James Parrish
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If you needed any reminding of how a career in music PR will surely take over your life then here's a photo of
@Jay_W_Taylor
obliviously pissing emails into the abyss while a penguin watches, taken on his actual honeymoon.
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I'm missing gigs so much I'd go and see my mate's band.
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If you don't want your favourite bands to break up, don't take them for granted. A stream isn't enough. Buy the record and if you can't buy the record, buy the T-shirt. Go see them when they tour. Play them to your friends, spread the word. It's tougher than ever out there.
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Digging though childhood boxes today and found the OG self-help book. Thanks for everything, Bart.
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Had a new band, no management, no history, ask if I'd check out their new single. Said no problem, sure. Have now been asked to sign and scan an NDA before they'll send it. Maybe the angle here is that they formed at law school.
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The music industry planning September's release schedule.
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The actual headline of the local paper today. That went to print.
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After a year of no gigs, I'll tell you one thing I don't miss one bit - the drummer sound checking. Happy to never hear a snare in isolation ever again.
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.
@idlesband
covered ‘Helter Skelter’, put a verse in from ‘Pure Morning’ & every one of my world’s collided at once.
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Sending a list of gigs, in an email, to a music editor, to see if they or any of their writers would like to attend any gigs. Back in the game.
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I think the trickiest part of working in PR is your job never feels done. There's always something else you can be doing, someone else you can be mailing, some new idea you can be pitching. The expectation management, with yourself above of anyone else, is constant.
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@joelgolby
mum accidentally taped Poirot over his video of the afternoon's rugby, he went to sit in a shed for nearly two hours to calm down
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Just thinking back to the time, when I first started in the job, a band suggested we include "more hooks than a fishing tackle box" in their PR. Left it out. Draft PR was returned to me with that added in. Took it out again. Returned to me a third time, included this time in red.
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s/o to the blog that just emailed out of the blue asking to review a record that has been out for nearly three years and "only if we send 2 x LP - one for playing, one for my collection"
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A little shoutout and thank you to the blogs that continue to support new music whatever, and dedicate spare time to write often just for the love of it. You know who you are, and that graft doesn’t go unnoticed.
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Congrats to
@BCNRband
on their second top 5 album in 12 months. Been a privilege to watch this band grow over the last few years and to play a small part in their team.
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Shared an anti-racist tweet on our work account. Six unfollows in an hour. Good riddance, we wouldn’t want them following us anyway.
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You've got a nerve to be asking a favour
You've got a nerve to be calling my number
Can't you hear me, I'm calling out your name?
Can't you see me, I'm pounding on your door?
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Support blogs, subscribe to magazines and newsletters if you can afford to do so, and let writers and editors know you appreciate their work. We really are all in this together and none of us - writers, PRs, musicians, labels - can afford to lose any more of those we have left.
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Seven days now of being a dad. It’s been exhausting, it’s been challenging but, most of all, it’s been amazing and changed my world infinitely for the better overnight. Happy one week old, Arlo!
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It's like an echo chamber I know but, really, don't underestimate the Pitchfork news. Year after year we're seeing media die off, good people losing work, everyone's jobs getting that bit harder. Support sites, subscribe to magazines - appreciate what we have before its too late.
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Today proved what an embarrassment of musical riches are coming - all fighting for media space over the coming months and increasingly it feels like there’s not the needed number of outlets to sustain this.
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Back in the office for the first time this year, just for the morning. Never thought I’d miss an office, but I do. Hoping things improve and we’re all back, at least for some of the working week, come the summer.
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9 years ago today we set up Prescription. That went by fast.
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Proud of the band, label, management & everyone involved for this, and closer to home to
@Jay_W_Taylor
&
@WVwillvincent
who I know have put their absolute everything into this campaign these last few months.
.
@fontainesdublin
land a new UK chart peak with A Hero’s Death, finishing at Number 2 on this week’s Official Albums Chart:
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Written and re-written this a few times now and still can't quite put it into words. First saw them play The Black Heart in 2016 and what a privilege it has been to see them grow and grow as a band and people since. A huge, huge achievement. Proud doesn't even begin to cover it.
