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2M nets Simple Kid as priority for 2003. (Talent).
Independent label 2M Recordings has beaten off competition from a number of major labels to sign up-and-coming artist Simple Kid to a long-term deal.
The deal is a coup for the fledgling label following recent uncertainty over its future, prompted by a series of changes at Ministry of Sound, which is a minor stakeholder in the label.
"We're 150% up and running with the label and are raring to go," says 2M CEO Cheryl Robson, the A&R veteran who has previously worked at East West Records and Virgin's Innocent imprint. 2M's main outside funding comes from VCI, part of the Woolworths Group, with Ministry holding a minority stake. "We have a very different set-up to many other joint ventures that Ministry is involved with," says Robson.
Irish-born Simple Kid--aka Ciaron McFehilly--is managed by Richard Lowe and Martin Patton of MRM Productions, who also managed Catatonia. The artist released two singles in 2002, I Am Rock and Truck On, through Simon Williams' Fierce Panda singles label. Both singles were awarded single of the week status by Radio One's Mark & Lard, as well as being ...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) April 6, 2003 700+ words
...else was trying to sign the kid." Robson believes that Newcastle skipper...and he's taken it." And Robson believes the Rooney hysteria...things have been said about the kid and rightly so," added Robson. "It will have motivated him...
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...City to The Hawthorns - and Robson's name was absent despite...but it wasn't long before Robson's name was the first on the...forgave me! 'Bryan was just a kid at the time, he was only 17...Wile, now 57, believes Robson's appointment in succeeding...
