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THE GARDEN FESTIVAL – CROATIA

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‘Watch the Garden Grow’ said Eddie & Nick from the Garden festival back at their first event in 2006, since then the small Croatian fishing village of Petrcane has blossomed into a party paradise for the thousands who visit during the summer months. The Pool have played a vital part in the development of the event since first involvement in 2007; Pool residents Matty J & Ben Terry annually host The Pool boat party; an audio orgy taking in the beautiful adriatic scenery. The onshore stages regularly feature world class acts from the Pool roster. Greg Wilson an early supporter of the event, has become a regular fixture, closing the mainstage. And this summer Greg Wilson, Eric Duncan and Cosmo have taken prime positions on the line-up in closing main-stage slots.

A Greg Wilson

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B Harvey

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B Todd Terje

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Belvedere Vodka

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High end Vodka Brand Belvédere asked The Pool for music supervision on a promotional cocktail video for their bar tenders / mixology competition. Working with creative design agency Folk, after The Pool passed numerous CDs onto the client. Finally a deal was struck with Todd Terje’s track ‘Euro Dans’ which the client felt worked perfectly with their original concept.

C Eric Duncan

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C Rub ‘N’ Tug

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D Maurice Fulton

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E The Unabombers

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F Trojan Sound System

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G Padded Cell

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G Richard Sen

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H Bill Brewster

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Havana Club

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Havana Club in collaboration with ITCH Agency

For the summer 2008 Festival season The Pool programmed the Havana Club stages at four of the UK’s major Festivals: Isle Of Wight, Big Chill, Rockness and Bestival. Taking in a loosely ‘Balearic’ music policy that gave the Mojito cocktail bars a perfect summer time party vibe and allowed us musically to go down various different paths. The Pool initiated syndication with the on-site Festival radio for added publicity for the brand.

EXAMPLE OF PROGRAMME: Rub N Tug, Soft Rocks, Bill Brewster, Lowlife, Red Rackem, Futureboogie, Futuredisco, Tirk, Secret Sundaze and others.

J Kathy Diamond

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‘A London vocalist resuscitates vintage disco and earns her diva stripes.’ Prefix Kathy Diamond is a singer/songwriter, who lives in Brighton – originally from Sheffield in the north of England. Her love for soul and disco started at an early age, dancing around the living room to Donna Summer with her mum – the singing came later. As a child she was always imaginative and loved to write poetry, dress-up, and perform, which became great practice for her later career. In the early 90s Kathy decided to write songs and sing them herself, working with different bands, DJs and producers along the way. In 2002 Kathy wrote a song with house producers SWAG called’ Miracles just might’ – a laidback Balearic classic. Originally to be included on their album, however circumstances changed so Kathy decided to release the song herself. Kathy pressed up a limited amount of white labels, and distributed it, which was quite a task. The track received great reviews – DJ Magazine said: “If you like sweet beauty in your house music keep your eyes peeled because it’s only going to get a limited release”. Within a month another 12? was released, this time on the Cottage label (Idjut Boys) with the legendary producer Maurice Fulton. The track called ‘Sunshine’ received huge plaudits from the music media, and started a magical collaboration. In 2007 Kathy’s debut album’ MISS DIAMOND TO YOU’ with Maurice Fulton on production was received globally with open arms, the reviews were the best yet, from XLR8R, Pitchfork, The Village Voice and The New York Sun, to name but a few. After spending 2007 performing the album live around Europe and the UK, Kathy is now looking forward to another busy year. The first half will see releases with Toby Tobias-’The Feeling’ (REKIDS), Lo-Motion Disco -’Love, Love, Love’ – Soft Rocks Feat Kathy Diamond Remix (Eskimo Records), Aeroplane Feat Kathy Diamond-’Whispers’(Eskimo Records), Maxi Skiba Feat Kathy Diamond -’Never stop believing’, Codebreaker Feat Kathy Diamond -’Fire’, plus a special edition 12? with Soft Rocks. Later in the year will see the release of Kathy’s second album, another collection of real song based tracks coming together with co-writer/guitarist Keeling Lee (ex Groove Armada), and using some of the top disco and house producers on the planet. Watch this space.

Jamesons Whiskey

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Jameson Whiskey in collaboration with ITCH Agency

The Pool worked with ITCH Agency to programme two shows for Jameson Whiskey, one in London (The Cobden Club) and one in Manchester (DEAF Institute). At a very early stage in their career just before they broke Florence & The Machine were booked alongside The Coral (with special guest Ian Broudie from The Lightening Seeds) and ex Beta Band collective The Aliens.

