Cat Short

I’m a Manager in the Creative division and my clients are recording artists, touring musicians, songwriters, producers, artist managers, booking agencies, music publishers and independent record companies.

As a music fan myself, I love working with such a variety of music-related occupations. I deal with all kinds of everyday requests from clients – everything from facilitating a payment and providing information for a mortgage, to VAT calculations, financial summaries and accounts workings.

We are more like business managers to our clients, which means they feel we are part of their team. We understand the schedule and the particular financial complexities for people in the music industry, which enables us to provide really in-depth, highly specialised advice on complex issues such as tour accounting, where the artist might be in a different country every few days.

My clients are so different in some ways, yet very similar in others; as I’m involved in their day-to-day finances, they lean on me and I really like the fact they feel they can put their trust in me and my team.