If you need help with “getting the shop in order” with your music career, need to develop a plan but don’t know where to start or have reached a point in your career where you aren’t sure where to go next, then there is a place you can turn…
Music Business Management (MBM) provides the following services:
-artist consultancy
-artist career planning and advice
-advice on markteing and promotion
-independent label consultancy and advice
-business structure advice
-business system and procedure reviews
-book-keeping – accounting setup, ongoing book-keeping, BAS, end of year preparation, internal review of accounts
-Business “set-up” – ABN, Business name registration, domain name, accounting templates,registration with appropriate organisations etc
-royalty accounting (independent labels)
and more.
The partners in MBM are:
Richard Roberts
Richard is originally from the UK where he founded iconic independent label Too Pure. Too Pure was one of the most prominent independent labels of the 90’s, discovering and developing the careers of such artists as PJ Harvey, Stereolab and The Faith Healers. Once he left Too Pure, Richard moved to Australia where he ran the Festival Records imprint label “FIDO”, home to Gerling and sonicanimation. He has since become owner of a number of Sydney based businesses.
Peter Bayliss
Peter has a varied background – artist management, promoting, booking, and …finance. The current Chairman of the Music Managers Forum Australia, Peter has managed such artists as Big Heavy Stuff, David McCormack and Genevieve Maynard, as well as running Indyfest in the ACT for the past 4 years. Peter has also worked as booking agent for artists including Gina Villalobos (USA), Andy White (Ireland), Karma County, and The Devoted Few. His Finance career has included being Group Financial Controller, Finance Manager and Audit team leader.
To contact MBM:
Peter 0418 458 457 or sunflowerent@hotmail.com
Richard 0413 486 234″