Tom McNeill is a creator champion, arts advocate and digital devotee. He works with musicians, podcasters, video creators, artists, orchestras, festivals, venues, promoters, platforms, media organisations, record labels, music agencies and other creatively-minded entities + humans. Here are some examples:
Podcasters
Crime Junkie, Joe Budden, Matt and Shane, The Toast, The Yard, TrueAnon, Fin Taylor, ShxtsNGigs, RedHanded, The Read
Video Creators
Mallory Bros, YaBoyRoshi, Channel 5, Philosophy Tube, Ask A Mortician, Chats and Reacts, Hannah Witton, HTHAZE, Brian David Gilbert, Johnny Harris
Artists
Stewart Copeland, Becca Stevens, Ollie Howell, Troy Miller, Jess Gillam, Avishai Cohen, Eimear Noone, Snarky Puppy, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula, Quincy Jones, Jacob Collier, Francesco Tristano, Jules Buckley
Venues
Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Ronnie Scott’s
Music Labels + Publishers
Universal, Sony, Warner, Music Sales, W Songs, Shapiro Bernstein
Festivals
EFG London Jazz Festival, BBC Proms, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Love Supreme, Jazz Fest Wien, Cambridge Literary Festival
Talent Agencies
CAA, UTA, WME, A3, Coda, IMG, IMN, Good Music Company, HarrisonParrott
Press + Media
BBC TV + Radio, Classic FM, The Guardian, New York Times, WQXR, NPR
Orchestras
London Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Szczecin Philharmonic, Metropole Orkest
Tom likes to work at the intersection of data-driven strategy and creativity. Most recently, he spent six years at Patreon in various creator-facing and strategy roles. He worked for a web analytics company when this was an emerging field as well as having produced short films, built websites, designed album covers and created various other pieces of collateral for artists/presenters over the past decade. As a creative consultant he often provides an artistic left brain to complement an analytical right brain (although you can hire both sides of his mind simultaneously for the same price).
He holds a first-class BA from the University of Bristol and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He has sung as a chorus member (in the tenor section) with orchestras conducted by Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda and Gustavo Dudamel. His parents met in a choir and the family often make music when they’re together. He likes to run marathons and twice has done so to raise money for life-changing music charities: BrightSparks and Nordoff Robbins. Fundraising for these organisations inspired the creation of a podcast series looking at music and mental wellbeing.
Tom has written, recorded and released three albums with his band Joyshop including music that has been featured on iTunes, played on the BBC, soundtracked films, archived in the British Library and written about in The Guardian. He is on the board of KHORIKOS, is a former board member of Brass for Africa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the founder of one rugby club, five music ensembles and The Prickle arts review.
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