Crimson Gentle x Atlantic: Contained in the administration agency’s new songwriting camp for UK hitmakers | Administration

Crimson Gentle Administration has launched its songwriting camp collection with an inaugural week-long occasion for Atlantic artists at RAK Studios in London.

The administration agency, which just lately aligned with Tyler Brown’s Funfair Administration, is constructing a big enterprise with songwriter and producer purchasers. Brown and Crimson Gentle’s James Sandom just lately spoke to Music Week in regards to the growing opportunities in the songwriter space, notably at a time when industrial dance music is booming.

Crimson Gentle and Funfair shopper Lewis Thompson was a joint winner of the Songwriter Of The Yr trophy on the ASCAP London Music Awards.  

Crimson Gentle introduced collectively hitmakers from its roster with Atlantic’s artists to ship greater than 20 data for the label in the course of the writing camp. In addition to Lewis Thompson, songwriters and producers participating for Crimson Gentle and Funfair included Henry Tucker (co-writer of the present Aitch & Anne-Marie hit Psycho); Moon Willis (Stromae, Pa Salieu, Priya Ragu, Clear Bandit); James Essien (Clear Bandit, Tom Grennan); J Moon (Kamal, Demi Lovato, SG Lewis), a shopper of Enjoyable Honest and its publishing JV with Kobalt; and (pictured above at RAK) Punctual duo Will Lansley and John Morgan (Raye, Jason Derulo, Years & Years, Sigala). 

Atlantic artists who headed to RAK Studios included Ella Henderson, Nathan Dawe, Kojey Radical, Tion Wayne and Mahalia.

Nathan Dawe at RAK Studios

Whereas songwriting camps are clearly not a brand new concept, Red Light is increasing the idea of the collaborative mannequin to deliver collectively its roster with that of a label for centered studio periods over a number of days. The last word purpose is to create a extra seamless course of with a daily collection of camps to ship a better quantity of hits. 

“We’ve labored on quite a few hit data along with Atlantic this yr, they’re the perfect first collaborator for this mannequin which we plan to develop additional in 2023,” stated James Sandom, Red Light Management UK MD. “A number of writers and producers from our mixed roster are working collectively constructing a neighborhood which sits on the coronary heart of many profitable writing camps proper now. Sharing a curatory course of with a label group, the place we offer nearly all of writers and producers they usually present the artists, feels a logical step on this period the place collaboration is king.”  

Sharing a curatory course of with a label group feels a logical step on this period the place collaboration is king

James Sandom

“Crimson Gentle and Funfair’s roster has penned a number of singles this yr throughout Atlantic’s roster – Joel Corry, Anne-Marie, Clear Bandit, Nathan Dawe,” stated Atlantic senior A&R manager Emily Kent. “So after we mentioned the concept of becoming a member of forces and placing on a writing camp collectively, it felt like a no brainer.”

Sandom outlined his imaginative and prescient for the Crimson Gentle songwriting camps.

“We wish to do extra of them, extra often, as a result of finally it makes it far more easy,” he advised Music Week. “We might serve all kinds of various components of the enterprise. In our dance music group, we’ve artists and writers like Shift K3y and the entire Evening Bass group [AC Slater] that Marc Thomas and Tony Garvey handle. As you go extra left subject within the dance area, there’s an entire different avenue there.”

“We might have camps each two or three months and, finally, make the method for the labels concerned a lot extra easy, as a result of we might be one group of individuals coping with all of the totally different publishers, all of the  totally different registrations,” Sandom added. “It simply turns into a extra seamless course of. So, in time, I hope that turns into a daily factor. We’re actually constructing the roster that might justify it.” 

A session at RAK Studios together with Punctual, Issey Cross, Moon Willis and James Essien

The Atlantic collaboration for the inaugural writing camp emerged naturally out of a run of hits between the label’s artists and Crimson Gentle’s songwriting roster, together with: Lewis Thompson and Joel Corry; Punctual and Nathan Dawe; James Essien, Punctual and Clear Bandit; Henry Tucker and Anne-Marie.

Collaborations on the camp over the week included:

– Ella Henderson, Rob Harvey, Lewis Thompson and Jordan Riley

– Mahalia, James Essien and TSB

– Kojey Radical, Moon Willis and Grades

– Issey Cross, Punctual, James Essien and Moon Willis

– Ella Henderson, Punctual, Lewis Thompson, Clem Douglas

– JinJin and Maestro

– Tion Wayne and EY

– Moon Willis, Britten Newbill and Renao

– Nathan Dawe, Issey Cross and Punctual

– Nathan Dawe, Lewis Thompson, Clem Douglas and Punctual

– Goddard, J Moon, Venbee and Dan Fable

– Goddard, Henry Tucker, Maddy Abella and Joran Riley

– Bless and Will Bloomfield

(L-R) Clementine Douglas, Lewis Thompson and Henry Tucker at RAK Studios

“The songwriting camp is an efficient instance of the expansion of the roster between Crimson Gentle and Funfair,” stated Funfair Management founder Tyler Brown. “We received to some extent the place we had a dialog and realised that just about everybody [from the roster] is writing, producing or concerned in quite a lot of Atlantic’s large pop data.”

“The Atlantic camp may be very a lot geared in that [pop] area,” defined Sandom. “However on the different finish of the spectrum, we have got Will Bloomfield engaged on all kinds of stuff. He rubs shoulders on one facet with Lewis Thompson on sure data, however on the opposite he is working with artists of ours like The Vaccines and Alfie Templeman.”

Tyler Brown added: “The [Red Light and Funfair] roster covers an entire spectrum of genres and artists, whether or not it is Simon Aldred with Rag ’n’ Bone Man and Sam Smith, Danny L Harle with Caroline Polachek and Charlie XCX, Punctual with Nathan Dawe, Lewis Thompson with Tom Grennan and Joel Corry, or Henry Tucker with Jason Derulo. I do not assume there’s any style that we could not dip into and supply some actually good expertise in direction of.” 

Additional Crimson Gentle songwriting camps are being lined up, together with periods with RCA artists in early 2023.