Staff Profiles

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Lifting the lid off your editor aka Head of External Affairs

Head of External Affairs*

Describe a daily ritual.

Feeling hungry, foraging for food, preparing food, devouring food, feeling hungry...

What gets your support?

• Recycling
• Vision brilliantly executed
• Those who think for themselves

Name a guilty pleasure.

Spending too long under the power-shower.

Explain your pet hate.

Who came up with these questions??? Hate is too negative- but the list of irritations and disappointments endless!

What's your hidden asset?

Being able to shout extremely loudly.

Who's your first love?

My mum of course!

Can't live with out... Wilco's Jeff Tweedy

• Attention to detail
• Perspective
• Jeff Tweedy, Sam Cooke and Elliott Smith
• Knowing where to find the answer
• Geek updates
• The sea, the sky
• Putting one foot in front of the other
• A varied diet, fresh fruit and veg, home-made food prepared with love, food, food and more food.

*Illustration by ArtJaz

created on 2008-11-14 by shan.

Now is our Time Team addict Licensing Manager

Our Licensing Manager

Describe a daily ritual

Woken up by the Blue birds who have my hand stitched clothes and hair accessories ready and waiting, bed bath, nose picking, tube rage & exchanging friendly insults with Shaun Hendry. Oopps stepped into the real world and go to work, friendly abusive banter with Shaun, tube rage, home to the seven dwarfs who have a gorgeously healthy soup on the table and my bed linen freshly turned back for another good 8 hours beauty sleep.

What gets your support?

Victoria Beckham & Katie Price - Them girls know how to work it
Time Team

Name a guilty pleasure.

Time Team, fellow west country man Phil Harding is my favourite.

Explain your pet hate.

People who read your emails over your shoulder & who grab and read your magazine/newspaper before you have had a chance too...ooooh that annoys me.
OH and one other thing, when toilet rolls are put on the holders the wrong way... the tissue should come over the top not under (does this constitute as having an OCD issue?)

What's your hidden asset?

I love to bake cakes, especially chocolate ones - whilst in full Geisha costume.
Danny Zuko

Who's your first love?

Danny Zuko

Can't live with out...

Alice in wonderland but most importantly my family, they are stars.

created on 2008-10-09 by laura.

This month is our Hollyoaks & Magic FM loving Sync Manager

Describe a daily ritual.

Wake up… run bear foot across the plains of Wandsworth with my spear to catch the lesser spotted Tooting fog, extract the venom and mix up a potion and pray to the Gods of Sync that another pitch will be successful (and people think I’m late because I’m hungover!)

The Wombles

What gets your support?

The Uxbridge Arms
The talented bands/artists/writers that are part of the Bucks family.

Name a guilty pleasure.

Listening to Magic on the way home from work, The Hollyoaks Omnibus (its research!!), convincing my nephew that Wombles exist and some that only a Priest should know about…

Explain your pet hate.

My cats used to hate the dustbin men and would run & hide every Thursday when they heard the truck coming up our street.
Hollyoaks
Personally rude people, people who are not passionate, hot humid weather & Ben Elton.

What's your hidden asset?

I would like to think the millions in an off-shore account that even I know nothing about, but in reality its my original Rolfaroo.

Who's your first love?

A gentleman doesn’t kiss & tell

Can't live with out...

Music, friends, family, those little magic random moments in life such as bumping into an old friend, hearing a favourite song on the radio, spontaneous adventures…

created on 2008-09-24 by laura.

This month is our QPR Loving Accounts Coordinator

Describe a daily ritual?

Eyes open – Argue with myself over what day it is.
Go for a sing song in the shower.
Spend some quality time with my hair gel.
Jump on a train that’s 20 minutes late.
Graft like a trooper.
Get home, hug the cat and then hang with my homeboys.

What gets your support?

Queens Park Rangers FC. The Love of my life, despite the fact they break my heart nearly every week.
QPR

Explain your pet hate?

Ice Cubes that melt too quickly.
General supporters of Chelsea FC.
Oh and rain. Cause it usually messes up my hair.

Name a guilty pleasure?

I dabble in the occasional Malteser.
And if I am honest, I have dreamed and always will dream of one day taking a trip into Pat Sharps Funhouse.

What's your hidden asset?

Guilty Pleasure

If I told you, it would not be hidden.
But word on the street is I make the best cup of tea in the world. I owe it all to Typhoo tea bags.

Who's your first love?

That’s easy – Lego
Michaela Strachan used to always put a smile on my face.

Can't live with out...

QPR , Shaun Hendry’s weekly Bagels, and finally good shampoo. Just in case you were wondering, Herbal Essence is the best.

created on 2008-08-18 by laura.

Next up is our Copyright Manager and Ex-Eric Cantona Obsessive

Describe a daily ritual.

Our Copyright Manager

Alarm goes off about 7:30am, which is purposely set so i can snooze for AT LEAST 15 minutes (although if i wake up and my hair feels a tad greasy i'll haul myself out of my cosy bed and have a shower). Eat, get ready, and sit on a sometimes packed/smelly/sweaty bus to work. Turn on my computer, check my Facebook, check my work emails, and then figure out how the day is going to go....watch this space.

What gets your support?

