What is the best thing you’ve experienced through this career path? What type of things do managers need MARC: For sure, seeing this be made into to consider/organise when a band/artist a career is the best thing I have experiwants to record some music, includenced. This is a hobby turned career and ing promotion and distribution (iTunes, anyone who is lucky enough to be apart stores etc.)? of it is grateful. MARC: Thankfully this isn’t a big part DAYNA: The pinnacle of it all would have of my job. Most of the time, a band can to be seeing Call The Shots play on the figure out when they need to or when it is Warped Tour. The touring and meeting so time to record due to their scheduling and many people that I now call my friends is tours coming up etc. also great. DAYNA: Sometimes the bands have a LIAM: Getting to travel the world is the general idea of where they want to remost amazing thing I think anyone can cord, who they want to record with and do. I get paid to do this and work with that means the manager is more so the some amazing people, I love it. communicator. I look at blocking out the recording time at the studio with the How did you get involved with the music producer/engineer so it fits with the sur- industry? rounding schedule of the band. There is MARC: My grandma bought me a guitar also mastering, album artwork, how/who when I was 13 years old and was stupid will distribute the release to be organised, enough to never get a real job. Words of shooting of a music video, is there a label wisdom: go to college and get a real job. on board, then setting release dates, arDAYNA: I have had a passion for music ranging publicity for the release. since I was 8 years old when I began to learn the piano. A fire was set a light in What daily jobs do managers perform me from that day and I knew that all I (apart from booking shows/ organising wanted to do was submerse myself in studio time)? music somehow. I got into it through MARC: This depends day by day. For talking with other industry people and I example, today I am in England so my think they could see themselves in me jobs were, eat really crappy food, be really with my determination and passion for miserable due to the rain, and try to find the industry. In meeting these people I any working internet in the whole country. was presented with different opportuniDAYNA: Daily jobs fluctuate depending on ties that put me in front of other industry what is coming up for the band – it genpeople and so it went on. It does come erally involves a lot of emails and phone down to networking. calls. A really cool description was from LIAM: I’ve been a musician myself for Daemon Atkinson, he is the day to day many many years and I decided I needed manager of American country artist Joe a back up in case I wasn’t a rock star! So Nichols. He said: “a manager is like air I got into working behind the scenes in traffic control” - this is a pretty good way audio, lighting and tour management and to describe the role. As well as wearing realised I loved it just as much. Slowly but many hats myself, I am the go to person surely I worked my way up and now I’m for all the incoming enquiries from the touring with some of the greatest bands outside world and also anything that the the word has to offer such as Sheppard. band want/need I put these ideas in to action. I filter, coordinate, organise, direct, How do you go about getting bands/artdelegate and am on call 24/7. ists the role of a supporting band in big effectively.
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