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Miranda Sawyer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1727 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And basically you try and box him in or hold on to his coattails because he's going to do what he's going to do.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

Yeah.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And you got in there?

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

But A&R, I mean, A&R is really interesting.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And when you describe it in Kill Your Friends, because obviously Kill Your Friends is like a satire of the music industry.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

But it's also, in order for anything to be a satire, it's really accurate.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

You know, like, so everything is exaggerated.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

I mean, there's terrible murders in it.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And there's like, you know, appalling sexism and racism and everything like that.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

But...

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

The actual kind of structure of what the main character, Stephen Stelfox, is doing is exactly like A&R.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

He's doing A&R.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And that is from your experience.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

And the main thing that comes across about it is the kind of look of it.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

So everybody who's doing A&R thinks that they've got brilliant ears.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

Like we all do.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

I think I've got amazing ears.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

I'd be brilliant at A&R.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

I can recognise a pop song.

Talk โ€™90s to me
Cash, cocaine and chaos โ€“ The mad, bad โ€™90s music biz with author John Niven

Do you know what I mean?