In this episode of My Beautiful Mistakes host Andy Saunders talk to Sergio Mottola , Co-Founder & CEO of Public Pressure. Public Pressure was originally launched in London in 2015 as an online community and magazine dedicated to giving a voice to emerging artists and labels. Today, it’s a global Web3 media company with a carbon neutral NFT marketplace designed to support the transition of music to Web3. Focusing on the interactions between music, fashion, culture, and technology, i...

in this special edition of My Beautiful Mistakes Tom Allen and Richard Leach the co-founders of Curve Royalty systems talk about how they prefer to be known as entrepreneurial problem solvers rather than royalty geeks and how they built their company from humble beginnings into a seven figure turnover mainstay of the global music industry, representing many of the worlds most successful independent music companies.

Our final guest of 2020 is the Lancashire born, working class son of a window cleaner whose early academic promise saw him earn a scholarship to a good school and then a place to read economics at Newcastle University . It was there that he formed a band with some fellow students and after completing his studies moved down to London to try his luck at making music his full time job much to the dismay of his parents. When things didn’t work out with the band he searched...

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the pod – this latest interviewee has the distinction of being our first American guest – Rell Lafargue is the President and COO of Reservoir , one of the fastest growing and successful independent music companies in the world. With music pubLishing at its core Reservoir has in recent years added record companies and artist management firms to its portfolio, as part of its ambition to be, in Rell’s words, ‘a complete mu...

In this week's episode of 'My Beautiful Mistakes ' Andy Saunders talks to his one time boss and mentor Alan McGee. Born in Glasgow Alan moved to London in his teens to follow his dreams of playing in a punk rock band only to find himself homeless and living in the doorway of boots the chemist in Covent Garden. A chance meeting with a kindly friend who offered him the opportunity to live in their squat led to him starting a club night, 'The Living Room...

In this episode of 'My Beautiful Mistakes' we talk to Cornwall raised trainee architect , who came to London with his band searching for success only to end up in the music business . Korda Marshall talks to Andy Saunders about a life and career that has seen him head up both independent and major record companies and work with a hugely impressive list of critically and commercially successful artists from across a wide range of genres.

This week’s guest was born in West London and raised by a single mother before developing a serious, degenerative illness at just 11 years old – an overwhelming dislike of formal education and problems at home led to him leaving home at just 15 and going to work in the construction business before his love of music saw him join a local band . Stints as a roadie and then as a successful local live music promoter and venue owner led eventually to him founding Music Venue Trust of which he...

In this episode Andy Saunders talks to Tim Ingham , founder and publisher of the hugely influential music industry trade platform Music Business Worldwide (MBW), which is read by anyone who is anyone in the global music industry. After getting his first journalistic break on London free sheet Metro , Tim became one of the UK's most successful editors in the computer games trade media before taking over at Music Week when he transformed a previously moribund magazine into a ...

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 wi...

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 f...