UPRAWR Podcast

Today’s guest is Mark Orr, the head of LAB Records, which he’s been running since 2005. In recent years, LAB has found major success with artists like The K’s, South Arcade, and many more.  We spoke with Mark about how he discovered and signed South Arcade, what it felt like to achieve LAB’s very first number one album with The K’s, and what the future holds for the label. From the sounds of it, t...

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast!  Today’s guest is Mat Welsh, guitarist for one of the UK’s biggest rock bands, While She Sleeps. Alongside playing guitar, Mat also manages the band and takes care of the business side of things.  We spoke to Mat about how While She Sleeps first started, the tipping point that turned it into a full-time career, and why staying DIY has been so important to their...

Today’s guest is Tim Bailey, currently Head of Label for International Affairs at Frontiers Music Group. Tim has had a long and varied career in the music industry, starting out as a promoter for over 15 years before eventually moving to the label side by joining Earache Records. We spoke with Tim about how he first became a promoter, why he dedicated 15 years to it, and the many challenges that c...

Today’s guest is Nelly Liger-Edinger, a driving force behind rock and metal’s presence on national radio. Nelly works at The Noise Cartel, one of the biggest PR companies in heavy music and she's the reason you’ve heard bands like Architects, Parkway Drive, Ghost and many more on BBC Radio 1. We talk to Nelly about how she got her start in music from teaching at a university in France to writing f...

Today’s guest is Dan Shepard, Studio Manager on the graphic design team at Live Nation and the Creative Lead for Download Festival. Yep, most of those iconic Download posters? He designed them. Ever wondered what it takes to be a professional graphic designer in the music industry? Or how the politics of festival posters work, like why some band logos are huge and others tiny?   We talk about: How...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast! Today’s guest is Lais martins Waring who currently works for LD Communcations one of the biggest PR companies in the world! We spoke to Lais about how she got started in music, how she ended up working at LD communications and what the job entails. We talk about what it’s like working on Download Festival & how you go about getting creators like TPD TV invol...

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast! Today’s guest is Eric Tobin, Executive Vice President of Business Development & A&R at Hopeless Records — a label that’s been pivotal in the careers of All Time Low, Neck Deep, and even Avenged Sevenfold. Eric shares the story of how he moved to California with no plan, landed a job at Hopeless Records without any prior industry experience, and went on t...

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast! Today’s guest is Emma Davis who is an agent at One Fiinix, working with the likes of Ed Sheeran! This one is special as it’s our first agent we’ve had on the podcast, now we can finally ask what's the difference between a promoter & an agent?? We spoke to Emma about how she got started in the industry, how she was booking big shows at only 15 years old a...

Today’s guest is Jenny Cotter who works for Live nation and is also part of the download festival booking team! Jenny’s had quite a career in music with starting off in PR before getting into Live events and working her way up We spoke to Jenny about how she got started in the industry, how she ended up working at live nation & what it’s been like joining the download festival team. She also talks...

AI is transforming how we make music, from writing lyrics and composing melodies to mastering tracks and generating vocals. But what does that mean for creativity, originality, and the future of the music industry? Who owns the copyright? in todays episode that's what we're going to be finding out Follow us to see Behind The Scenes:Jack - https://www.instagram.com/jack_uprawr/Joe - https://www.ins...

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast! Today’s guest is Josh Terry owner of “Work Shop management” that has bands like Mayday Parade & Amberlin signed to it. Josh also co-created “Sad Summer”, in the US, a touring festival that came about after the warped tour finished. Sad Summer has had some massive years with All Time Low even headlining the festival one summer  We spoke to josh about how he g...

Rox talks to us about how she wrote some hits songs one of which paid off a massive amount of debt but how the other ended up with her meeting the head of atlantic records

How much money do nightclubs make venues? what happens when the nightclubs close? Jack explains. Full episode is available now

Why have gen z stopped going out? nightclubs and bars around the UK are in decline and we want to find out why! This is abit of a bonus episode and not normally something we do so let us know if you like it!

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast! Today’s guest is Kevin Lyman who started the Vans Warped Tour, one of the most famous touring festivals in the world (could even be the most famous). Kevin started warped back in the 90s and ever since has created a hub for Alternative kids to get together every summer. Some of the biggest bands in the world were first discovered on warped like Blink, Fall out b...

Welcome back to the Uprawr Podcast! Today’s guest is Mark Walker who is currently managing acts like RØRY & Noahfinnce with his company Free Focus. Mark started free Focus after spending a decade as a promoter at Kilimanjaro where he accidently stumbled onto a “Youtuber” Event called Summer In The City and knew he had to get involved in what seemed like an untapped market at the time. Free Foc...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast! Today's guest is Patty who is the lead singer for the band “As It Is” Patty has had a very unique experience when it comes to becoming a musician as he started off making covers on youtube garnering millions of views and almost 500,000 subscribers! He knew from a very early age that he wanted to be in a band and As It Is quickly gained a ton of traction once the...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast! Today's guest is RØRY who’s just released her debut album at the age of 40 and has amassed a huge following over the past couple of years. Rox has one of the most interesting stories we’ve ever heard with giving up on music in her 20s feeling like the industry was a soulless, toxic place to writing genuine hits (we’re talking radio hits) that cleared her debt of...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast! today's guest is Niall Crisp who currently works at raw power management, one of the biggest management companies in the UK (Bring me the horizon, Don Broco, bullet for my valentine). Niall currently manages Bullet for my valentine full time and talks to us about what his job entails, how he got into the industry and ultimately how he got to work at Raw power. W...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast, today's guest is Steph Van Spronsen who’s worked with bands like falling in Reverse, Rammstein & has worked on some of the biggest festivals in the world! We speak to Steph about starting off at the noise cartel and being tasked to get people like Ronnie Radke into the country to then moving onto Live nation where she was booking bands for download festival!...

Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has filed a $200million lawsuit against their record label universal! The band have sold over 40 million records worldwide but are claiming that they have NEVER received a single royalty payment for their music In today's episode we want to take a look into what the lawsuit is about, how the band are able to sell 40 million records but still not be able to recoup their cos...

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast, today's guest is Gary Lancaster who's worked at or with every label you’ve ever heard of! Gary started off at warner with ADA working with labels like hopeless, rise, fearless and so much more. He’s worked on campaigns from motley crue to papa roach and also worked on the lil peep record were he tragically passed before the campaign had finished. We speak to Gar...

Sleep Token have just announced their first festival headline show. How have they grown so quickly? why would download festival offer them the slot and whats next for both? Well let's get into it

Welcome back to the Uprawr podcast! Today's guest is Alyx Holcombe who is currently working at Kerrang Radio Aswell as Radio 1 where she has two shows, the rock introducing show and the indie show. Alyx has been involved in radio for years and started her own punk show where she would platform new artists giving them the spotlight. If you’ve ever wondered how radio works behind the scenes or how y...

Taken from Episode 15 of the UPRAWR Podcast, Leander Gloversmith talks about how he found Neck Deep and started working with them early on