- Date.
- 01 September 2009
- Publication.
- News
- Author.
- Balderton
Snow Patrol enter publishing business
Snow Patrol have formed their own publishing company and made their first signing in a move to create a company “run by artists for artists”. Polar Music will operate entirely independently of the Ulster band’s own deal with Universal Music Publishing and will be administered by Kobalt Music in London.“As a band we know how difficult it can be to get a break in this business,” says drummer Jonny Quinn, who will perform A&R functions alongside fellow members Nathan Connolly and Gary Lightbody. “We get given CDs by new artists and writers all the time and have talked about how we could help the best of them move up. Forming a publishing company seemed the obvious way to go.”
Polar Music’s debut signing is multi-instrumentalist Johnny McDaid from Northern Ireland who is currently writing with top German trance DJ Paul Van Dyke for an album due next year.
Kobalt’s executive vice president Sas Metcalfe believes the Snow Patrol venture will mean “signing some very talented songwriters”.
* Contrary to the report in last week’s issue of Music Week, Kobalt was the top-ranking UK-based publisher in the US Top 10 airplay charts during Q2.
