Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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By 2002 he was living in Knowstone, Devon, where he ran Acadia and Evangeline (not to be confused with the US Evangeline Records label) releasing albums by Ronnie Lane, Spirit, Gov't Mule, Loudon Wainwright III and The Steepwater Band and employed local schoolgirl Joss Stone on work experience.

Lauder’s early years growing up in Hartlepool are evocatively recollected, likewise his impulsive decision to move to London aged 17 with no connections but a zeal for grafting his way up the music biz ladder. You signed the Buzzcocks and 999 to UA as well, were there any other bands in the ‘punk’ movement that eluded you? For a brief period, although they were infamous for being hard to deal with, I thought ‘I can do this’. Soon after the band had achieved commercial success in early ‘77, you left UA to pursue other projects. Since the photos are old press photographs they may have scratches, lines, or other wears of time, which just underlines the authenticity and age of the photos.If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. I think, probably because the Feelgoods were a kind of half way house, a friend had signed Eddie and the Hot Rods, Chiswick had the 101’ers, I thought all these things were leading up to it. Shindig Happy Trails gives the reader a window into a charmed life that most of us can only dream of. Andrew Lauder wasn’t/isn’t a publicity seeker like some of his contemporaries, but he spent many years in the thick of an exciting time. Death, drugs, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: “My story is pretty warty,” he warns MARTIN ASTON.

It was Lauder who brought the Stranglers, the Buzzcocks and 999 to UA as punk began to break; Lauder, now at Radar Records, who was there as Elvis Costello commenced and continued his meteoric rise; Lauder who launched the Edsel reissues label onto the world; Lauder who shepherded the first Stone Roses album to greatness. Andrew is a derivatives and structured finance specialist, with a particular focus on TRS and repo linked funding structures, synthetic securitisations, CLOs and bespoke repackaging transactions. With all this in mind, UK record industry veteran Andrew Lauder’s memoir is not necessarily one for those who prefer these things to teem with improbable tales of incredible narcotic excess.Of his sons, William (1739–1763) was an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, dying in Calcutta. I should have given it more time, but the Feelgoods were really happening in 1976 and I felt like I was becoming Lemmy’s stand-in manager so I cut them loose.