1978-79
the soft boys manager
concert promotions at venues in richmond surrey
cherry red records-a&r-art direction-press-international
tracey thorn, ben watt, everything but the girl, felt, monochrome set, marine girls, fantastic something etc
pillows & prayers budget priced compilation sells 750,000 copies and resides at number one in uk independent charts for record 36 consecutive weeks
instigated first independent re-issue programme-
can, neu, tv's avengers-patrick mcnee & honor blackman,john barry seven
1983-85
blanco y negro-co-founder with
geoff travis of rough trade through wea
everything but the girl, sudden sway, fantastic something, berntholer,
monochrome set
1985-89
el records-founder-art
director
would-be-goods, bad dream fancy dress,
king of luxembourg ,momus, shock headed peters, vic godard, marden hill,
louis philippe, anthony adverse etc
(label influential on shibuya scene
in japan-cornelius, kahimi karie,pizzicato five etc)
1989-94
football book publications 'shot' &
'this is soccer'
with doug cheeseman for 'when saturday comes'
football film 'brazil 70-the sexiest kick-off'-co-directed
with douglas hart for bbc tv
football film 'bend it!' co-directed with douglas hart for trattoria sound
tokyo
football song compilations 'bend it!' and 'flair' for exotica and confection
1995-
if...records-founder
songs for the jet set compilations (three volumes)
death by chocolate (first album reaches number two on usa cmj200)
david candy (with make-up vocalist ian svenonius), margo guryan, orson
welles,loveletter
1996-
reverie children's label through siesta of madrid-founder
algebra spaghetti & simultaneous ice-cream,dream drops compilations
lollipop train,maria napoleon,mild euphoria
1999-
el graphic co-founded with doug cheeseman
poptones art direction
