L+T: Who are some artists you are interested in these days? Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-'90s and actually changed careers half way. For more information, please see our Daughter of late jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss, Vanessa Bley was born in 1985 in Miami, Florida. He says, That often led to people fudging results or trying to put gloss on campaigns where they probably could have taken learnings out of things where they didnt work or try to understand why they didnt work, instead.. As an international marketer, Matthewman works with a team around the world who need to collaborate closely but also be able to work independently to produce marketing campaigns that make sense for their local market. He says, The key things to me are consistency, flexibility and collaboration with your key stakeholders: thats the rest of your marketing team around the globe as well as sales, service and people speaking to your customers and enablement. He adds that its critical to listen to the people in the regions for the nuances that happen locally and to work with them to make sure the campaign is actually going to land and work. Stuart Matthewman: We knew that we were going to have to play a lot of the old songs but we didn't want to make it into like a Greatest Hits Tour or anything like that. Sade Adu is hip-hop. Born August 18, 1960, in Hull, North Yorkshire, England, Matthewman started playing clarinet as a child. I had these stiletto heels on and when I walked up to the microphone, my shoe got stuck in one of the planks. But, Cherish the Day, I know if I heard it on the radio I would say, God, this is good. I always do that, start talking about something else. Well, apart from putting a calendar in place to manage multiple public holidays happening all over the world, he knows that the answer lies in working collaboratively. The record label found the idea of starting an album in this way baffling. Im a bit witchy; witchy woman. Twenty-five years after his debut, the singer-songwriter-producer and key collaborators look back on an album that proved R&B tradition could still thrive in a hip-hop world. Im just a girl who likes to party. I told them I would try. Solo transcription.Transcription sheet you will find on http://solojunkie.wix.com/solojunkie Stuart: Well we have very odd ones. Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-90s and actually changed careers half way. As Matthewman puts it, When you live and work somewhere, you understand the nuances between the people in different cities and states. [6] In an interview with Pete Lewis for Blues and Soul print magazine, issue 1098, Paloma Faith discusses working with songwriters: "another person I really clicked with was Stuart Matthewman, who is Sade's co-writer. No matter where people are, regardless of whether someones thirsty or trying to deploy new technology, their problems are largely the same. Sade is one of the few artists who can take a lengthy hiatus, drop an album, steal the show and take another break. He doesnt put in so much when were composing; its more Andrew and Stuart. Matthewman reflects that as a young marketer he was very afraid of making a mistake or a campaign not working. tuart Matthewman of Sade joins Eric of Pods \u0026 Sods in conversation. Its just whatever we feel like. We talk about the earliest days, go record by record through the Sade catalog, Live Aid, hit some of But no I mean yeah, the audience has always been really appreciative and very vocal with it. Sade: This time we wanted to do something more theatrical and take the audience somewhere unexpected. He cites his musical influences as Junior Walker, King Curtis, Art Pepper, Ernie Isley, Steve Jones, Wah Wah Watson, Issac Hayes, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Tony Iommi, and Gustav Mahler. Maybe Stuart [Matthewman] or Andrew [Hale] will come from a bassline and then we build on that. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The company, IR, produces software that helps large enterprises monitor, manage and troubleshoot their critical networks and systems. They sat on the first album for a long time before they put it out in America.) I was in a studio apartment with one window that faced a brick wall, Maxwell remembers. Matthewman reflects that although nobody wanted to be the person who runs out the dud campaign, this often manifested itself as competition with everyone you were working with. , produces software that helps large enterprises monitor, manage and troubleshoot their critical networks and systems. After coming back to marketing a few years later, hes now looking after a team of marketers for a global software company founded in Australia in 1988 with offices in Sydney, Denver, Washington, London, Dusseldorf and Singapore. He appeared on all of Sade's tours and albums: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger Than Pride, Love Deluxe, Lovers Rock, and Soldier of Love all of which went triple platinum in the U.S. and have totalled sales over 40 million albums worldwide. Yes, I have. Stuart Matthewman, also known as Cottonbelly, is an accomplished writer, composer, producer, and of course, Sade's right-hand man; playing saxophone and guitar alongside her since their band. I love what punk did for the music industry, particularly since it gave everybody different ideas of what the music business could be. Its about war and killing somebody. She did, however, tease us with an original song (Flowers in the Universe) contribution to Disneys A Wrinkle in Time soundtrack. But, your songs have meant so much to so many. