Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive and artist/record producer manager.
It’s impossible to capture all of his accomplishments in this brief space, so here are just a few of them: In 2010 he co-founded the NH7 Weekender festival in India, the first of its type ever in the country; in 2006 he co-founded Africa Express with Blur vocalist Damon Albarn and journalist Ian Birrell, a non-profit organization facilitating collaboration between African, Middle Eastern and Western artists; other festivals he co-founded include the DMZ Peace Train Festival in Korea, and he is a director of the award-winning OneFest festival.
He also created the Passport: Back To The Bars/BRITs Week concert series, in which major artists such as The Cure and Coldplay perform in small clubs across the UK to raise money for War Child.
Add to all that an ongoing role with the Music Managers Forum, which he’s been involved with since 1994 as both a Chairman and Board Member, and the fact that the first producer he ever managed was the legendary Tony Visconti, and you start to get an idea of the width and breadth of Stephen’s career.
We try and cover as much as we can in this interview!
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