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I have loved music since as long as I can remember. It is my passion to assist bands, acts and labels in developing careers and getting music onto platforms of change and transition within the music industry. I have worked in this business for close to 20 years and my clients have ranged from Global Music Icons to the best Major and Indie labels in the world of music, and of course, emerging domestic Irish and International Acts. My success is your success.
Linda Coogan Byrne
Linda Coogan Byrne is a Music Industry Consultant with 20+ years of experience in the international and domestic music industry and is CEO of Award-Winning PR & Marketing Company Good Seed PR. She is also an activist and campaigner for gender diversity and equality and is managing director of Culture Change company Why Not Her?.
Hailed as the woman who has retuned Irish and UK radio airplay towards gender parity, her Gender Disparity Data Reports focusing on the lack of diversity and gender parity across Radio in the UK and Ireland, has become one of the biggest equality movements in the music industry and has garnered over 220 million+ in audience reach, leading the way for the music industry’s #WhyNotHer movement. Linda was nominated as Campaigner of the Year in Music Week’s 2023 Awards.
Linda was named as one of the Top 100 most influential women in Ireland (in 2021) who are choosing to challenge perceptions to change the world. Linda’s work has been widely praised and featured across notable outlets such as The Guardian, Sunday Times, Clash, BBC, RTE, The Independent and many more. She has been a speaker/lecturer/panellist at Hotpress MixSix, Women’sWork, OutPut, MUTEK Barcelona, Belfast Metropolitan College, Trinity College, IMPALA, Dublin City University, and BBC The Biggest Weekend Festival to name a few.
She has represented well-known acts and bands such as Cyndi Lauper, Suzanne Vega, Amanda Palmer, Counting Crows, Madness, Duran Duran, REM, Eleanor McEvoy, Aoife Scott, The Saw Doctors, Aslan, Groove Armada, Underworld, The Prodigy, Röyksopp and many more over the last 20 years. Linda has also worked with record labels and management companies such as Cooking Vinyl Records, Sony, Warner, Universal, V2 Records and Thirty Tigers including many more over the last 2 decades.
A personal message from Linda!
Hi and welcome to my website! I hope you enjoy your time here and find what you are looking for. My consultation service is an advisory service only (if you wish to book PR services see www.goodseedpr.com).
I have been helping clients, labels, and management companies evolve and expand over the last two decades, and it would be my pleasure to assist you in your journey.
During your consultation: I am your personal music business coach, and I will teach you how record labels and music publicists promote, market, and sell music, and what you need to do to develop your music career or your clients.
In our consultation, I will also educate you on how to work with the various gatekeepers and decision-makers that you will encounter as you promote your music or your client’s music to distributors/stores, broadcasters, press, advertising agencies, sync agents, live performance bookers, and through the popular social networking sites on the internet that are constantly evolving!
Media interviews & features across some of the biggest Press, TV and Media platforms in the world of music:
Linda has led up one of the biggest Gender Equality and Diversity Campaigns (Why Not Her?) in the world of music. Her passion for making positive culture change has resulted in over 220 Million people worldwide reading, sharing, featuring, and discussing her Gender Disparity Data Reports that have in turn helped shift the music industry towards a fairer and more equitable landscape. Here is some Press Coverage of Linda’s work.
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If you are interested in what Linda can do for you as a music business consultant, in reaching your music career goals, come take a read of what the policies are for consulting.
In the bottom part of the page you can find the FAQ section, please read over them before you contact Linda to set up a time and day for your first consultation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I make the payment?
When you make an appointment with me you must pay for the 1st hour in advance. (I process all transactions through bank transfer.)
What If the appointment is cancelled?
Cancellations: If you do not show up, or call at your scheduled appointment time, you will forfeit your first-hour deposit, unless you contact me within 24 hours of your appointment. If you are late, without a reasonable excuse, you will forfeit the late minutes from your first hour of consultation.
Can I reschedule the appointment?
You will not lose your deposit of €100 if you need to reschedule and have contacted me to rearrange your appointment within 24 hours of your originally scheduled appointment
Why this policy?
Over the years more and more ‘potential’ clients have missed their appointments and not notified me that they decided to cancel. As a businesswoman, this obviously affects my income and my time is wasted, and as far as professionalism goes, this gives you a bad reputation when you are trying to gain a positive reputation. Do NOT waste people’s time.
Always remember that in this crazy, and very competitive music industry there are thousands of artists and bands trying to just get their music listened to, let alone become a star. It takes a lot of work on your part to get noticed. So, being a professional artist who is polite, open-minded, as well as courteous, punctual, and reliable can take you a long way to your dreams of success.
I will do my part to set you on the right path, and all I ask from you is the same professionalism in return.