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Fionn Kirk Radio Station Verification

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Evidence of Contracts between ::Huni:: and Fionn Kirk

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Studio Sessions

The first studio session I participated in was on the 25th of March 2019. As I hadn’t been able to attend the first, Aaron walked me through a couple of the basics in setting up and organising equipment, such as setting up a mic stand and the correct way to channel equipment to the mixing desk while in the studio. When Fionn arrived, myself, Aaron, Arta and Esme who were working alongside him discussed the outline for the session and what we hope to accomplish. The plan was to complete the percussive track for one of Fionn’s tracks. 

Over the course of the session, we discovered issues in regards to the way the recording studio was absorbing the sound produced, which way too much being reflected back at the microphone. We combated this by creating a small box out of acoustic panels. It was evident in the situation that Aaron had experience in dealing with these sort of issues before.

As time pressed on and it was reaching late into the evening Arta left to participate in the backstage work for a gig. After another hour or so it became apparent between the 3 of us remaining that little work in respect to producing the percussive track would be completed in the evening, due to the equipment as well as the drive of the artist. We pressed onwards for a little afterwards but ultimately the session ended when Aaron made the decision to end it early due to 3/4 of the team experience a mental breakdown. 

In this situation, Aaron had assumed a decisional managerial role, in this case, he was a disturbance handler and analysed the situation and made a decision in favour of the artist and other members involved even though time was running out for the EP to be produced.

7th April 2019

There was due to be a studio session on this day however we received a message from Aaron in the morning stating that the artist Fionn had ‘gone out’ the previous night and was in no fit state to produce music. It was clear that Aaron has once again managed the situation and made a decision beneficial to the artist involved. We tried to rearrange and schedule another session however this ultimately didn't happen.

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Introduction to Artist Management

The second Semester started on the 7th of January 2019, one of the modules in which I studied was Music Management Principles. This involved managing an artist and applying key principles we learnt in lectures to real-life situations.

29th January 2019

An email was released regarding a 2nd-year student requiring assistance in managing a selection of 2nd-year popular music students. Upon receiving the email I responded almost immediately and was thrilled to receive a place working alongside Aaron Jones managing these artists.

After a few days, we’d formed a group of 1st-year students willing to assist Aaron in the management of his acts: Huni, Fionn and Ellery and Blackbird. This group consisted of myself, Arta Kalnina, Jasmine Johal and Laurie Johnson.

1st February 2019

A week later the group was introduced to the selection of artists via a meeting organised by Aaron, this meeting ended up with only half of the acts turning up with a third arriving 45 minutes late, this was the first time we saw Aaron’s ‘patience of a saint’ in action. It was clear through the meeting however that Aaron maintained loose boundaries with his artists and communicated with them as friends with a degree of control and professionalism.