President of Palm Tree Records (Kygo’s joint venture with Sony Music), manager of EMBRZ, plus an epic varied history w music journalism (including Billboard), David Rishty - we’ll call him Dave from now on - has smashed many parts of the ‘making a living from music thing’.

He shares lessons learnt from all those different sides of his career here, how to write the perfect pitch email, plus why you need to work out what emoji you are.

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Episode Features:

• The importance of self-reflection, and knowing who you are as an artist.
• Why being ‘scrappy’ is so important at the start - and a great example of that.
• The best way to do a cold email / DM to a music industry human.
• And how often you should follow up.
• Building relationships is more important than building ‘contacts’.
• The power of storytelling.
• Dave’s favourite ways to discover new music rn.

New episodes every Monday.

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