The Tip Sheet
The Tip Sheet (1993–2002) was a weekly magazine and CD insert for UK music industry insiders. Jonathan King founded it and was managing editor until his imprisonment in 2001. His brother, Andy, took over the position,[1] helped by Joe Taylor.[2]
The Tip Sheet has not been printed since 2002, but an online message board continues.[3] Joe Taylor and erstwhile fellow-employee Paul Scaife have since been active at Record of the Day, which has similar objectives.[4]
The Tip Sheet promoted artists including The Corrs, The Darkness and Eva Cassidy while they were unsigned or unknown, and publicised future hits like Chumbawamba's Tubthumping, Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia from the Cuban Boys and Who Let the Dogs Out? by Baha Men.
Taylor and Scaife first heard of unsigned band The Darkness in a post on The Tip Sheet message board, and featured the song Love Is Only A Feeling in January 2002.[5] They later featured it again in Record of the Day. Its debut album, Permission to Land, went straight to number two in the UK charts on its release on 7 July 2003.
In 2005 The Tip Sheet message board and Record of the Day featured the track No Tomorrow by then-unknown band Orson.[5] Within days the band had several offers. Within weeks they signed a publishing deal with Universal Records worth an estimated £300,000 and a label deal with Mercury Records for a million pounds. The single topped the UK chart, as did their first album.
[edit] References
- ^ "King's Tip Sheet to carry on". BBC News (London). 21 November 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1668370.stm. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
- ^ "Critics' cool verdict for Mercury". London: BBC News. 2001-07-24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1455247.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ "Tip Sheet stays online as mag closes doors". Music Week. 2002-04-06. http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1216§ioncode=1. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ "Dispatches: One song a day sets the record straight". The Guardian. 2006-03-20. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/mar/20/mondaymediasection. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ a b "Success Stories". Record of the Day. 2006-02-01. http://www.recordoftheday.co.uk/cgi-bin/content.cgi?page=success. Retrieved 2009-07-27.[dead link]