Congratulations
@idlesband
! 🏆 Ultra Mono goes straight to Number 1 as the fastest-selling vinyl of 2020 so far:
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Dad is 80 today & family together at last. Fish and chips by the sea ❤️
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Looking forward to another Christmas Day of my entire family having no idea of what I do for a living at all.
“Signed anyone good recently?”
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You've three hours left to help
@idlesband
make as big a dent on the charts as they can. What I'm saying is this: help an IDLE out. Stream, download or better still buy a physical copy of their excellent album here:
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance.
Stream / buy Joy as an Act of Resistance. by IDLES
idles.lnk.to
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Nice work from the BBC in sending this man, with this name, to report on the petrol station crisis.
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Looking at my photo reel from the weekend. 71 terrible photos of bands that I will never upload and never look at again. Don’t get me started on the 40 second live videos of ‘a bit of the second chorus and middle eighth’, filmed from behind a pillar. When will I ever learn.
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First listen in a long time, but one of best "90's indie" albums was released in 2011. Yuck's debut still sounds golden:
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Doing something that most people wouldn't recommend in 2018: setting up a record label. First two releases lined up and very excited about it.
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Literally live in the middle of nowhere and still more clapping just now than I hear at most London gigs.
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Lots of people we work with now really starting to feel the knock-on effects of the coronavirus and cancellations today. My thoughts with musicians, labels, agents, crew and anyone left feeling uncertain about these next couple of months, which is most of us: we'll get through it
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I invariably spend a small chunk of the working week putting capital letters into entire Q&A's written in lowercase. That's what a PR really does.
Tell us your experiences of making a living from music
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Moment of sincerity here, am properly made up at the vaccine news. The fact I'll feel able to spend time with my parents, both 70+ and one 80 next year, and not feel constantly anxious that I might make them poorly is massive. I worry about them constantly.
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Nothing else in this job beats being sent a link to new music, having no real preconceptions and then being blown away.
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I play in a band sometimes, just for the love of it, and it has been a long time since we released anything. After a few false starts, our long-recorded debut album is out in March. Has made my day to see Stereogum write about our new song:
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Just found out my near 80 year old dad is getting the first dose of his vaccine tomorrow!
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On a serious note: there's no harder working band, no record deserved it more & to go from self-releasing their debut 18 months ago to a top 5, as an independent band playing guitars in 2018, is a totally, totally wonderful thing. Yes, I'm going to have some beers tonight.
Official Albums Chart: Bristol rockers
@idlesband
storm into the Top 5 with Joy as an Act of Resistance
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Just found in an office drawer, a reminder of the time the Cambridge News actually went to print and into the shops with this cover.
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I know this might sound like a small gripe in the bigger scheme of things, but there are a couple of writers I've dealt with on and off for years who never - never - say please or thank you for anything. I blame the parents.
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In London and on a promo day for the first time since March. Already just happy to be here, I've missed this feeling of normality, temporary or not.
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After two and a half years my lucky streak is over, the rona has finally got me. After attending one day of a festival called… Outbreak. They did warn us.
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Found this while doing a clear out this evening. Can’t think there are many records I’ve worked on, or will work on, that I’ll ever love as much as I did this one.
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Alongside all the stories, another takeaway from the BBC Sounds podcast on Britpop was support bands feeling hard done by, rightly so, at the flat £50 fee per show back in that era. It’s insane to think it’s largely still £50 now, nearly 30 years later. It’s tougher than ever.
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Wonder how many hours I whittle away a year having to put capital letters into band's emailers before sending them back to writers. A clue, it's more than you might think.
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I've had a crappy month. My dad was in hospital, our dog in and out of the vets and then all the endlessly bleak Covid news. But this popped up on Facebook memories from 15 (!) years ago - first work Christmas party with
@Jay_W_Taylor
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I’ve just met someone who is adamant that Keanu Reeves’ character in The Matrix is called Neil.
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"Take a look at some of these charts, the latest streaming figures..."
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Video premiere
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A bit of perspective on the challenge facing writers, musicians, labels and PRs right now. And another reason why we need to protect the media we have left.
At my latest count, there are 166 albums coming out in March... that I at least know of... I had requests from writers to cover 30+ of those for The Skinny and I can only commission 14. 🫠 🫠 🫠
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Both
@idlesband
and
@fontainesdublin
nominated for
@MercuryPrize
shortlist today. Brilliant records, both, and I will always be thankful to wake up each day to work with artists we truly believe in.
