THE WORLD CUP 2014 #DoUsProud

We are so pleased to have been part of the World Cup Campaign in support of the England's squad for this year's World Cup.

Teaming up with our friends at Platinum Rye, to create THE track in support of the England team did come with sleepless nights, long hours, back and forth emails with various different companies involved, a lot of hair-pulling and we'll admit.....some tears...BUT we are so glad to have been involved regardless.

We got the brief in from Plat Rye to find a cool, young indie band, where we scouted Dexters who fit the bill perfectly. 

Getting them in the studio, the lads re-recorded The Seekers hit 'I'll Never Find Another You' that quickly became loved by the agency involved in the campaign (Grey London) and The Sun Newspaper...and the rest is history!

The track is now the official England anthem for the World Cup and has gone down a storm with fans across the UK.

The track featured on The Sun's advert in the run-up-to the games of a line-up of footballers heading one ball down the line, with interviews of fans as well as the lead singer of the band Tom.

Dexters certainly did us proud, and we know England will too!

So pleased to have been a part of this!!

Check out the advert here: http://youtu.be/vv4ID3gtn5k

DOVE - A MOTHER'S BODY

#NEWPLACEMENTALERT

So as you all know we recently signed an exclusive publishing / management deal with the talented beauty that is Miss Sarah deCourcy. Not only have we been hard hitting A&R's and records labels, setting up writing session for her, she takes time out of her busy schedule to compose music to briefs we get in.

When this Dove brief landed at our door (or should we say on our laptops now we are in the 21st century) we knew Sarah could compose a piece as beautiful as the advert. Two sleepless nights, Miss deCourcy spent in her studio in Chiswick, composing, re-composing, editing, re-editing and she nailed it!!

For our beautiful USA Market, Mother's Day was early this Month, and this placement is a special show of appreciation of all the hard-working Mother's out there.

So here's to you beautiful Mother's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFsCzBX3kg&list=UUiRGcnL42atFc7bzNKDbTSQ&feature=share

SOHODOLLS 'STRIPPER' IN THE OTHER WOMAN TRAILER

ALERT!!

BIG PLACEMENT LANDED!

So ok we have landed a fair few Worldwide adverts recently....all of which are great....no doubt...but this placement is worth shouting about!!

We have landed our most-synced track 'Stripper' by the electro group Sohodolls, in #No1MovieInAmerica Trailer for the beautiful Cameron Diaz's latest film 'The Other Woman'.

Yes in the history of A&G, Stripper has been the most-synced track (Budweiser Crown Superbowl) for us, but we are super-excited about this placement. 

Check out the feature NOW! It's short and sweet but we love it...

http://vimeo.com/93674832

PERSEPHONE'S BEES

Good News Friday!!

We have landed a placement with a new beauty advert by Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic.

This beautifully sweet advert features the Sweet sounds of Persephone's Bees track "Nice Day" with the beautiful Model Amanda Kerr dancing along to it :)

Short and Sweet, straight to the point, but great to have in Japan!! (Only broadcast out there, so count yourselves lucky you get to see it)

Share, enjoy and have a nice day :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as56d406eoU&feature=share&list=UUiRGcnL42atFc7bzNKDbTSQ

GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 4

Game Of Thrones Season 4 is upon us!!!

And we know you are all excited to get stuck into it!

We are especially excited as we landed a placement in one their many Trailers! 

Our track was used in the HBO Screening 'Weeks Ahead Trailer' at their opening event.

Getting one of our most talented Composer's Cato to remix our Faroe Island Beauty Eivor track 'So Close To Being Free' for the Games, it was a sure winner!

Although we don't have visuals for the trailer just yet, as you know we can't spoil the season for you, we have seen it and it is AWESOME!! We are hoping to release the visuals very soon to you....trying with all our might!!

However we have released the track via iTunes, and you are most welcome to go download the track here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/so-close-to-being-free-single/id848427892

A&G SONGS SIGNS SARAH DECOURCY

We're both excited and proud to announce our Exclusive Publishing / Management deal with the incredibly talented Producer/Composer/Songwriter/Vocal Producer, Sarah deCourcy. (Is there anything this woman can't do?!) Sarah has worked with big names in the industry including Example, Hadouken! and Nicole Scherzinger (to name a few) and she also musical directed Kylie Minogue's 2008 X tour.

