26 MusicWeek 15.11.13 PEOPLE PERSONNEL OUTSIDE ORG HIRES TO BOOST NEW TALENT n OUTSIDE ORGANISATION
actively pitching for development acts to work with alongside the company’s current roster of artists. Having been at EMI/Parlophone
Outside Organisation has hired PREETI RAJAN and JACK DELANEY. Rajan has been appointed to the
role of digital manager. She will oversee the social and digital media management for Outside’s clients and the agency itself. After studying Law for five years,
she changed career path upon taking a marketing internship at EMI. Rajan worked at the United Marketing Agency for two years as an account manager, where her clients included Polydor and Mama Group. Delaney has been appointed as
a publicist. He will work closely with the team and offer a more strategic digital PR approach to campaigns across the company as a whole, while broadening his reach to print, radio and TV media. In addition to this, he will be
for seven years, the most recent were spent as an online publicist, working on campaigns including Noel Gallagher, Eliza Doolittle, Richard Hawley, Gabrielle Aplin and Babyshambles. Alan Edwards, Outside’s CEO
said: “We are thrilled to have Preeti and Jack at Outside. They both bring new skills and compliment what we already do. Their arrival helps realise Outside’s multi- layered media vision and fully integrates new and old media. “Jack’s got a great eye/feel and
skill in developing acts and has some excellent contacts. We develop a lot of new talent and have a great passion helping to bring acts into a more mainstream position. Jack will be an integral part of that future. “I’ve been working with Preeti for
a year now and on our first meeting I was very impressed with her skills set, not just in social
NEED TO KNOW
Week by week, build the best contact book in the business #88 Kanya King MBE, CEO and Founder, MOBO
Kanya King founded the MOBO Awards in 1996, persuaded Carlton TV to broadcast the event and managed to organise and book the talent within just six weeks. Eighteen years on and it is one of the most-televised urban music awards shows in the world, reaching in excess of 400 million viewers across over 200 countries. While working as a TV
researcher, King was convinced that there was a place for a mainstream British awards ceremony that celebrated music genres originating from black culture, which were not recognised at the time. When she couldn’t find a financial backer, she remortgaged her property to fund the TV production herself. King was honoured with an
MBE in 1999, and holds many accolades including being named one of London’s Most Influential People by the Evening Standard and one of
Britain’s Most Entrepreneurial Women by Real Business, as well as featuring in BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour 2013 power list, and the Guardian Music Power 100. She also has an Honorary
Fellowship at Goldsmith’s University, a Doctorate of Business at London and Leeds Metropolitan Universities, is an honoured patron of Music at the City of Westminster College and a board member of the E2E Exchange.
media but also her knowledge and enthusiasm for music of all genres and new/up-and-coming artists. She not only brings a new knowledge, but energy and style to whatever we’re doing. I think she’s going to be an incredible part of our story going forwards.”
n KERRANG RADIO
JAMES ELLISON has joined Kerrang Radio as programme, automation and content producer. He previously worked as a radio
plugger for All About Promotions and Pivotal PR, rising from an intern position to working on A-list radio and TV campaigns, including with Gary Numan on his last two albums. Being a composer and producer
as well, he will combine skills for radio, music and production. Ellison said: “I’m really excited to
be working with the team at Kerrang, their content has always been full of passion and it’s a tradition I want to continue.”
n CLOSER ARTISTS
CHRIS FULLER has joined Closer Artists, which represents James Morrison, John Newman, James Bay and George Ezra. He will work in an assistant management role, supporting artist managers Paul McDonald and Ryan Lofthouse. Fuller previously worked as an
event manager at Underground Music, starting with small club events and building to 1,000+ capacity events. After three years he moved to become promotions manager of Audio Nightclub in Southampton, followed by a season in Ibiza running PR and promotion for Carl Cox’s legendary nights at Space. He then worked at Island Records as a press assistant on campaigns including John Newman.
n WELLER MEDIA AGENCY JENNA KNIGHT joins the new digital agency as its head of publicity, bringing clients with her including Olly Murs, The Wanted, Labrinth, Etta Bond and DJ Fresh. The company is a full-service digital agency set up by Seb Weller, a former Sony Music employee. Previously head of online PR at
Lucid Online, Knight spent four years with Lucid during their time as an independent and their time within Sony. Prior to that she worked for Bristol-based agency Hyperlaunch.
n HALESTORM PR After 10 “extremely happy years” at Mercury/Virgin/EMI, LAUREN HALES has left to start up her own independent PR company, Halestorm PR. She is continuing to work with
Pixie Lott, Chase and Status, Amy Macdonald, Sub Focus, Fall Out Boy, The Vamps and Nero.
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MY BIG BREAK How UK executives arrived in the music industry... Jane Kearney, Account Manager - Music and Entertainment PR, LD Communications
“My parents raised me on Thin Lizzy and Bruce Springsteen, despite other opinions, this was a happy childhood - I promise. This ‘musical education’ led me to study Music Industry and Entertainment Management at Hertfordshire University and whilst at uni I interned at Visible Noise. Julie Weir is by far one of the main reasons I am where I am - I gave her the good coffee/tea and she introduced me to the industry. “Today I’m an account manager at LD
Communications in music and entertainment PR, working with some of the best and maddest people in the business (hats off to operations director Neil Chivers for giving me an interview after I offered to sing my CV down the phone to him). After nearly three years here, I’ve worked on
some incredible projects, including The Rolling Stones’ 50 And Counting Tour, Download Festival, NME Awards, Kerrang! Awards, as well as organising photocalls with Father Christmas for LaplandUK. There is never a dull moment and always a good story to be heard from MD Claire Singers and CEO Bernard Doherty - the tallest man in PR.”
TOP TIP Don't be knocked down by doors closing - there's always a way of getting in (even if you don't own Harry Potter’s invisible cloak). Start everyday singing in the shower. You don't HAVE to go to the event just because it has a free bar, but it would be rude not to.
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