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? Neither is it surprising that he has helped turn the organisation around from being inward-focused to being an enabler of people by producing marketing that helps prospects solve their problems or that their revenue has tripled in the last five years. Back in the day, marketing was about positioning things so they seemed better than they really were, says Matthewman. Its heavy, just the whole experience. Having a mom from Haiti and a father from Puerto Rico, being from Brooklyn and not the South, I felt like, did I deserve to be part of this tradition? Maxwell says. Stuart Matthewman was born on August 18, 1960 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. When we moved back from Nigeria, we didnt have anywhere to go, so first we lived with my grandparents, and then my mom got this job as a nurse. Flanked by Sweetback, Sade has crafted a sound that not only withstood the test of time, but arrived better with each return. I listened to Drakes Take Care and Alison Krauss Forget About It. Its like musical recycling. So, that got me interested and I started collecting albums. And obviously over the years our tastes have grown and we just try different things. He believes that how marketers measure success has also shifted over the last few years, and his organisation is a great example of this. L+T: Have you noticed a change in your audience over time? I got into that later. You need to work as a team. She likes to put out art. Stuart has been with Sade since before they were signed - playing guitar, playing sax and co-writing many of the biggest hits in their 50+ million album selling career. Stuart was also a member of the group Twin Danger, formed in 2011 with singer/writer Vanessa Bley, daughter of late jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss. 'Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite' turns 25 this week. So the way that we did that instead of just playing the songs we really wanted to do it visually so we wanted every song or every couple of songs to have its own visual theme. Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. During his teens, he picked up sax and began playing guitar. And they dont even speak English! I was like, Its amazing, but it sounds like its already done. His niche is seasoned R&B acts, along with radio stats on urban and R&B formats. But it always ends up kind of sounding like us anyway. As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album,X Amounts Of Niceness(2010) and produced remixes for artists: Janet Jackson, Gregory Isaacs, and The Isley Brothers. Using the pseudonym Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album, X Amounts of Niceness in 2010 [1] and produced remixes for artists. I wasnt so sure that I really wanted to be in the front. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. I spoke to various people in the organisation who use the brand: people in the UX team, people in the culture team, solutions engineers who have to build technical documentation using our branding, salespeople who have to deal with PowerPoint slides and finding things on the internet, the product group I spoke to people far and wide, had workshops with people globally: got input from all parts of the world it has gone through many iterations to get to where we got to.. Urban Hang Suite is really just soul, with a lineage that reaches back to Keni Burkes Risin to the Top, Sades Haunt Me, the English group Loose Ends we both loved their mix of drum machines and live stuff, Matthewman says and Shuggie Otis, among others. We had the rises so the band could come up and down on, which meant that we could leave Sade completely on her own on an empty stage with no equipment, no drums, no amplifications, no monitors, anything to sing songs like Pearls or Morning Bird. So very early on when we were thinking of the idea of the tour, we wanted to be able to make it a little bit more theatrical, but as in the sets and using screens and curtains and the lighting. Its not an incredibly professional way of working, the way that we work, so its always going to come out a little quirky. Its funny, most of the songs I cant tell you if I really like them or not; its really hard to be objective about it. At that time, not many girls bought records; they were just listening to the same records as their boyfriends. Did you start listening to jazz at that time? I was like, Its amazing, but it sounds like its already done. