Why start a record label? How do you even get one off the ground? Is your day filled with sexy A&R meetings, scouting out live gigs, and shaking hands with big wigs in boardrooms?
Or is it frantically searching for artists to sign, shelling your latest releases on bandcamp, and marketing until your eyes bleed.
Well, it’s all of the above and at the same time more often than not. Chris Massey, label owner at Sprechen lifts the lid on the life of a label owner.
He talked to us about founding the label, striving for diversity in his releases, and working at the cutting edge of some of Manchester’s biggest brands.
He shares some lovely stories from playing at Kiss Me Again, Beat-Herder Festival, and The Refuge and speaks about his own musical journey starting in Bolton and ending in with this podcast!.
Chris also dishes out advice for anymore looking to start their own label. If lockdown has left you with a surplus of resources you want to pile into a new project and label management takes your fancy check this show out.