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make music... make money As part for PRS for Music’s centenary celebrations, M magazine got together with the society’s membership team to host a career panel and sync session for members at Getty Images gallery, London. The career panel, entitled Make music, Make Money, assembled experts from across the industry to provide practical advice and offer tips for emerging songwriters and composers looking to take their career to the next level.
interview: teleman Teleman have emerged from the ashes of Pete and the Pirates as a lithe, electronic indie juggernaut, ready to derail the nerd-pop template. A handful of early tracks, such as Steam Train Girl, Cristina and Lady Low, offer emotional wallop and whimsy in equal measure, and carry all the hallmarks of songwriters and musicians who have mastered their craft. Like alt-J and Django Django, they are unrestricted by the longstanding British indie mould, swapping guitars and skinny jeans for a looser sonic palette and a more synthetic production approach. The band, made up of Hiro Amamiya, Peter Cattermoul and brothers Tom and Jonny Sanders, have been
holed up in the studio with former Suede guitar ace turned production whiz Bernard Butler. The fruits of their collaboration, which was part-funded by the PRS for Music Foundation Momentum Fund, will be their debut album Breakfast, due for release on 26 May. We spent a few minutes with Tom before their show supporting Connan Mockasin at Bush Hall, London, to hear about the band’s new sound. He candidly discusses his recording process and reveals what can happen when things go horribly wrong… m-magazine.co.uk/interviews
session: pandr eyez Balancing Ferren’s natural feel-good vibes and persuasive vocal hooks against Tom’s stubborn rhythms and aggressive bass, they’ve come up with a formula that doesn’t stray too far from the mainstream but holds its integrity. Their latest offering, Present EP, is a riotous mix of unassailable production and conflicting melodies, from sultry refrains to sharp raps.
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Opener Don’t Hurt Em kicks off with a sample that could be straight from Dean Blunt’s The Narcissist II, before descending at speed into bass-fuelled mayhem. It’s followed by the pair’s statement of intent – a dreamy, rolling cover of Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker.
For Pandr Eyez, music is a game of contrasts. The London-based duo navigate the choppier waters of hip-hop and bass to bring a rougher edge to their otherwise pristine pop. Over a handful of self-released EPs, US-born Ferren Gipson and her production partner Tom Lloyd have combined these elements to give us an outsider take on the R&B mode – and so far so good.
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With so much ground covered on this EP, it seems that Pandr Eyez have only just begun to find their groove and hit their experimental stride – so we were very excited to have them play at our M magazine/PRS for Music showcase in March. Watch them perform two songs for us at the Getty Images gallery – you won’t be disappointed. m-magazine.co.uk/newmusic/sessions
Chaired by Andy Ellis, PRS for Music’s Education and Outreach Manager, the hour and a half session demystified the world of A&R, sync licensing, contracts, management and promotion. Revered A&R and artist manager James Endeacott (The Strokes, The Libertines, Tindersticks) was joined by media lawyer Pete Bott, PRS for Music’s membership guru Alex Sharman and Kat Kennedy, General Manager at Big Life Management, all of whom took questions from the floor on their specialist areas. We were on hand to film the session and have a two-part video available now on M online for all of you who couldn’t make it along to the session. While you’re there, be sure to check out our video from the World of Sync session we recorded on the same day with Ruth Simmons, MD of Soundlounge. For more than 30 years, Ruth has been looking at ways to make music work better in branding and marketing, arranging sync deals with world leading companies including McDonalds, HSBC, Durex and Pataks. In our session she talks us through the perils and pitfalls for songwriters and composers in the modern sync licensing world and offers essential advice for when those creative executives come knocking. m-magazine.co.uk/makeithappen
win a 32gb kindle fire Celebrate PRS for Music’s centenary by entering our latest member competition - and you could be in with a chance of winning a Kindle Fire 32GB and £100 worth of Amazon vouchers. All you have to do to enter is visit m-magazine.co.uk/competitions, watch PRS for Music’s 100 Years of Music video and answer a simple question. Good luck! Competition closes at the end of April.
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