Staff
Alan McCusker-Thompson
Lecturer in Commercial Music
alan.mccusker-thompson@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1292 886 6000
Fax: +44 (0) 1292 886 371
Room: Ayr Campus
Profile
After graduating from Stirling University with a BA (Hons) in English, Alan worked for the BBC in television post-production sound, covering the full range of BBC output from schools programmes to news and drama and receiving extensive training by the BBC.
A longstanding interest and participation in music led to the release of an ep on U2’s Mother label by his band The Painted Word, and he left the BBC soon after to work as a recording artist for RCA records, and as a songwriter for EMI Publishing. During this period he composed music for the STV drama series Shadow of The Stone and the BBC network series Strathblair.
He then moved into PR, handling Scotland for London- based company Beer Davies. Clients included Scottish Television and Comic Relief amongst many others. He also worked in journalism as editor of monthly lifestyle magazine M8 before entering education at FE level, teaching Television Production and then Communication.
He moved from FE to set up his own artist-management company in 2004 and currently manages both Scottish and London-based artists, working with venture capital, independent and major labels. Alan currently lectures on the structural and business aspects of the music industry as well as music within the context of cultural studies, as part of the Commercial Music degree at UWS.