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Highlight(s) of your career so far?
The release of my book is at the very top, but
with Koopa we made music chart history and
that something that’s in the Guinness Book of
World Records. How we did it is another thing!
Bands I have managed like Twenty Twenty,
Loveable Rogues and Room 94 have all had
top 40 albums, which is great. I think the great-
est moment in my music career would be see-
ing Koopa open the 2007 Isle of Wight Festival
on the main stage.
If you could meet one of your inspirations
and ask them one question, who would you
like to meet and what question would you
Name, Age & Location: I wake up, drink some tea, check the news and ask?
Gary Raymond AKA The Seaside Cockney, Twitter then currently it’s book promo, so doing I would love to meet Bruce Lee and ask him
55, Chelmsford, not too far from London. a lot of interviews and radio. how do you truly find inner peace.

What do you do - or what do you aim to do? Best purchase that's helped to improve Advice to others that may want to follow in
I was a manager in the shark pool they call the your career? your footsteps?
music industry but now I am an author, poet My MacBook - could not live without it. Have a very thick skin and be prepared to be
and tweeter. ignored. You have to kick in doors (not literally,
Have you had any professional training or although I have) to get noticed.
How long have you been doing it for - and taken part in any courses to improve your
what made you choose this career? career along the way? Where do you go from here? Plans for the
I worked in the music industry for just over 10 No, when I worked in the music industry with future?
years. Not going to lie, I loved it but the lifestyle unsigned bands, everyday would be different I am going to start writing my next book and I
I chose almost killed me. These days I am writ- and you would have to think on your feet. I have a great idea on the subject matter. I think
ing and my bio ‘Blag, Steal & Borrow’ has just don’t think any kind of training can prepare you fans of bands and artists will love the concept
been released. for life in the music industry. I suppose some or maybe will hate me.
yoga and therapy would come in handy as it
What does a general working day or week gets very frustrating. Website for more info:
usually consist of? www.mrgaryraymond.com

F It’s not just bands that work hard, some fans do too! Every issue we shine the spotlight on a fansite. If you
devote your time to working on a website to promote a band, let us know about it... and we may feature you!
A Name: them.

N Rich Mosley and Liz Mosley How long does it take you to keep the

S Fansite Name: site updated? How much time do you
Airbourne Official UK Fansite
put into it?
The initial set up was fairly time consuming
I Why and when did you decide to start and at times like now, when an album is
coming out and tour dates are being an-
your fansite?
T We started the fansite in 2008, back in the nounced the time increases, but the time it
takes to keep the site running and updated
days of Myspace, picking up great support
is totally worth it, seeing Airbourne growing
for the Airbourne boys on there in the early
E days. We started the site to support Air- as a band, putting out fist pumping, adren- Tell our readers why they should visit
aline-fuelled rock’n’roll.
bourne and spread the word about them as
far and wide as possible. The first time we your site. What's it got?
On the website we bring all the latest news
ever heard Airbourne was a Saturday night Does the band know about it? Coolest including single and album releases, tour
F having beers listening to music TV and this thing to happen to you because of the dates and new merchandise. We have ex-
song came on that completely grabbed our
fansite?
clusive video interviews with the band and
attention, to hear old school Aussie rock at
Yes, the Airbourne boys and their manage-
O its finest, coming from a new band, we ment have all been very supportive right awesome competitions; in the past we’ve
given away everything from signed t-shirts
from the start, with them you get exactly
knew straight away we had to see them live
C and wanted everybody else to hear them what you expect – rockers to the core, they to Joel & Roadsy’s signed used gig train-
ers! Our Facebook and Twitter pages are
love their music, love their fans, there’s
too. We grabbed tickets to as many shows
also a great place for fans to get together
U as we could, the first being at Nottingham’s never a dull moment with them. The band and share photos, comments and experi-
have also given us some great things to
Rock City in February 2008, met the Air-
ences.
give away in our fansite competitions and
bourne guys there and were so blown away
S by the show that we knew we needed to do always find time to give us awesome inter- Website link:
anything we could to spread the word about
views for the fansite.
www.airbourneukfansite.co.uk
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