K The KDMS

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L Phoreski

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L Soft Rocks

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M Sean P

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N Lowlife

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N PBR STREETGANG

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NFL

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NFL in collaboration with ITCH Agency

The Pool worked with ITCH Agency to programme ‘The Saturdays’ (huge mainstream pop act) and BBC Radio 1 DJ Trevor Nelson for a special NFL screening of the Super Bowl at 02’s indigo arena.

O BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS

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O Tiago

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P Bonar Bradberry

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P Matty J & Ben Terry

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Smirnoff

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Isle of Wight in collaboration with ITCH Agency

At the original ‘Rock’ festival, Isle of Wight sees Jimi Hendrix et al in 1970. The Pool were involved in booking the Smirnoff Ice Cube tent in 2006. The line-up was a pull all the stops out, who’s who of interesting dance music.

EXAMPLE OF PROGRAMME: Norman Jay, Jacques Lu Cont, Gilles Peterson, Guilty Pleasures, Trojan Sound System, Rub N Tug, Greg Wilson, The Unabombers and Bugz in the Attic.

SNOWBOMBING – MAYERHOFEN – AUSTRIA

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Widely regarded as the ‘Greatest Show on Snow’ Snowboming is a week long action packed, ‘fun filled’ music and sporting event set amongst the stunning alpine mountains. During The Pools five year involvement it has nurtured its own day-time mountain top stage – The Arctic Disco; A blissed out soundtrack provided by the likes of Todd Terje, Trojan Sound System, Soft Rocks, Greg Wilson and Bill Brewster sets the scene for boarders to relax and take in the breathtaking views before setting off down the side of the mountain. During the night time The Pool programmes the Tirk Records showcase; a highly energetic affair featuring the cream of the modern dance world making this one of the clubbing highlights of the festival.

The Guardian

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The Guardian Lounge in collaboration with ITCH Agency

The Pool were asked to programme ‘The Guardian Lounge’ at Glastonbury Festival for three consecutive years. Located just behind the Pyramid Stage in a prime location, we worked to bring together a mix of bands and DJs to fit with the newspapers readership. Booking a mixture of cutting edge acts alongside some classic acts that were already playing on the bigger stages at the event. The tent had a ‘lounge’ feel so we focused on Acoustic styles during the day and then slowly increased the atmosphere with more electric bands and up-tempo DJs as the day wore on. We also ran the artist liaison and developed the VIP bar backstage for many of the acts playing (The Wombats, The Enemy & The Maccabees) who felt it to be some of the best hospitality of the whole event. The greatest accolade was The Arctic Monkeys agent telling us we had the best-programmed tent of the whole Festival.

EXAMPLE OF PROGRAMME: Adele, Neil Diamond, Will Young, The Wombats, The Maccabees, The Enemy, Mr Scruff, Crazy P, New Young Pony Club.

Virgin Media

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Virgin Media in collaboration with ITCH Agency

The Pool has worked with ITCH Agency on various Virgin Media related projects over the years. Virgin Mobile Red Light Bars at V Festival was the first, programming a line-up that straddled dance music but in a more commercially viable way that suited the V Festival crowds. Groove Armada and The Scissor Sisters DJ sets where two of many names that set the tent off. More recently The Pool were involved in booking judges for the Road to V competition helping select The Charlatans and Just Jack for the roles of mentors to the young bands. Closing with a big final show at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival. This summer The Pool worked with ITCH on the Virgin Mobile House alongside acts such as Ellie Golding and The Noisettes.

EXAMPLE OF PROGRAMME: Groove Armada, The Scissor Sisters, The Charlatans, Just Jack, David Holmes, Ellie Golding and Paloma Faith.

WE LOVE – IBIZA

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For the past 3 seasons The Pool have been invited to programme the El Salon lounge at the prestigious WeLove event held at Space in Ibiza. The event itself is one of the biggest on the worlds clubbing calendar at one of the worlds most legendary night clubs. We Love’s line-ups consist of the biggest names Electronic music has to offer. The Pool contribute with an innovating mix of musical styles from the likes of Greg Wilson, Trojan Sound System, Bottin and Architeq, helping to push alternative sounds not so frequently heard on the island, via the clubs intimate El Salon environment.