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album. Minutes. You will receive an email confirmation for the Life + Times newsletter shortly. Ive been writing songs since I was a child. In 1994, Stuart teamed up with fellow Sadeband mates, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, forming the studio band,Sweetback, releasing two albums featuring various guest artists: Maxwell, Amel Larrieux, Aya, and Chocolate Genius. Therell be no more messaging, people are going to bed. After coming back to marketing a few years later, he's now looking after a team of marketers for a global software company founded in Australia in 1988 with offices in Sydney, Denver, Washington, London, Dusseldorf and Singapore. There are more licensed stations now, but when I was growing up, there werent many options. INTERVIEW: Stuart Matthewman and Vanessa Bley are Twin Danger | The Couch Sessions INTERVIEW: Stuart Matthewman and Vanessa Bley are Twin Danger July 9, 2014 by adamascarnegie The past two decades have seen an increase in musical collaborations with artists from seemingly opposing genres. Then, when they decide to buy, youre in the mix because youve assisted them with taking that journey.. The lead A&R was like, Whats the deal with the instrumental? Indeed, the world was waiting. How did he do it? That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. We dont always agree, but I always get my way. When I was ten, I quite remember liking Maggie May, but that was it. Hes a really important member of the band. Were you aware then that your family was different? [8] Vanessa Bley was killed in a car crash on 25 October 2019 in California.[9]. L+T: Over the years with creating this Sade sound, what have you done from a production standpoint to kind of tweak the music as you continue with the times? Urban Hang Suite Left Him No Choice, Russ Doesnt Trust Other Labels. I wasnt so sure that I really wanted to be in the front. I was quite deprived of music, because my mom wasnt particularly into music. It was a good day. In that I could just hum something to him and, though it could seem like a really shoddy idea, he would somehow immediately just play the right chords that would make it sound like something really special. You know what I mean? Chipboard we called it. Do you remember the first time you played live? Matthewman has discussed diverse musical influences including Junior Walker, King Curtis, Art Pepper, Ernie Isley, Steve Jones, Wah Wah Watson, Issac Hayes, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Tony Iommi and Gustav Mahler.[12]. I possess a strong community focused outlook, serving as a long-term executive member of . Stuart: Yeah thats because its ourselves as well. In addition to songwriting, Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. You get some perspective on why youre making a record. True success for us really is: are we delivering quality pipeline that results in revenue? Tradues em contexto de "Bassist Paul" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : It is the first album released by the band since late bassist Paul Gray's death in 2010. We dont always agree, but I always get my way. I mean youd think as we get older, I guess our audience kind of grows with us. They were sweet blokes, because if it wasnt for their blind faith in me, I wouldnt be singing. Updated today Mix - Tonight Is the Night (If I Had You) (Stuart Matthewman) Sade, Sade Adu, The Isley Brothers, and more Mix - The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers, Bobby Womack, The O'Jays,. But he doesnt look, hes nothe doesnt look very feminine. It doesnt really help the process, he says. Its great being the only female in there, so [laughs]. You just try to make a record that you like, that you would buy yourself. I used to read a lot back then as well, at least up until the age of 15. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. A hands-on leader, who loves the challenge of developing new market and business opportunities. I know theyre out there but are there any that are kind of over the top? ', Maxwell follows that intro with four gently danceable cuts, including the Ware co-write Sumthin Sumthin' originally titled Hot Chocolate, the track has the albums most aggressive bass line, whipping and wriggling and popping and the single Ascension (Dont Ever Wonder), co-written by Shur and originally titled XXX.. Whats your favorite song on Love Deluxe? About six years. The 100 Best Albums of 2022, The fact that Maxwell felt like an outsider may have made it easier for him to turn away from the dominant mode of the time. Im sure people tell you that. I wanted the cover to not be my face, Maxwell says. Sade: Yesterday I was in my car. We dont consciously say I want this song to sound like that one, but it creeps in there. A true player of many musical instruments and amazing writer. You have this guitar kind of squeaky sound, and it was also a little bit more country than what weve done, it wasnt kind of necessarily R&B. But, hes also pretty punky and rocky at the same time. You spend a lot of your life at work. Yeah. I was peddlingmusic around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. Varese Sarabande : A 30th Anniversary Celebration (A Chronicle Of Great Film Music 2003-2008) [omnibus, ost] (2016) by Various Artists () on maniadb.com Do they think youre some kind of sad poet walking around dressed in all black? Stuart Matthewman of Sade joins Eric in conversation. Matthewman says Sades label home, Epic Records, respects her artistry and doesnt pressure the release of new music. It was an Irish bar on 14th Street. So, however long it takes; sometimes the songs come really quickly, they just fall into place. From the first day we moved into the house, I was making friends; no one ever brought up my color. 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