about TourDates.Co.UK

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history

tourdates is the brainchild of Dean Hill and Jarrod Robinson, both of whom were avid music lovers running their own businesses. the site was initially run as a hobby and progressed from strength to strength but remained more of a blog than a community until a chance meeting between Dean Hill and Mark Beilby at Midem, an annual music market conference held in Cannes.

this was the catalyst for change and completed the management team, which, in october 2005 launched the first interactive version of the site.

with the management team having envisaged the now widely touted 360 model, Beilby, along with Richard Hodkinson, formed LondonTourdates a bi-weekly music listings magazine, in early 2007. LondonTourdates is distributed at music venues across the capital with circulation exceededing 20k copies. the two organisations formed a partnership which sees the website provide listings and access to the grass roots unsigned community whilst the magazine provides high quality editorial and artist interviews.

in the same year Hill launched two new businesses; a record label, Raven Black Music and a music award project, exposure music awards. tourdates is a sponsor of the exposure music awards running the online voting system.

december ’07 saw Robinson take on the role of CEO and has since opened offices in Camden, overseen the launch of version 2 of the site and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the business.

tourdates.co.uk remains independent and privately owned being run by music lovers for music lovers.

management team

Jarrod Robinson

CEO & co-founder

robinson describes himself as a “delivery focused internet entrepreneur” and has a background working in the senior management teams for the two largest web hosting companies in the UK during which time he experienced growth from startup to revenues of £20M and staff to 120.

he is also an elected member of Nominet's policy advisory body which provides guidance on management of the .UK registry

in his spare time he can be found in and around camden watching unsigned bands, unless its been snowing in which case he will have tried to escape to the alps.

Dean G Hill

director & co-founder

a life long music fan and always on the edge of the music industry through friends in bands and labels and through the sheer unquenchable love of a good song and a live audience, Hill started promoting and managing in his spare time back in 2000. little did he know that a website registered back then would spawn the glorious monstrosity that is now tourdates.co.uk, helping fellow music fans find all the good stuff in one place!

since then the website has provided a platform for Hill to launch two new ventures, ExposureMusicAwards.org and his record label and publishing company Raven Black Music which he runs on a full-time basis

always on the look out for the best music talent in Britain his quest to help transform the music industry continues…

Mark Beilby

chairman & co-founder

mark is a managing director in the capital markets division of Dresdner Kleinwort and head of media research. he has been a media analyst for over 20 years, working at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and UBS. he has been rated in the top 3 sector analysts by the accredited investor surveys in nine of the past twelve years. his financial career began as a corporate finance analyst with Morgan Stanley in 1986. previously he worked as a writer and researcher for White City Films (the BBC) and as an executive at Video Arts (John Cleese's production company). he was educated at Oxford University.

when he is not working Mark can often be found at heavy metal gigs in venues around London on the pretence of writing reviews. recent outings include Hawkwind, Kiss, The Sword & Alice Cooper!

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