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Or perhaps they did, had to load in and load out up that fire escape, and are now fucking us all out of spite.
the reason the music industry is being hung out to dry is because no sitting MP has ever performed at the Old Blue Last
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Influx of moody black and white promo shots none of us can use at press, incoming. Cue further lowercase song titles, and us riling up writers when we have to ask them to correct them in reviews. Will no-one please think of the publicists?
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Having a nice time at The Great Escape. Best discovery so far?
Found this DVD in the rack at our Airbnb.
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How dare Mogwai be this good album after album after album? Where do they get the nerve?
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Listening to Andrew Weatherall today & remembering. He was one of the only artists, in 15 years of doing this job, who would actually call you up for a chat & to say thank you at the end of a campaign. Gestures like that mean a lot. He gets called a gentleman because he was one.
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Got a lift from my dad back from a stag last night, real nostalgia, first late night lift from outside a pub in at least a decade that. My mates all said at the start of the day ‘I bet you’ll get drunk and tell him you love him’. I did and all.
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In ten minutes time, "Joy as an Act Of Resistance." is finally released into the world. Been proudly working with
@idlesband
for two years now and the whole team has worked so hard, but no one harder than the band themselves. Truly, they deserve everything coming their way.
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Very happy to announce that the brilliant
@bearcavingamy
will be joining our team at Prescription from next week! Thank you to
@MusicWeek
for the write-up:
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Really happy to now be working with
@thelemontwigs
, freshly signed to
@capturedtracks
. There's a string of effortlessly great songs to come this year, starting with this one:
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Has anyone ever taken a six month Sabbatical from work and then spent the entire six months playing Football Manager? Asking for a friend.
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Have wanted one of these since I was a boy so saved up and got myself a birthday present this year. Managed to get a quick play of The Simpsons and Golden Axe in before work...
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Enjoying this vintage photo from the NME awards where Brandon Flowers looks like an employee at Goldman Sachs who has posed with the busker outside reception.
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It would have been Scott Hutchinson’s birthday today. Like that cut from Owl John, here’s another lesser known of his, performed alongside Rod of
@IdlewildtheBand
for the Fruit Tree Foundation.
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If you’re curious to hear the new BC,NR songs post-Isaac - here’s eight of them. Mixed by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, they don’t miss.
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The best thing about this job is the unpredictability, the never knowing what you might hear each day or what might turn up in your emails. Love that buzz from listening to something that might be completely new to you but connecting with it immediately.
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Not sure I've ever been to The Scala and not got lost inside: it's like The Aztec Zone. Show me a man who has made the journey from standing area to bar to smoking room to toilet and back again without a wrong turn and I'll show you a liar.
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Just thinking about the time a pub we used to frequent bought a micro pig but it was nothing of the sort was it and it grew into a full sized pig instead. Insatiable appetite for crisps, like the best of us.
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Saw Parasite last night. Enjoyed it a lot but when the film finished a group of people stood and clapped. We weren't at the premiere, the director wasn't there, we were in Screen 4 above the Megabowl - sit down.
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Proper pleasure to set this one up, Stewart Lee had a good old chat with Mark & Joe of
@idlesband
for the latest edition of
@BigIssue
. This brilliant magazine, that could do with our support more than ever at the moment, is available to buy now from your local vendor.
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Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart getting straight to it in his memoir "Anything That Moves":
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If no more magazines or sites could close, that’d be good wouldn’t it? What a month.
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Last day today. Haven't done any achievement lists this year, not because there weren't things I was proud of, but because far and away the thing I'm most proud of is us keeping going and getting through what has been such an unforgiving twelve months. (1/2)
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Tesco delivery, open the front door, and our mate here is already at the bread
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Working on a schedule for a new artist, releasing a debut EP in September, and they'll have around 20 shows lined up between the first announce and then. And that's so utterly alien after this last year. But so good to see.
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Was sent something by a band today with no music out there, no socials etc. & yet they sound like the finished article already. Will never not get a buzz from that but feel like I'm not even surprised now when it happens, British underground music is in its best health in years.
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