My Beautiful Mistakes - Colin Lester- Founder & CEO , JEM Artists

Colin Lester- Founder & CEO , JEM Artists

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10/13/20 • 70 min

My Beautiful Mistakes

This weeks' edition of the pod features one of the music industry's best known artist managers , a man never afraid to tell it like it is – the son of a holocaust survivor he was in a band that were managed by the legendary Don Arden, has guided the careers of the Brand New Heavies, Travis , the Arctic Monkeys and many more, but is probably best known for his 20-year professional relationship with one artist - Craig David. Colin Lester talks to Andy Saunders about his remarkable father, his early days in 70’s London , his move into artist management and about some of the adventures he’s had along the way in this weeks episode of ‘My Beautiful Mistakes.’
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Iain Watt - Managing Director, YMU Music

In this episode of My Beautiful Mistakes Iain Watt , Managing Director of YMU Music one of the world's leading artists management companies, talks us through his life and career. From his early days as a junior PR at Lynne Franks PR and Freud Communications , his time as a major label press officer at Sony Music , his pivot into the nascent world of the internet and the realisation that his real strengths lay in artist management, Iain talks to host Andy Saunders about his successes and of course the times he might have done things differently.

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David Bianchi - Founder & CEO, Various Artists

This week's guest is a manager who has guided artist careers across extreme metal, punk, indie, mainstream pop and several other genres – a onetime self-confessed goth from Corby , a Midlands steel town, David Bianchi started out as , in his own words, a pretty hopeless musician and transitioned into the role of artist manager after a close friend told him he was “shit” and should try something else . A stint in club promotion at the birth of Britpop saw him hook up with legendary Mark Morrison manager johnny laws before branching out on his own. Just some of the artists whose careers David has overseen include The libertines, Tom Grennan, Killing Joke, The enemy, Charli XCX, Ashnikko, Barnes Courtney – the list goes on and on... This was a fun chat, so sit back and enjoy this episode of ‘My Beautiful Mistakes’ ....