RSPCA, NSPCC, British Heart Foundation, the list goes on. Oh, and Hollyoaks Men calendars, they get my full support!

Name a guilty pleasure.

:o)

Triple-whoppa-doppa burger on the days that AJ is in, Ben, Jerry, Jack, Daniel, Dolce, Gabbana (ads)...oh, and PC Calvin Valentine

Explain your pet hate(s).

People who ask questions before they even try to figure out the answer first. Oh, and people who never look for the positive in situations...like laughing when a bus splashes you with dirty puddle water.

What's your hidden asset?

I am an incredible break-dancer in my spare time...shame I don't have any spare time!

Who's your first love?

Object of Obsession

Now, don't repeat this to anyone (Sorry- we already have, Ed), but i used to be OBSESSED with Eric Cantona...although don't tell Frank "Boyfriend in a Box" Lampard that!

Can't live with out...

Friends & Family...all together now, ahhhhh.

created on 2008-07-15 by shan.

Introducing Our New, Smiley, Phish Food Addict Receptionist

Describe a daily ritual?

Alarm goes off, I press snooze. alarm goes off, I press snooze. alarm goes off, I run around like headless chicken!
Cheesy Grin!

What gets your support?

Breast cancer charities

Name a guilty pleasure?

Phish Food ice cream...oh wow!

Explain your pet hate.

People who look for the negative in every situation...PMA people!

What's your hidden asset?

My smile, apparently i can smile my way out of trouble :D

Who's your first love?

David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Philip Olivier

(I like to keep my options open!)

Can't live with out...

My mobile, facebook, oh and of course my fabulous friends!!

disclaimer: we cannot vouch for the veracity of these answers!!!!

created on 2008-02-07 by laura.

Introducing our Assistant to Our Accountant and Disco Dancing Queen

Nee Miss Hill

Describe a daily ritual?

Attempting to get out of bed.

What gets your support?

Ants at London Zoo: I donate half my salary every month to them as they work so hard all day and deserve every penny!

Explain your pet hate.

Ill-mannered individuals.

Name a guilty pleasure.

I go to Woolworths every Saturday and eat a Strawberry Bonbon from the pick'n'mix; I then leaving smiling with the pleasure of having bought nothing!

What's your hidden asset?

Disco dancing.

Who's your first love?

Let's stick to Chocolate.

Can't live with out...

Jaffa cakes: I love Jaffa cakes, the shape, the colour, the texture, the orange bit in the middle and the way it feels when it's in your mouth!

created on 2008-01-21 by shan.

First up is Fly Records' Label Manager & our resident trombonist...

Ahmet Guhagun

Describe a daily ritual.

Up at 6am - play the trombone then have a quick run along the Grand Union canal.

Get into the office and run through a quick Qadha prayer from the Qur'an, read from my Kindle or listen to a Qadha podcast on my iPod, whilst quaffing an intake of organic juice and nibbling dried fruit and going through new emails, handling a few unattended older ones & deleting anything in my mailbox in any way related to Bob 'Vainglorious' Lefsetz.

Quick searches on the net to check for unauthorised music being sold by counterfeiters / the social-networking-for-free-misanthropes.

Hugging our Fly Record's label manager is a much prized past-time amongst both staff and composers.

Walk around the office and give my colleagues a 'Good Morning' hug.

Phone calls & Skype contact with composers, artists, managers, journalists and industry colleagues.

Take a look at today's To Do list - but usually an urgent request for something (eg label copy and a master recording, regarding a licence) is received so the To Do list is shelved.

Check the latest report from our distributor, assess stock and repressings orders.

Listen to a few tracks from tapes recently digitised, have a meeting with a specialist consultant for an ongoing project.

Lunch break in Kensington Gardens where I take part in Ken Wong's Tai Chi class followed by a hot Chinese soup.

Back to the office.

Create barcodes and ISRCs for new releases, convert audio files to various kbps and lossless formats and various edits for various potential digital uses.

Read another quick verse from the Qur'an whilst having a cup of green tea.

Research some new leads regarding missing tapes and associated items and even some people linked to back catalogue masters.

Chase up matters from other companies which are outstanding.

Post a few packages for interested parties and associated people.

Compile tracks for our releases - and use Wikipedia for label copy.

Update the website with the latest news and goss.

Have a look at the label myspace site and despair at the waste of oxygen used by 99% of the people posting messages on our page and associated 'blogs'.

Read our separate Fly Records and Cube Soundtracks record label mailboxes and forward the glowing fan mail to my boss.

Blow THIS

Phone a few overseas associates and look at the untouched To Do list before filing my day's papers and notes from meetings and heading out for a night checking out some new music or old music or maybe a film.

Then off home and self-indulgently have some hot cocoa and play a long trombone solo.

What gets your support?

People who are comfortable with themselves and can converse without succumbing to LCD* vernacular and accents, innit.

Name a guilty pleasure.

Polishing my trombone.

Explain your pet hate.

Getting trombone polish all over the place.

What's your hidden asset?

My stock in eBAY, purchased in 1999.

Who's your first love?

Can't remember, most probably
Ayshea Broughor Dana Gillespie

Can't live without...

Bucks Music Group Ltd and it's lovely component elements.

*lowest common denominator

created on 2007-12-19 by shan.