The Animal Farm

The Animal Farm is

a music company based in London, England. We offer record production, mixing and songwriting services. Through our record label, music publishing and artist management companies, we look after a growing roster of UK based artists.

Entries for the ‘News at Zen’ Category

Grunge, Tours and Squash

The very amazing The Manic Shine have been seeing great blog action recently. The London based rock quartet received some TLC at the ‘Farm not long ago and we’re proud to be involved in their quest. As we are of the way Woman E are going from scandal to scandal, figuratively speaking. The Woman E [...]

Summertime… living is easy

Some good new music news. Esteban have been played on Radio 2 and numerous local stations. Their summer tour has been a resounding success but it came with a heavy price: their mighty tour vehicle The Red Rocket is no more… and the guys are battle scarred. Woman E have been picking up blogger interest [...]

Record Of The Day on Popjustice

The very excellent Woman E score Record Of The Day on http://www.popjustice.com with their debut single Few And Far Between, produce by us.
Well done!
I’ll be back with a full holiday report later… good to be back to good news!
V.

YOU got a record deal…?

Interesting chatter in the blogosphere this past week about how, according to Tommy Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy Records, TuneCore and the like are to blame for inflicting “amateur hour” on the world. In his opinion, the vast majority of music that is released is crap and should never have seen the light of day. [...]

Dragon’s Den

One of the few things I enjoy watching on TV, Dragon’s Den, returned last night. I like the show probably because in our daily business we’re doing a lot of pitching and a lot of being pitched to. On last night’s show there was a young gal who’d developed a frozen desserts business. Had invested [...]

Ice Station Zebra Make Great Music

Ice Station Zebra, a bunch of fine artists we had the pleasure to work with recently, have made a cool video for their song The Bells. As with all good music, one struggles to classify this music, but it has a Neil Young-ish vibe with echoes of Laurel Canyon from the 60s and 70s. Well [...]

Lostaura debut album out now

The very amazing Lostaura are garnering great reviews for their debut album, produced by The Animal Farm. I won’t pontificate on the word “garnering”. Why is it you garner reviews? Why not just “get” them?
In any case, check out some good new music. Click on the photos to explore further.

New Music From The ‘Farm

Check out these fine fine artists and their fun fun videos.

Random Flashbacks

I got signed to a major label at an early age. Too early to appreciate good advice. The MD of the label invited me to his house of an evening to play my songs to him on an acoustic guitar. He offered me a drink of whiskey. I played my songs and, on realizing that [...]

Esteban – Jump Ship

Some new music from the ‘Farm. New single from Esteban. Out now.

Please visit the band at Esteban Music and catch them on tour here:

1 Jul 2010
21:00

THE EAGLE TAVERN
ROCHESTER, London and, GB

2 Jul 2010
21:00

CASEY’S
CANTERBURY, London and, GB

3 Jul 2010
21:00

WHITE SWAN
AYLESBURY, South , GB

4 Jul 2010
14:00

THE COCK INN BEER FESTIVAL
SOUTHWATER, HORSHAM, London and, GB

9 Jul 2010
21:00

THE FROG [...]