User talk:Alexander Field

Alexander Field
More commonly known as Alex Field is an artist manager in the music industry and owns and runs the company Alex Field Management (AF-M).

Early Years
His love for music started at the age of 7 when his father dragged him to see the Radio 1 roadshow in Newquay Cornwall. It was on this day a passion for music was born.

Born in a village called Loxley near Sheffield he was sent away to boarding school (Perrott Hill School) aged 8 for his early years. He remained in the county of Somerset for the rest of his schooling spending every spare moment at Radio Camelot a hospital Radio Station based in Yeovil where he presented a Saturday morning kids show along with the occasional request show in the evening. As Alex was only 14 at the time the desk had to be operated by an adult usually his father.

Radio
'Radio Camelot Hospital Radio' At the tender age of 14 Alex began to learn about the radio industry thank's to Radio Camelot a hospital based radio station. Without their support and encouragement he would not have had the basic skills of radio broadcast to be able to secure a job at the local independent radio station 'Orchard FM'

Orchard FM Radio At the age of 16 he left school to join a local independent radio station called Orchard FM where he spent two years learning everything he could under the guidance of then managing director David Rodgers and industry veteran.

During his time at Orchard FM Alex received an award from Television South West (TSW) for his contribution to radio and the local community.

Virgin 1215 Radio
At 18 he joined Virgin 1215 Radio the Richard Branson owned radio station as a producer working on shows 'Russ & Jono In The Morning", "The Big Red Mug Show with Paul Ross", "The Album Chart Show with Russ Williams" and produced the Sunday morning show "WH Smiths Classic Tracks" presented by Gary Davis.

Music Industry & Management Career
Leosong & MCS Music PLC Alex joined as A&R to exploit the companies publishing back Catalogue and learn as much as possible about the publishing industry under the guidance of music publishing veterans 'Tim Hollier' & 'Guy Fletcher'. It was during this time that he was introduced to Mark Owen of 'Take That' fame as a potential client of the publishing company, it would be at this time that his management career was to be launched.



Alex Field Management
Mark Owen formally asked Alex to oversee the signing of his new album, during this period Mark Owen entered the Big Brother house (Celebrity Big Brother Series 2 winner). Alex successfully on behalf of Mr Owen negotiated a deal with Universal Island Records and signed him to Nick Gatfield (Head of Island Records) & Paul Adams (Head of A&R). The first two singles reached top three in the UK Charts.

Christopher Max Alex has acted as a consultant to Christopher for nearly 20 years on both recording & publishing matters. Christopher has written songs for Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers, Lenny Kravitz and Prince to name but a few. He was also the man that wrote and sung the famous advert within the film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy entitled Soul Glo

Sabrina Washington - Alex negotiated two releases for Miss Washington, one with Universal France records & Publishing and with a large independent label in Poland, the song OMG went on to be a number 1 radio hit in Poland for over two months. OMG was a moderate hit in France but from this a collaboration was released between DJ Assad & Sabrina called 'Make it Hot' which was a successful club hit in Europe.

Ali Tennant during the time he was managing Sabrina Washington he was introduced to a songwriter called Ali Tennant, they instantly hit it off personally and shared the same goals career wise. Alex began managing Ali and they went on to achieve charts success within a two year period with artists such as, JLS ( including the singles "Proud", "Hottest Girl In the World" along with many other cuts/song's on both JLS albums "Jukebox" & "Evolution" ), Tulisa with the number 1 single "Young" and two other songs on the "Female Boss Album". The Saturdays (two songs on the album "On Your Radar"), Peter Andre Album "Angles & Demons", Jessie J (Magnetic) & David Guetta (Nothing But The Beat Album featuring Jessie J song entitled 'Repeat'). Over a period of just over two years Ali Tennant songs were included on albums and or singles that collectively sold over 6 million copies worldwide.

Alex was also key to introducing him to the TV show "The Voice UK" as a vocal coach which he remains on to this day, Ali was also used as a vocal producer and coach to the aforementioned artists.

Gene Mcdaniels is the father of Christopher Max, Alex acted again as a consultant to Gene in the latter part of his life, Gene had hits as a songwriter and performer in the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's. His most famous two songs are 'Compared To What' which has been used in countless films including the film 'Casino' staring Robert De Niro and recently covered again by John Legend and 'Feel Like Making Love' a Grammy Nominated song which was a huge hit for Roberta Flack whcih was penned by Gene in the late 70's.

Sam Smith Alex was involved in the early management of Sam's career but due to other commitments was unable to look after him personally day to day, however during his management period a number of demo songs were recorded one of which was used in the Irvin Welsh film "Ecstasy" entitled "Ecstasy"

"ATOMIC KITTEN & Kerry Katona" Alex was brought in to manage/consult for Kerry for a short period of time just after she filed for her second bankruptcy, to deal with a number of personal and business issues. Alex also during this period co-managed Atomic Kitten.

Contractual Legal works:

Alex has prepared and/or negotiated agreements for the following artists/groups/Companies:

ATOMIC KITTEN, LIZ MCCLARNON, NATASHA HAMILTON, KERRY KATONA, 911, ALI TENNANT, BELTA MANAGEMENT LTD, SABRINA WASHINGTON, DA BEAT FREAKZ, SAM SMITH, CHRISTOPHER MAX, OLLY HITE, MARK OWEN, STEPHANIE KIRKHAM, O-STREET ENTERTAINMENT and ORITSE WILLIAMS

Consulting work
Oritse Williams & O Street Entertainment Ltd Alex was brought in by ex-JLS Star Oritse to oversee the structure and set-up of his company which at the time was called B.O.B (Best of British). The first thing Alex did was advise Oritse to change the name of the company and suggested O Street Entertainment. After the consultancy period finished Alex returned to Alex Field Management with the plan to find the next project/artist to work with/on.

Other Business Activities
He is a shareholder in a scented candle manufacturing company and also is the founder and CEO of a headhunting company based in London specialising in the 'Information Technology' & the 'Banking Sector'.

In his spare time Alex likes to fish, shoot and collect antiques. He can be found most weekends bidding on a painting or a piece of furniture. Alex also likes to spend as much time as possible in the countryside where he lives most of the time.

Alex is a big supporter of British Farming and eventually would like to go into farming full-time.