Uriah Heep have
signed to Simon Porter at
Duroc Media Ltd
for management. The announcement, which takes place with immediate
effect, sees the band reunited with Porter who acted as Heep’s PR for ten
years during the Seventies and early Eighties when he worked as Publicity
Director of Bronze Records.
Comments Porter, who
also represents Status Quo: ‘I’m absolutely delighted to be working
with Mick Box and the band again. I’m a longtime fan of Uriah Heep and we
always had an extremely good working relationship in the past and have
kept in touch over the years. The immediate priority now is to sign the
band to a new record deal and put together a game plan for the next
eighteen months. It’s an exciting time and I’m extremely confident that
together we can take the band to new heights’.
Comments Mick Box:
As you all know I have
looked after the band’s interest at a management level for a number of
years now and I have been looking long and hard to get the right person
for the job to take over from me so that I can concentrate more on the
music than the computer. It has been an exhausting time keeping it all
together but at last we have found somebody to take the reins and push it
to a higher level that both the band and the fans want. I have held off on
the record deal as I felt it important to have management involved from
the new recording upwards. That is not to say we are starting from scratch
as we will be having discussions with three companies who have shown
interest and the meetings have already begun. In the interim period
myself, Phil and Trevor have been writing all along so we have a wealth of
material at our disposal.
I feel that this is a
great move as we have known Simon for years and I feel it will be a good
working relationship that will take us forward. We will have an
international band, an international manager, an international agent and
shortly an international record company with the correct distribution in
place which will help immensely when we tour.
We thank you all for
your patience and your support as always but it was very important to get
this right and have everything in place before we announced it. We are
moving into a new era that is very exciting that hopefully will see us
release more new material and that will enable us to continue to tour the
world.
‘Appy Days,
Mick Box
Bernie has finally
decided to tie the knot with his Czech girlfriend Radka Malik. This
will take place in his hometown of Victoria BC Canada on the 28th
August 2005. They got engaged just before Xmas 2004 when Bernie proposed
at Frankfurt airport on the way to Canada for Xmas. He asked Mick to be
his best man who of course said yes. They have just come back from the
Czech Republic where Bernie met all of Radka’s family for the first time.
