Steve Farris
Music Consultant, Publishing @ Steve Farris Music (UK)
He draws upon 30+ years’ experience working in the music industry with over half that time spent in various roles within music publishing.
Has held the following positions at these companies:
 EMI Music – A&R Assistant
 Sony Publishing – Scout and A&R Manager
 A7 Music – Song Plugger
 On The Fiddle Publishing (Levellers) – Catalogue Manager
 Polar Patrol (Snow Patrol) – Director
 Spirit/B-Unique – Creative Manager
 13 Artists Publishing – General Manager
During his career he has signed and worked with: Levellers, Snow Patrol, Belle and Sebastian, Rae & Christian, Skint Publishing (Midfield General, Cut La Roc, Phats and Small, Super Collider), Bilk, Marcella Detroit, Kidda, Here We Go Magic, Johnny McDaid (Ed Sheeran, Example, Snow Patrol), Luke Temple, Nadine Shah, Kathryn Joseph, Gita Langley, JR Green, Declan O’Rourke, Thomas McLaughlin (Soak), Bo Bruce, Equador, Bry, Malpas, Marcus Mackay, Windsor Player, Node, Tired Pony, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Queen Zee, Bilk, Vryll Society and Shadowlark amongst others.
Steve negotiated sub-publishing deals with Kobalt, Warner Chappell and Centric, and subsequently managed the relationships on a worldwide basis.
Has been involved in licensing music to Bacardi, Namco Bandai, Warner Brothers, Jacobs Coffee, Westpac Bank and Fox 2000. In addition he’s procured many uses under the blanket license in the UK on shows such as Made In Chelsea and with Sky and BT Sport.
The artists and writers Steve worked with have won Brit Awards, Ivor Novello’s, BMI Awards, ASCAP awards, Scottish Album of the Year and have been nominated for Mercury’s and Grammys.