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Darling Department closes, directors announce new companies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 30 August 2012
Artist management and music consultancy firm Darling Department has announced it is to close, with directors Dan Stevens, David Laub and Ed Cartwright forming two new companies. As previously reported, Darling shut its PR division in March this year, Cartwright telling CMU at the time: “Running an independent music PR company, in a landscape of declining fees and circulations, feels increasingly dispiriting”.
Cartwright has now announced the launch of a new management company for electronic artists, with a roster featuring Jamie Jones, Hot Natured, Ali Love, Infinity Ink and Invisible Cities. Stevens and Laub, meanwhile, have launched a new company together, First & Last Music, which will see them staying in both management and consultancy, looking after Natty, Foxes and Sam Frank as well as continuing to work on talent sourcing and music rights projects for companies such as Ray-Ban and Ralph Lauren.
Both companies will jointly manage Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.