Asher Kenton Email & Phone Number

London, England Metropolitan Area

London, United Kingdom

Director for Portals experimental music events and festivals. I lead a small team to produce successful live music events. I have built the Portals brand from an idea into a key part of the London experimental music scene. Roles have included venue sourcing, booking and negotiating, strategic planning, financial planning, band booking and negotiating with.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Soho

Managing events such as parties, private dining, corporate drinks, conferences and meetings at London's famous Groucho Club.Liaising with high profile clients and building strong long term relationships.Working in a team to deliver 40-50 events per week during busy periods, and hit a multi-million pound revenue target.Programming function sheets via CMA.

London, United Kingdom

Covent Garden

Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Managing the day-to-day affairs of the band.
• Coordinating the release of the band’s debut album in April 2015.
• Booking agent and tour organiser for two national tours for as well as a number of high profile support slots and festival appearances.
• Tour manager.
• Press coordinator – securing reviews and interviews from established publications.
• Music video and photo shoot producer.

London, United Kingdom

• Music promotions and events organisation.
• Updating website listings using CMS (Wordpress)
• Managing ticket sales through Seetickets, WeGotTickets etc.
• Management of social media channels (Facebook, Twitter etc.)
• Targetted mail-outs (Mailchimp).

Gloucestershire

• Steward (2010) – directing traffic and audience members.
• Senior Steward (2011-2013) – communicating with members of the public as a front of house source of information, organising stewarding teams, liaising between festival organisers and stewards.
• Deputy Stage Manager, Main Stage (2014-present) – Communicating with artists and ensuring that they are well catered for, organising band changeovers, ensuring the stage ran on time.

Liverpool

• Providing a first-class customer service and front of house experience.
• Assisting those with additional needs.
• Responsible for evacuating the building in the event of an emergency.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Head band-booker.
• Head venue-booker.
• Social media manager.
• Liaising with graphic designers and artists.
• Physical promotion, managing street teams for flyering and putting posters up.
• Running targeted PR campaigns, sending press releases and building up relationships with local and national press.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Production Manager (2014)
• Assisting the production manager to ensure that each of the 12 stages are provided with adequate sound equipment and that every sound technician has production details for more than 100 artists.
• Creating and managing a database (Excel) for each venue’s technical information.Venues Coordinator (2015)I was promoted to Venues Coordinator and was the main point of contact between the festival and all venues.
• Negotiating agreements between the… Show more Production Manager (2014)
• Negotiating agreements between the festival and the venues.
• Writing contracts for each of the venues and ensuring that they are signed.

London, United Kingdom

• Communicating with members of the public to raise awareness of various charities.
• Raising money for the charities.

London, United Kingdom

• Promotions and Events Manager
• Booking bands for up to 17 gigs per week.
• Organising social media campaigns.
• Managing advertising campaigns in print media (London in Stereo etc.)
• Stage-managing or night-managing regular events.Deputy Production Manager
• Communicating with every band and attaining their tech information.

Popular Music Studies Ma, Music

Education record

Popular Music, First Class Honours