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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

Have you not got a gold record?

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

Okay, so that means that you, so you signed Mike Flowers Pops and you genuinely, you know, you signed it, you were quick off the mark, you signed them, you spotted it was going to be a hit.

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

You are now a successful A&R man.

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

You are.

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

So you've brought in loads of money to the company and, you know, you've already got your free wheels.

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

So you're now an A&R man, which is like the coolest job in the company.

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

They're always A&R people are definitely the coolest.

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

So that means you're going out.

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

But did you feel like a pressure, like I have to sign something else and it has to be amazing?

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

It was gone.

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

Things seemed to move quite fast at that time, didn't they?

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

Who knew?

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

Well, you know, good on him.

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

He did well.

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

So as you said before, basically, you know, we've had a long Britpop build.

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

I would say, like, we have a great time.

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

95 is excellent.

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

96 is pretty good.

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

97 is when it all starts going.

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

I think the technical word is to shite.