Senior Management
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
Louis Mills
Head of People
What is the best gig you’ve attended? Brian Wilson, Glastonbury 2005
Can you play an instrument? I play the drums, does that count?
Label Management
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
Vangel Vlaski
Label Manager
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
Sarah Brown
Label Manager
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
Jon Griffiths
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
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
Alice Mills
Product Manager
What is your favourite album? TOTALLY depends what mood I’m in! This week: Expecting to fly – The Bluetones
What is your favourite movie? Indiana Jones (all of them!)
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!
Digital
Jonny Blyth
Digital Manager
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.
Sales
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
Sean McDonnell
Irish Sales Representative
What is the best gig you’ve attended? Jethro Tull “Stand Up” tour
What is the first release bought? Otis Redding – Dock of the Bay
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
Stock Control
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
Mihaela Dumitru
Stock Control Admin
What is your favourite album? Adele – 21
What is your favourite movie? Troy
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
Wholesale
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
Melinda Oros
Wholesale Buyer
What is the best gig you’ve attended? Linkin Park iTunes festival in 2011.. best day of my life!
What is your favourite movie?
Avengers – Infinity War and Endgame
Evelina Kiviliute
Wholesale Supervisor
What is your favourite album? Arctic Monkeys – AM
What is your favourite movie? Pearl Harbour
Warehouse Management
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
Lorin Vlasa
Warehouse Assistant Manager
What is the best gig you’ve attended? Jazy-Z & Beyonce – On The Run Tour II
What is your favourite album? 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’
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
Proper Records
Gary Harries
Label Manager
What is the best gig you’ve attended? Six Of The Best – Milton Keynes Bowl 2nd October 1982.
Can you play an instrument? What?
No I can’t. I SAID NO I CAN’T.
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
Online Content 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!