The Team

GEORGE DONOGHUE

Areas George can help you with

• Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Production and Mix mentoring. 

• Project planning and career development

• Business planning and development 

• Teaching Practice

DANNY HARVEY

Areas Danny can help with:

• Tour Management: Everything you need to know about being a TM, teaching what to expect, what is expected of you and how to handle the unexpected.

• Touring Logistics: Set your tour up for success before you hit the road

• Live Sound/Audio Engineering: Patch the stage run the in-ear monitors and mix the show. How to do it in any room from small club to massive arena.

• Band management: Strategies to position your band in a competitive market, create budgets that work, and make better decisions for the future.

• Career Development: How to achieve the career you want

PAUL MARC ROUSSEAU

Areas PMR can help you with:

Have some ideas but can’t get them across the finish line? Stuck in a creative rut and want a way out?

• Songwriting and arrangement for the digital world

• Lyrics and hooks that land

• Improving your workflow and decision making

• Strategies for overcoming writer’s block

• Taking your demo from your bedroom to the studio

• How to stay (somewhat) sane on tour

• Unspoken rules of the road

• Live performance tips 

• Dealing with stage fright/anxiety 

MICHAEL MCGOUGH

Michael McGough is known for his work in both acts Being As An Ocean and Heart Of Gold.

Areas Michael can help :

 - Songwriting / song arrangement

- Writing lyrics and finding your story

- Working on your song release strategy

- Overcoming your writers block

- Creating a ‘bedroom’ demo thats studio ready

- Mental maintenance in the studio and on the road

- Keeping your voice in check in the studio and on the road

- Live performance tips, from warm ups to the encore

JAY HUNTLEY

Areas Jay can help you with

• Artist Development

• Tour Booking

• Show Booking

• Venue Management

• Event Management

• Tour Management

• Release campaign Strategies

• Independent Label Management

• Merchandise Production

SIMON GALLACHER

Areas Simon can help :

• Tour management

• Promoter repping

• Tour logistics

• Comedy shows

• Tour advancing

• Festival / site work (various aspects)

• Well-being on tour

• Tour accounting

• Stress management

• Personal development within the music industry

• Future technology – blockchain, cryptocurrency, AI, etc.

CAM BIRCHILL

Areas Cam can help with:

• Tour Management: Accounting, Scheduling, Day of Show tasks, etc.

• Touring Logistics: Advancing, Budgets, Transportation, Lodging, etc.

• DIY Touring Solutions: How to tour on a budget (domestic & international)

• Canadian P1/P2 Visa Processing: How to get a work visa for Canadian artists

• Artist Management: Developing young and aspiring artists

• Concert Promotion: How to put on local shows.

GARETH GROVER

Areas Gareth can help you with

• Drum kit and percussion tuition - styles & genres / techniques / rhythmic concepts / songs

• Advanced instrumental skills - improvisation / how to practice / working with a click

• Music theory tuition - general music theory / application in tuned percussion context

• Performance skills - understanding performance communication

• Studio session skills - understanding your role / studio musicianship / technical knowledge

• Home-studio recording - understanding drum kit recording / Logic Pro X

• Your life in the music industry - mindfulness mentoring / life on the road

IAN COULSON

Areas Ian can help you with

• Video Editing Tutorials - From basic cutting and storytelling to intricate, complex transitions, effects and colour-grading

• Photo Editing Tutorials - From how to fine-tune composition in post to re-touching and creating your own personal look.

• How to Brand Yourself - How to make your work stand out whilst remaining relevant and up to date on trends.

• Networking Advice - How to break out of the "can't work til I network, can't network til I work" cycle.

• From Concept to Creation - How to create an effective workflow, from storyboarding and planning an edit pre-shoot, through shooting, all the way to asset management in post-production and nailing the right export settings.

BENJAMIN LANGFORD - BISS

Areas Ben can help with:

• Music industry advice

• Building your brand/image

• Planning album campaigns 

• Songwriting

• Production in Logic Pro X

• Social Media Marketing

SAM RUSHTON

Areas Sam can help you with

• Career Development: Getting Your Band From A-B Within The Current Music Industry 

• On The Road: How To Plan & Run A Successful Tour From A DIY Artists Perspective

• Networking: How To Know The People You Need To Know

• Professional Musicianship: Guitars, Pedalboards, Songwriting & More

NICK EVANS

Areas Nick can help you with

• Composing for other people - writing to brief for tv, film and adverts

• Creative strategies - getting out of ruts and overcoming writers block

• Writing music to moving image in your DAW

• Using Logic to write great sounding tracks in a short turnaround 

• Extensive Knowledge of plugins and sample libraries.

TOMMY PEACH

Areas Tommy can help you with

• Practice and Application of various levels of music theory to help with composition and performance.

• Improvisation.

• Studio musicianship (session playing).

• Professional Performance.

• Advice and help with gaining session work. 

• Styles and genres in practice and application.