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James to work with both BMG and Cooking Vinyl on new album
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 20 February 2014
James have confirmed that they’ll continue to – wait for it – ‘sit down’ with BMG for the release of a brand new album – look at that, all night at the BRITs and I’m still producing comedy gold. You’re welcome.
Actually, the Manchester band are doing even more sitting down with BMG, though at the same time plan to do a little lounging over at Cooking Vinyl too, which would be a lot easier to communicate if I hadn’t started off with this ‘sit down’ thing.
Basically, James, who did a publishing deal with BMG back in 2012, are now extending their partnership with the firm to cover recordings, though in an interesting arrangement that will see BMG’s artist services team work with indie label Cooking Vinyl on the release of the band’s next long player.
And, as Cooking Vinyl chief Martin Goldschmidt notes: “On paper BMG and Cooking Vinyl are competitors and that is what makes this a landmark deal, offering James the combined strengths of both companies. We have already started working together on James and it already feels like a smooth, efficient well-oiled machine”.
Meanwhile BMG UK boss Alexi Cory-Smith told CMU: “James have delivered an extremely strong record, and in line with BMG’s commitment to partnering with the independent sector, we are delighted to be working with Cooking Vinyl, one of the world’s leading independents”.
And long-standing James manager Peter Rudge added: “We’re thrilled that BMG and Cooking Vinyl have joined together to market and release this record. The global assets of BMG combined with the specific expertise of Cooking Vinyl, one of the UK’s leading independents, is a powerful combination”.
