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The Enemy sign to Cooking Vinyl
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 16 December 2011
The Enemy have become the latest band to sign to Cooking Vinyl, following Marilyn Manson, Roll Deep, The Cult, and the Cranberries, who all started working with the London indie this year. The band previously released two albums via Warner Music, and will release their first album for their new label in May.
It’s not clear whether the band enjoyed working with their previous major label partner or not, see what you think as frontman Tom Clark tells CMU: “My experience of record labels is as follows: the big ones have got big lawyers who want to pull your pants down and fuck you for fun while telling you they’re doing you a favour. And they are all about one thing – money. The smaller ones are about two things – people and music. Success is possible because, when a small team of enthusiastic people care, they are capable of creating something that no big label or their lawyers can buy, passion. You can’t take 25% of net passion”.
Meanwhile the band’s manager, David Bianchi, added: “The Enemy have always been an independently minded band with ambition and I think Cooking Vinyl mirror this as a label. Watching Martin’s [Goldchmidt] success over the last few years with the label, it seemed obvious that when the band’s deal with WEA was completed, this should be our next move. Cooking Vinyl are allowing us to put together our own bespoke marketing and A&R team which was exactly how we started on the band’s first album. John Dawkins, who A&Red ‘We’ll Live And Die In These Towns’, has been brought back in for album three”.
