☀️ Summer Play Is Back — And This Year We Mean Business!
Last summer, Summer Play was one of the most enjoyable things we did as a company. We put our artists front and centre, told their stories, and in doing so, got ourselves in front of a whole new audience of managers, labels, and industry people who hadn’t really noticed us before.
It worked. So, we’re doing it again; and we’ve built on it.
This year, Summer Play runs through June, and it’s bigger in every sense. We’ve grown. More agents on board means more capacity, more genres covered, and more ability to take on the right artists at the right time. That’s not a throwaway line – it’s the reason this campaign matters more now than it did twelve months ago.
What Summer Play actually is
At its heart, it’s a celebration of live music and the artists who make it happen.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be publishing a series of featured artist interviews, real conversations with some of our most exciting acts about their live shows, their stories, and what makes them tick on stage. Alongside those, we’re publishing a series of articles about the live music world – what agents actually do, how live careers are built, and what it takes to grow in this industry.
It’s not a hard sell. It’s us sharing what we know and who we work with and letting the quality speak for itself.
Who this is for
The obvious answer is artists — and yes, if you’re an artist reading this, we want you to see what Midnight Mango looks like from the inside.
But Summer Play is also squarely aimed at the people around artists. Managers, A&R, label teams – the people who are thinking about their artist’s live career and asking whether they have the right agency around them.
We’re actively growing our roster this summer. We have the capacity, the network, and the agents to take on more artists across a range of styles and levels. If you manage or work with an artist whose live career could be going further, we’d love to hear from you.
How to get involved
· Sign up to our newsletter from any footer on our site.
· Go to the PLAY section of our website to find out what we look for in our artists.
· Managers and labels can use the Artist Enquiry Form to put forward artists they are working with.