Her music is already being snapped up by TV and advertisement placements and we've experienced first-hand the effectiveness of Sarah's music as we placed one of her beautiful compositions alongside our new showreel video. Sarah is currently in the studio working with Levana Wolf on her debut album and Leo Stone's forthcoming EP (writing and producing).

We're anticipating big and exciting things for Sarah here at A&G so watch this space.....

Check out Sarah's brand new website HERE

MAZDA

Well we must be very appealing to Car Manufacturers right now.....first we bagged the New Mini Cooper advert with David Morris and his rendition of the classic "Post Horn Gallop" and now MAZDA!!!!

For Canada Only, we have landed Chelsea Automatic's 'A Feel In' in Mazda's latest advert 'Get It In Gear'. This ad is for their sale, and I reckon this will boost numbers :)

It's Short and Sweet.....Like this post

check it out HERE 

MINI COOPER LAUNCHES NEW ADVERT

So......WOW......

We have been waiting a while for this one and HERE IT IS!!!!

When the lovely Jesper Gadeberg...our Music Supervisor on this project...called us with the news on this, we were over the moon.

This AWESOME Advert features the fabulous David Morris, our World Championship Whistler, and his Arrangement of "Post Horn Gallop" written by Hermann Koenig.

This ad is offering the 'New Original' Mini Cooper featuring sports drive, gizmos & gadgets...the lot! 

We are so proud to be a part of this!!

Check the ad out HERE

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SKYSCANNER

Wow, now this placement we have got is a very exciting one if we do say so ourselves.

Not only is this Skyscanner's FIRST EVER....that's right....their first ever TV Advert, but it also features the voiceover of the lovely Matt Smith....that's right the old Doctor Who that everyone thought was a bit hit and miss.....well he has certainly been a hit with Skyscanner.

Ronnie Gesser's track 'If I could see the World through your eyes' has been covered (specifically for this advert) by the lovely Zara McFarlane and we love it. Check out her other stuff here

The ad has been created by the lovely people over at Leo Burnett Group who we think are just great 

So glad to be a part of this fantastic advert....check it out here

http://vimeo.com/85813041

LIZZIE BORDEN US TV SHOW

  

Woohoo.....an exciting Sync right here!!! We have landed our very own Kreeps track 'Pennsylvania Boarded House Blues' in the New US TV 3-part series of 'Lizzie Borden Took An Axe'; A story that re-enacts that of the young girl accused of the bloody axe murders of her parents played by the wonderful Christina Ricci.

  The show premiered on 'Lifetime Movies' last night, with the second episode airing tonight (9pm Lifetime) and is expected to be a hit!! We are very pleased to be a part of this!

Find out more HERE

And HERE is an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview with the crew and the wonderful Tony Scudellari, the Music Supervisor in awe of our track choice for the show

Universal Music Publishing Group Drops Song Search Tool First

   So we recently read in Music Week that Universal Music Publishing have launched their own Song Search Tool, which we were all (here at A&G) very unhappy to read.

We have been quietly developing our own UNIQUE BESPOKE Song Search Tool, all in-house, tailoring to our clients very needs. Any Song you want to search....can be searched...even the most obscure requests can be found on our platform.....we have catered to EVERYONE!!

 Yes we will admit, we were due to launch in the New Year, but have had a few teething problems. Nontheless......our is almost....ALMOST ready to go live & we can promise you that it will blow any of our competitors out of the water ;)

  Check out just some of its' AMAZING features:

- Advanced search tool by Genre, Tempo, Style, Mood, Vocal Style, Sounds-Like, Instrumentals etc

- Offers all Clearance information specific to each and every track. We state clearly where we are a One Stop Shop (clearing both Masters & Publishing of a track)

- We offer Lyrics to all our tracks, so you can pinpoint a lyrical search

- Access to THOUSANDS of titles, with no restrictions!!

- Tailored pages to our artists including Social Media Links, Bios, Pictures etc

Although it is such a shame that Universal dropped theirs before ours....but that's what us Independents take on the chin a lot of the time! We have not been disheartened by this....I can tell you that now! 

We are just more pumped to release ours and show everyone that Independent companies do things BETTER than the Majors!!!

Keep an eye out for it.......A&G Song Search Tool coming soon!!!! Exciting!!!