Drew Hill
MD

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Lollapalooza, 1997, Kansas City

What is the first release bought? Giving away my age here, Now 12!

Erica Day
Head of Client Services

What is the first release you bought?
Prodigy – Out of Space (single cassette)

Have you ever worked in a record shop?
Yes, Our Price in Eltham

Pat Howe
Head of Sales

What is your favourite album? Frank Sinatra –
In the Wee Small Hours

Can you play an instrument? Bad rhythm guitar

Dan Hawkins
Head of Operations

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Oasis at Earls Court, 1997

What is your favourite album?
Foo Fighters – The Color and the Shape

Sarah Brown
Head of Label Management

What is your favourite album?That’s such a hard question!
Probably ‘Super Shitty To The Max’ by The Hellacopters and ‘Seventeen Seconds’ by The Cure

What was your first job in the music industry?
Indie sales rep

Jonny Blyth
Head of Digital

What is your favourite album? Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

What is the best gig you’ve attended?
In front of stage at Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes debut album launch at The Borderline then bumping into him downstairs later on.

Vangel Vlaski
Head of Business Development

What is the first release bought? A cassette tape of the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa with my lunch money

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Pohoda Festival, Slovakia, 2013

Del Sawers
Senior Label Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended?
Television @ All Tomorrow’s Parties Camber Sands 2001

What is the first release bought? Blondie “Union City Blue” and Dennis Waterman “I Could Be So Good For You” 7″ singles

Jon Griffiths
Senior Label Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended?
The Who performing the entire Quadrophenia album at Wembley Arena in 1996.

What is your favourite movie? Beverly Hills Cop. It also has the best soundtrack.

Gray Warner
Senior Label Manager

What is your favourite album? The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

What was your first job in the music industry? Intern at Asylum Records

Ruth Knowles-Clark
Label Manager

What is your favourite album? Strauss: Four Last Songs (Gundula Janowitz, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Von Karajan) on DG

What is your favourite movie? The Big Lebowski

Greg Phillips
Label Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended?
Les Savy Fav and Pulled Apart by Horses @ Heaven, or Arctic Monkeys @ Plug in Sheffield.

What is the first release bought? London Boys – The Twelve Commandments of Dance LP

Lynn Lancaster
US Label Manager

What was your first job in the music industry? Accounting and Inventory Control at Sugar Hill Records.

What is the first release bought? With my own money-Emmylou Harris ‘Elite Hotel’

Iain Murray
Press Officer

What is the best gig you’ve attended? McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson at The Barbican, London, July 2002

Have you ever worked in a record shop? No, although I’ve helped a few people out in record shops with suggestions when they didn’t know what to buy for somebody!

Greg Soder
Sales Representative

What is the best gig you’ve attended? So hard to choose one! For the effect it had on me at the time, probably And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead at the Astoria in Feb 2002

What is your favourite movie?
Shawshank Redemption

Dan Gilbert
Sales Representative - Dance Specialist

What is the first release bought? Now That’s What I Call Music One

Can you play an instrument? What? Yes, 2 x Technics SL1200 mk2’s

Jon Blackburn
Sales Representative

What is your favourite album? Elvis Presley’s From Elvis In Memphis (1969) /Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On (1973) / The Staple Singers Be What You Are (1973) / The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)

What is the best gig you’ve attended? I saw Lynden David Hall at The Jazz Cafe when I was 17 and he was 25. Only true great I’ve ever seen in their prime!

Christine Chinetti
International Manager

What is your favourite album? Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen ( tough choice but enduring love affair; a school friend introduced me and I’ve clung to his every word ever since)

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Kraftwerk Brixton Academy, World Tour 2004

Martin Daniels
National Accounts Manager

What is your favourite album? Exile On Main Street – The Rolling Stones

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Iggy Pop – Royal Albert Hall 13/05/2017 (supergroup lineup of Iggy, Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme, Homme’s band mates Dean Fertita and Troy Van Leeuwen, and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders)

Stewart Allan
Account Manager

What is your favourite album?Kate Bush –
Hounds of Love

Have you ever worked in a record shop? – After more than thirteen years of service in various Scottish stores – sample customer request: “Have you got that song from the radio? It’s got ‘Love’ in the title?”-I was more than ready to ‘retire’ to hmv’s London HQ

Graham Jones
Sales Representative

What is your favourite album? Clara Luzia – Falling into Place

What is your favourite movie? I should say Last Shop Standing having had to sit through it 70 times but will go for Midnight Express

Dave Webb
Ecommerce Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Underworld – Manchester Apollo 1999 (Electronic) | Pink Floyd – Main Road 1988 (Rock)

What was your first job in the music industry? Sales Assistant in HMV

Simon Robins
Stock Control Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Janes Addiction at Subterranea London,
August 1990

What is your favourite movie? Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Sandra Cucic
Stock Control Operative

What is your favourite album? ACDC – Back in Black

What is your favourite movie? Apocalypto

Corina Sullivan
Stock Control - Hub Accounts

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Alice Cooper – Cropredy Festival

What is the first release you bought? Green Day –
Dookie

Elise Walton
Distribution Client Services

What is the best gig you’ve attended? It has to be Elliott Smith at The Royal Festival Hall

What was your first job in the music industry? Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus

Rob Hutchison
Wholesale Manager

What is your favourite album? There can only be one… Slayer’s Reign in Blood

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Metallica – 100 Club Oxford Street August 1987 – secret gig under the name Damage Incorporated.

Jon Hughes
Wholesale Manager

What is the first release you bought? Let’s Dance – David Bowie

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Prince Lovesexy Tour at Wembley Arena

Scott Gardner
Warehouse and Facilities Manager

What is your favourite album?
The Verve – Urban Hymns

What was your first job in the music industry?
Cee Dee Sales AKA Proper Music Distribution Ltd (now)

Stef Videlingum
Warehouse Assistant Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended? The best gig I have attended was Avicii in Las Vegas and Frank Carter in Chatham Kent

What would your superpower be? My superpower would be to read peoples minds

Simona Barkauskyte
Warehouse Assistant Manager

What is your favourite album? My first (and still favourite) release I bought was Prodigy – The Fat of the Land!

What would your superpower be? Endurance, strength or resilience

Asta Vakarinaite
Warehouse Assistant Manager

What was your first job in the music industry? My first job in the music industry is at Proper Music

Glen Johnson
Project Manager

What is your favourite album? Kraftwerk – ‘Computer World’

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Fugazi, Marcus Garvey Centre, Nottingham, 1990

Ben Bowdler
Creative Services Manager

What is the best gig you’ve attended? Blur at Wembley Arena, 1995

What is your favourite movie? Fight Club or maybe Return of the Jedi!