.
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND TV executive SIR PETER
BAZALGETTE has been appointed chairman of the organisation and will take up the four-year term on January 31, succeeding Dame Liz Forgan after four years in the role. Bazalgette is chair of English National Opera, president of the Royal Television Society, a non-executive director on the board of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is one of the key figures behind TV production company Endemol. He said of the his role: "Sustaining our vigorous arts and cultural sector is admittedly a challenge but one I greatly look forward to.”
ENTS24
CHARLIE PRESBURG has joined the online live entertainment guide.
Presburg spent 17 years at
Pollstar UK, most recently as managing director. He helped the US-based company set up its
London operation in 1995. In his new role, Presburg is
tasked with cementing Ents24's position with the live music business as well as establishing new relationships with the industry.
He said: "Ents24 has
established itself as a premier web destination for entertainment fans, and I'm looking forward to helping the entertainment industry make the most of what the website has to offer."
UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP NASHVILLE The company has expanded its creative team with four new appointments. CYNDI
FORMAN has been promoted to vice president, creative from senior creative director and will be tasked with
furthering artist and writer development. She has worked at UMPG Nashville since 2003. FREEMAN WIZER moves up to
creative director. He has secured covers for his writers from the likes of Tim McGraw and American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Wizer’s current roster of composers includes Phillip White, J.T. Hodges, Trent Summar and Nathan Chapman. MISSY WILSON has been named UMPG Nashville's new senior creative director, joining from EMI Music Publishing after stints at Island Bound Music Publishing, Disney Music Publishing, and Stage Three Music. TRAVIS GORDON is now
creative manager, and will be tasked with writer development and song plugging. Gordon moves to UMPG Nashville from William Morris Endeavor, where he worked as a promoter and in corporate partnerships.
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MY BIG BREAK How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry…
Ian Dowdell, Tour and Production Manager – Rumer “I used to be a photographer and was due to work with heritage rock act The Quireboys. I was ill on the day and so called them to cancel. Come the evening I was still feeling sick but decided that, rather than feel sorry for myself at home, going to the show would at least be doing something productive. “When I got there, their tour manager had gone home sick (not as sick as I was I’d wager) and
#46 Tony Wadsworth CBE, Chairman, BPI
Tony Wadsworth was Chairman and CEO of EMI Music UK & Ireland and in a 26-year career with the company held many roles including managing director of Parlophone, which he relaunched in the Nineties as well as overseeing the combination of the Virgin label. Wadsworth went on to run all of EMI's UK labels and had success with artists including Robbie Williams, Coldplay, and the Beatles.
He holds Chairman positions at the BPI, BRIT Awards and Julie's Bicycle, and is on the board of the BRITs Trust charity as well as being a trustee of the
Music Sound Foundation and the EMI Archive Trust. He has an Honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of Gloucestershire and is a Visiting Professor of the music and business schools at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Wadsworth has been awarded the Music Week Strat 2008, for outstanding contribution to the UK music industry; the Scott Piering Award 2009 by the Radio Academy, recognising outstanding contribution to music radio, and a CBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the UK music industry.
they asked me if I could help out for a few days. I obviously did something right as I ended up working with them for the next four years. “Looking to work with a more mainstream act I started helping out unsigned band The Rifles. Initially it was a step back but they became a very successful live act, keeping me busy for the next eight years. It was also the start of my relationship with Brian Message at ATC Management which lead to four years with Kate Nash and most recently, a very successful and satisfying year as Tour and Production manager with Rumer.”
TOP TIP It’s a cliché but with the right attitude and hard work you can make your own luck. The trick is to make
sure that you are prepared to do the best possible job when you do get a break and make the most of the opportunity.
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