What We Do

Cooking Vinyl Music is one the few remaining independent publishers in the UK. Our job as a publisher is to maximize the worldwide use of our copyrights through record sales, concerts, commercials, computer games, film, television the Internet and mobile phones. We have strong independent publishers looking after our copyrights Germany, Scandinavia, France, Spain, Holland  Italy, Japan  Asia and the United States. This puts us in a much stronger position to develop and promote our writers worldwide.

Cooking Vinyl Music’s objective is to sign writers and artists for the world exclusively. The biggest responsibility for us is the role we play in the development of an artist's career.

As an independent publisher with a  contemporary roster we like to get involved with writers and artists early on in their career. These artists are either unsigned by the major record companies or they have deals with very small independents, so they look to us for both creative and financial support. Our input varies tremendously depending on the individual needs of the artists.

In their preferred environment they can experiment with ideas and record a number of songs that can later be discussed and reviewed with us. . There are times when it is appropriate for us to finance the release of a single in order to generate media attention and record company awareness. Cooking Vinyl Music has a good relationship with the record industry's A&R community, allowing us to introduce artists and managers to them when appropriate, with a view to securing long term recording contracts whether in  the UK or outside the UK.

Another extremely important aspect of publishing is synchronization, an area that is becoming increasing significant to the exposure of an artists and the writer. Cooking Vinyl Music works with independent Synch teams, including !Music.  They are extremely effective in exposing and placing music in Commercials, Film, TV, Computer games and Internet.
This area can be of enormous benefit for a new artist/writer in giving them initial exposure, this is an area we focus very seriously on.

The other key role in publishing is setting up collaborations between writers. This can produce some very exciting results and instills a certain confidence in the writer who perhaps up until this time has written on her/his own, unaware of the creative potential that a good songwriting partnership can produce. Internationally, we have meetings and are in regular contact with our partners in Europe and beyond, where we discuss requests and expectations that we would like to see from our partners overseas, for example:

The publisher's role encapsulates all the areas mentioned above. Its creative expertise is more and more in demand as it becomes apparent that publishing in the 21st century is where the artist's talent is nurtured before the multi-national record companies become involved. Our role as a company is to be involved with our writers and artists on a long term basis and help them to achieve their true potential.