Showing posts with label Dickon Stainer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dickon Stainer. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 January 2009

West Ham Kid Nets Record Deal

According to this story in The Sun, a 16-year-old West Ham United prodigy has given up on football to sign a £1million deal with Universal Music to play the saxophone.



There are two things that I found notable here. First, that there is a choice to make between football and another career, given that even top professionals only train for about 3 hours a day. Surely you can fit in another job in the afternoon? I suspect some of Norwich's players have been for years, if their performances are anything to go by.

The second is the name of the record executive - Dickon Stainer. Dickon Stainer! If ever there was a better name for a jazz music record exec, I would love to hear it.

That is all.