My Beautiful Mistakes
In this series of weekly podcasts music industry veteran Andy Saunders interviews other top executives and entrepreneurs about their lives , their careers and about those times when things didn't quite go to plan. Intimate, funny, often thought provoking and inspiring, 'My Beautiful Mistakes' reflects on whether mistakes are necessarily a bad thing or whether instead they are simply opportunities to reflect, learn and understand ourselves better,
Episodes
16 episodes
Sergio Mottola - Co-Founder & CEO , Public Pressure
In this episode of My Beautiful Mistakes host Andy Saunders talk to Sergio Mottola , Co-Founder & CEO of Public Pressure.Public Pressure was originally launched in London in 2015 as an online community and magazine dedicated to givi...
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Episode 16
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53:56
Tom Allen & Richard Leach - Curve Royalty Systems
in this special edition of My Beautiful Mistakes Tom Allen and Richard Leach the co-founders of Curve Royalty systems talk about how they prefer to be known as entrepreneurial problem solvers rather than royalty geeks and how they built their c...
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Episode 15
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35:34
Tony Wadsworth CBE -Former Chairman & CEO, EMI Music UK & Ireland
Our final guest of 2020 is the Lancashire born, working class son of a window cleaner whose early academic promise saw him earn a scholarship to a good school and then a place to read economics at Newcastle University . It was...
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Episode 14
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1:04:35
Rell Lafargue - President & COO , Reservoir
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the pod – this latest interviewee has the distinction of being our first American guest – Rell Lafargue is the President and COO of Reservoir , one of the fastest growing and successful in...
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Episode 13
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53:12
Alan McGee - Founder , Creation Records
In this week's episode of 'My Beautiful Mistakes ' Andy Saunders talks to his one time boss and mentor Alan McGee. Born in Glasgow Alan moved to London in his teens to follow his dreams of playing in a punk rock ba...
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Episode 12
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45:38
Korda Marshall - Founder , Infectious Records
In this episode of 'My Beautiful Mistakes' we talk to Cornwall raised trainee architect , who came to London with his band searching for success only to end up in the music business . Korda Marshall talks to Andy Saunders about a li...
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Episode 11
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57:30
Mark Dayvd- Founder & CEO , Music Venue Trust
This week’s guest was born in West London and raised by a single mother before developing a serious, degenerative illness at just 11 years old – an overwhelming dislike of formal education and problems at home led to him leaving home at j...
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Episode 10
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56:37
Tim Ingham- Founder & Publisher, Music Business Worldwide
In this episode Andy Saunders talks to Tim Ingham , founder and publisher of the hugely influential music industry trade platform Music Business Worldwide (MBW), which is read by anyone who is anyone in the global music industry.
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Episode 9
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35:50
David Bianchi - Founder & CEO, Various Artists
This week's guest is a manager who has guided artist careers across extreme metal, punk, indie, mainstream pop and several other genres – a onetime self-confessed goth from Corby , a Midlands steel town, David Bianchi st...
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Episode 8
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1:02:02
Colin Lester- Founder & CEO , JEM Artists
This weeks' edition of the pod features one of the music industry's best known artist managers , a man never afraid to tell it like it is – the son of a holocaust survivor he was in a band that were managed by the legendary Don Arden, has...
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Episode 7
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1:10:59
Iain Watt - Managing Director, YMU Music
In this episode of My Beautiful Mistakes Iain Watt , Managing Director of YMU Music one of the world's leading artists management companies, talks us through his life and career. From his early days as a junior PR at Lynne Franks PR and Freud C...
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Episode 6
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1:03:22
Kenny Gates- Founder & CEO , [PIAS]
Kenny Gates was born the youngest son of an English father and a Belgium mother. Growing up in Brussels he discovered a love of independent music in the city's many record stores meeting his long-time business partner Michel Lambot in one that ...
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Episode 5
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46:21
Rak Sanghvi - Global President , Spirit Music Group
In this episode host Andy Saunders talks to Spirit Music Global President Rak Sanghvi about his journey from 4 year old Ugandan Asian refugee, escaping the terrors of Idi Amin , through medical school , a pivot into the law , a rise to become M...
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Episode 3
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1:00:18
Lohan Presencer - Chairman, Ministry of Sound
This week Andy Saunders talks to Ministry of Sound Chairman Lohan Presencer about the key moments and decisions that shaped his career. From his early days as the Entertainments Officer at Southampton University, his first job in t...
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Episode 2
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1:32:48
Mike Smith - Global President , Downtown Music Publishing
This episode of 'My Beautiful Mistakes' features host Andy Saunders in conversation with A&R legend Mike Smith, who at the time of recording had just been announced as the new Global President of Downtown Music Publishing. A 30-year veteran...
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Episode 1
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1:19:17
Alison Wenham - Former CEO , Association of Independent Music
Andy Saunders talks to Alison Wenham OBE , the Co-Founder and former CEO of The Association of Independent Music (AIM) and Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) . Starting life in the music industry behind the counter of a local reco...
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Episode 4
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44:53