Beer & Records Zine Issue 2 / November 2021

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Behind The Scenes Photos by Rachel McCarthy

Managing bands with Charlene Hegarty We asked music management extraordinaire Kinch show to a Machine Head show to a P!NK Charlene Hegarty to take us behind the scenes show. I got my first official opportunity to ‘work’ of her experience of the music industry. Starting in the industry by accident - my mum had been out at 17, she has worked on some impressive overheard talking about me and her concerns projects in Northern Ireland, smashing a PR that my music interest was going nowhere as I campaign for Tom Waits and now wasn’t a musician myself. The guy “The feeling you get who overheard her ran a company works with some of the best bands coming out of the scene, including as a music fan at a live who did PR in Ireland for Anti, New Pagans! and Curb Records. He show, it’s like nothing Epitaph was a maverick so got me onboard else. I think that’s Take us back to the beginning…. and I worked my ass off on every my drug.” how did your career start in the random project he would throw at music industry? me including doing PR for the Tom “I got started when I was 17. I had been going to Waits Real Gone record in 2004. That one was gigs regularly ahead of that - I was obsessed with mad, but only upon reflection, at the time I just live music and I would cascade from a Soweto took it and ran and thankfully it worked out and 20


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