Mclachlan Leaves Nettwerk Management but Vancouver-Based Star Will Continue to Record with the Label That Launched Her Career

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Music McLachlan leaves Nettwerk management But Vancouver-based star will continue to record with the label that launched her career

BY FRANCOIS MARCHAND Vancouver Sun

Vancouver-based songstress Sarah McLachlan is reportedly leaving Net- twerk’s artist management roster. But although Nettwerk’s flag- ship chanteuse will set sail for new horizons on a management front, McLachlan will continue to record for the Nettwerk label, which also calls Vancouver home and has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and Hamburg, Germany. In a memo sent to CelebrityAccess senior writer Larry Leblanc, Nettwerk CEO and co-founder Terry McBride said the company will “continue to manage Sarah until she has selected a new manager. We are all good friends. So, it’s quite fine actually, and we remain her record label.” According to a followup email sent to Leblanc, McBride added that Nettwerk would still be handling McLachlan’s management “until at least the end of March, and, maybe, even beyond that.” When reached by The Vancouver Sun, both McBride and McLachlan’s team declined to comment. Management duties can include stra- tegic planning, touring arrangements and marketing. Nettwerk’s management roster includes artists such as k-os, Stereophonics, Meaghan Smith and Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida. The label aspect of the company deals mainly with the releasing and/or pub- lishing of music, something McLachlan will continue to be a part of with Net- twerk. The company’s label roster also includes The Be Good Tanyas, Great ian lindsay/png files Lake Swimmers, Ladytron and Hope Sarah McLachlan is ending a 23-year management partnership with Nettwerk, which also manages artists such as k-os and Stereophonics. Sandoval, among others. The announcement marks the end Surfacing earned four Juno Awards of America’s suing illegal download- Page’s arrest for cocaine possession tour, which was plagued with logistical of a 23-year management partnership and two Grammy Awards and set the ers and championing the early stages and his departure from the band. issues and had to cancel dates due to between McLachlan and Nettwerk, scene for the all-women festival tour of the digital music sales era, as well Other big-name acts that have left poor ticket sales. the label responsible for launching her Lilith Fair, which McBride co-execu- as signing a wide-ranging distribution Nettwerk over the years in either a McLachlan’s latest effort Laws of Illu- career by releasing her debut album, tive produced. agreement with Sony in 2005. management or label capacity include sion was released through Nettwerk in Touch, in 1988. The late ’90s and early 2000s would In recent years, however, the com- Chantal Kreviazuk, Dido, Sum 41 and conjunction with the Lilith announce- McLachlan went on to sell more than be Nettwerk’s most ambitious period, pany has had its share of difficulties. Billy Talent. ment last year, and recently garnered 40 million records worldwide and with Lilith topping major changes that In 2008, Canadian pop-punk prin- In 2010, Nettwerk cut ties with Sony McLachlan three nominations for the remains Nettwerk’s best-selling artist also included founding Nettwerk Man- cess Avril Lavigne left Nettwerk after and signed a new distribution agree- 2011 Juno Awards, including Artist of in its 25-plus-year history. agement in 1995 and expanding the selling 30 million albums under the ment with Warner Music Group’s the Year and Pop Album of the Year. As a label, Nettwerk has sold more Nettwerk umbrella, as well as signing label’s guidance. Alternative Distribution Alliance. than 100 million albums around the the Barenaked Ladies in 1996, intro- In 2009, the Barenaked Ladies That same year, Nettwerk and [email protected] globe. ducing the world to Coldplay, fighting did the same after a tumultuous few McLachlan, along with promoter Live Blog: vancouversun.com/sound McLachlan’s landmark 1997 album the Recording Industry Association months following frontman Steven Nation, resurrected the Lilith festival twitter.com/AwesomeSoundVS Music festival has community in mind Vogville’s Jonathan Fluevog says he wants to give emerging artists a chance to play for larger audiences

designer who created unique footwear opportunity to record a song and shoot BY FRANCOIS MARCHAND for the White Stripes, Jane’s Addic- a “making-of” video in the studio, as Vancouver Sun tion’s Perry Farrell and the Dandy well as headline the concert for that Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor, month. or Jonathan Fluevog, launching among many others. “I’m in my 30s now,” Fluevog says, a new music festival is all about Jonathan has been working in the “and I want to do things that affect Fbuilding a community. music business for 17 years as a pro- other people in a positive way and It’s a philosophy he has been foster- ducer and promoter, collaborating that are bigger than just me.” ing for more than 10 years with his with the likes of the Shins, Scissor studio, Vogville, a Port Coquitlam- Sisters and Zero 7. [email protected] based, state-of-the-art operation that He is also the manager of Vancou- Blog: vancouversun.com/sound has seen myriad world-class acts come ver area pop-rock band The Light twitter.com/AwesomeSoundVS through its door. Machines, who will be perform- With his new music event, Vogville’s ing at the festival alongside other At a glance Day & Night festival, which takes place independent acts like The Matinee, this weekend, Fluevog is stepping out Los Furios, Lakefield and TV Heart of the studio and into the live scene, Attack. Vogville’s Day & Night showcasing a variety of up-and-com- “Stylistically, they’re all bands you Festival 2011 ing Vancouver-area acts during a full would probably hear on The Peak — Jonathan Fluevog (son of famed shoe designer John Fluevog) runs Vogville, an Featuring The Autumn Portrait, By day of concert performances. I didn’t want to do an all-ages show award-winning recording studio in Port Coquitlam. Starlight, City of Glass, Clockmakers, “The city needs these events where with nothing but high school metal TV Heart Attack, Lakefield and bands can play to a larger amount of bands, which seems to be nine out of won and they’re still moving their has produced its fair share of coun- Cosmik Debris (day); The Light people,” he says. “I saw this need for 10 all-ages shows,” Fluevog says with a careers forward,” he says. “I believe try music of late, working with artists Machines, Run the Red Light, Young bands to be able to band together as a good-hearted laugh. “I wanted to offer that hard work creates opportuni- like The Higgins and other B.C.-based Pacific,T he Matinee and Los Furios community and really expand. That’s the kids a show with real emerging ties and those are the bands I want to talent). (night) what Vogville’s always been about: artists that really want to get ahead.” showcase in this festival. We’re all in “A few people have said, ‘So is this When: Saturday, 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (all artists coming through the studio Another thing Fluevog wanted to get this together.” your way of drumming up business?’ ages) and 7:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. (licensed) and then going out into the world and away from was the “contest” idea or As much as his business’s name is No, I actually turn a lot of people away doing well and working together. This the “battle of the bands” phenomenon attached to the venture, Fluevog is because we’re so busy.” Where: Vancouver Alpen Club, festival is just extending that idea.” that has swept the city of late, with quick to point out that Day & Night If all goes according to plan, Fluevog 4875 Victoria Dr. Music and art run deep in the Flu- radio stations offering big cash prizes isn’t meant to be seen as a promotional will be starting a monthly “Vogville Tickets: $10 per set in advance at Zulu, evog family. to the winners of yearly events. vehicle for his studio, which won the Presents” series similar to the Vogville Scratch, Neptoon and Highlife, $12 per Jonathan’s father John is the world- “Yes, some of these bands have been title of Studio of the Year at last year’s Day & Night festival in March, where set at the door renowned Vancouver-based shoe in contests but not one of them has BC Country Music Awards (Vogville a lucky band will be given a one-day

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