Nick Stewart & Associates Ltd Independent Marketing, Management and Publishing for the Music Industry

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Music industry veteran Nick Stewart, who signed U2, Killing Joke and The Long Ryders to Island Records has launched an independent consultancy.
His career, spanning nearly 30 years, includes stints at Island Records, Polygram, Sony BMG and Warner Music. He has worked with, amongst others, Robert Palmer, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, Blondie, Lonestar, The Eagles, Echo And The Bunnymen, The Storys, New Order, Thin Lizzy, Sir Elton John and Dire Straits.

Nick Stewart and Associates focus on 3 main areas:

Marketing Consultancy
Overseeing and instigating the marketing and promotion of new releases and catalogue titles. At present our client list include The Eagles, U2, Neil Diamond, Vangelis, and Don Henley.

Management Consultancy
Management role with The Eagles and Neil Diamond via Azoff Management, and Vangelis.
Music Publishing
NS%26A have set up a publishing company for aspiring young songwriters. This division is also responsible for exploiting the catalogue of Sir Tim Rice.

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Christie Hennessy
NS%26A are proud to represent one of Irelands premiere singer / song writing talents who has created an amazing legacy of heart warming songs from his fabulous repertoire of albums which will surely endure for many years to come.
For further information please see www.christiehennessy.com
New Kids On The Block
NKOTB are back. The original band members returning for the first time in 14 years with their reunion album "The Block", once again they look ready to conquer the world.
They have worldwide sales of over 70 million to date and their latest album will be released by Interscope via Universal on September 2nd. A deluxe version of the record will also be issued boasting an additional four tracks. The band will be in the UK from 7th September where they will be carrying out a full schedule of promotional activities.
For further information check out their website www.nkotb.com
Pearl Jam
Formed in Seattle, Washington USA in 1990, Pearl Jam have been astounding audiences with sell out electrifying concerts and amassing an incredible worldwide sales of over 60 million records in their career.
They have completed a recent 13 date tour of the U.S including a headlining of the Bonnaroo Music Festival.
For further details check out their official website www.pearljam.com
U2
U2's first concert video, Live At Red Rocks, will be released on DVD next month, along with the accompanying live album, Under a Blood Red Sky. Recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on 5th June 1983, Live at Red Rocks will be available for the first time on DVD, and will include 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix.
The remastered Under a Blood Red Sky album was originally released in November 1983, and consists of live recordings from three shows on the band's War Tour through Europe and America.
A deluxe version featuring the Under a Blood Red Sky CD and the Live At Red Rocks DVD will be available, as well as single disc formats of the CD and DVD. An LP version of Under a Blood Red Sky pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl will also be released by Mercury via Universal on 29th September.
For further information check out the bands official website www.u2.com
Hermione Hennessy
Since the age of four Hermione Hennessy has been involved in music. A classically trained pianist, singer and songwriter, she performed alongside her father Christie Hennessy from a very young age in folk clubs, theatres, music festivals and stadiums. Managing him from the age of 21, she subsequently achieved a number of chart-topping hit duets throughout the 90's in Ireland and has since continued to perform and song-write for others. Alongside her career in the record and management business working with a wide range of artists from Groove Armada to Cascada and Aled Jones to Justin Timberlake, she is currently recording her first solo album 'Songs My Father Taught Me' for release in spring 2009.

Nick Stewart

A Sort of a Homecoming

22 St Peter's Square has a permanent place in the annals of English Rock Music. An extraordinary plethora of talent began their careers in this spacious, leafy square in Chiswick; Steve Winwood and Traffic, Robert Palmer, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, U2, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny; this list merely scrapes the surface.
Nick Stewart started at Island Records in August 1979, (coincidently the week that "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles became Island's first number one single). His first two signings were U2 and Killing Joke; his next two signings were the Thompson Twins and The Teardrop Explodes featuring a young Julian Cope. Sadly the founder, Chris Blackwell disliked the Thompson's Twins name so much that he tore the contract up in frustration and stopped the Teardrop Explodes deal going through only to sign Julian Cope, the enigmatic frontman four years later.
In the intervening 28 years Nick Stewart has worked alongside many great artists, in A%26R, Marketing, Catalogue Exploitation and Management. It is a career that has embraced Island, Stiff, EG, where he had his first brush with management, looking after The Smiths, and then onto Polygram where he co-ordinated the re-issue of that company's entire catalogue from LP and cassette to CD in the early 90's. He re-issued and re-packaged catalogues of Elton John, Dire Straits, Big Country, Thin Lizzy, Rod Stewart, Dusty Springfield, Burt Bacharach, Squeeze and Dexy's Midnight Runners. He prepared and orchestrated highly successful TV campaigns for Burt Bacharach, Thin Lizzy, New Order, Happy Mondays, Grace Jones and Dusty Springfield. He launched a successful, bespoke compilation label, Debutante and was responsible for creating a highly successful line of own brand compilations and artist repertoire into Marks %26 Spencer's for the very first time. From a standing start from 1996 this became a £4m business within 18 months.
In 1998 he was appointed Senior Vice President of International A%26R to BMG and within 9 months had scored 3 number one singles with Blondie's "Maria" and Lou Bega's "Mambo No 5", which he also placed with Channel 4's TV cricket coverage, before going onto remix Lonestar's country smash "Amazed" which resulted in them having a number 1 on the Billboard pop charts, the first country act to do so for 14 years.
It was during this time he launched his highly successful Captain America, Virgin Radio show, which ran on Sunday nights for four years. It became a focal point for American artists to promote their wares in the UK rivalling Bob Harris and Paul Gambaccini on Radio 2.
In 2005 he was invited to run Rhino UK the catalogue arm of Warner Music which brought him back into contact with his old friend and mentor, Irving Azoff and The Eagles.
In 2007 he was involved in setting up the phenomenally successful The Travelling Wilbury's re-issue which surprised the industry with its volume and overall success. Built around the sales spike of Father's Day, it created an industry benchmark.
In October 2007 he set up Nick Stewart %26 Associates, a consultancy which incorporates marketing, catalogue exploitation, publishing exploitation in synchs and licences, and management. The client list as at February 1st includes The Eagles, Don Henley, U2, Vangelis, Neil Diamond, Fremantle TV, the TV Show, Live From Abbey Road, and Sir Timothy Rice. Where the Artists are concerned, NS%26A loyed by the managers to work closely with the record companies involved, ie Universal for U2 and The Eagles, Warners for The Eagles catalogue and Vangelis, and Sony BMG for Neil Diamond and Vangelis.
NS%26A is a small, intimate, bespoke company which delivers a highly personal service to the artists that are on their roster. There is experience alongside youth and innovation.
Our first major project was to oversee the first Eagles studio album for 28 years, "Long Road Out Of Eden" has now sold 2.2 million internationally and regarded as an extraordinary success. We are currently engaged in a two year programme of reissuing the U2 catalogue dealing with Universal and Principle Management, U2's management company and we are also overseeing the UK and International release of the Neil Diamond album to be released in May.
We are also retained by Nordoff Robbins, the Music Therapy Charity as their auctioneer and chief fundraiser.

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