We provide a range of services to independent and emerging talent primarily in the music and film industries including concert and tour booking, online and offline publicity, artist management and PR, marketing and career consultation, with our sister companies further expanding those services into graphic design, film production and film distribution.

With 8 years experience in the British independent market we are one of the only agencies to specialise in emerging and independent talent, providing total career support and creative development services as an essential bridge between grass roots talent and the wider creative industries.

Representing musicians, songwriters, actors, production companies and conservation charities from across the UK, Europe and the USA, we focus our music services exclusively on original recording artists working in a range of independent music genres including rock, folk, acoustic, Americana, pop, blues and jazz.

Coffee Artists is a part of the British company Coffee Arts and Media Ltd which also specialises in independent film (Coffee Films and Coffee Shorts) and design and viral marketing (Coffee Design).

Everything began with Coffee Films, established as an experimental filmmaking collective in 1996 the team included several independent musicians and DJs. The idea of an agency came about with many of them expressing how dissatisfied they were with their agents; there was a complete lack of trust or relationship on any level.

As film producers we already saw relationships with talent as our greatest asset, seeing the impossibility of competing with modern media conglomerates on almost any other level. With several members of the film team already bringing management, music and agency experience we established Coffee Artists in a classic agency role as a service provider to the artist rather than to itself, keeping rosters small in favour of friendly, focused and trust based relationships.

Launching with a purely DJ roster in 2003, we quickly expanded to include live musicians and proved popular with emerging independent artists from the USA interested in the British market. We built a strong reputation for talent spotting and building workable international tours for some of the most outstanding artists on the US indie scene.

As the tours continued to get bigger and word began to spread to West Coast bands we were also finding that artists were increasingly looking for extra support, so a range of publicity and management services tied in with Coffee Films and Coffee Design slowly grew into a complete publicity roster.

Today we continue to grow and diversify with our artists, expanding most recently into promoting live music events (Coffee Artists Presents...) and work in the charitable sector publicising wildlife conservation charity the Scottish Wildcat Association and consulting a range of other environmental and animal groups on marketing and PR.

We look forward to continuing to build one of the most talented rosters in the industry, and continuing to be the UK's only true agency home for emerging and developing creative artists from the UK, Europe and USA.

People

Gelli Graham heads up the agency and focuses on agency bookings and traditional media publicity. A career salesperson across a multitude of industries Gelli's key prior experience was as senior agent and general manager at the Phuture Promotions agency in the late 90s and early 2000s, managing and booking a wide roster of high profile DJs to clubs internationally. Today she's a familiar voice to promoters and journalists up and down the country as one of the youngest agency heads in the business.

Steve Piper focuses on artist management and new publicity techniques such as viral marketing. A teenage musician and band manager he is also an award winning filmmaker and web designer working with our sister companies, and spent five years managing UK marketing campaigns for an array of blue chip multinational clients. Steve heads up the Coffee Arts and Media company and provides a range of consultative services to our artists.

Vanda Rapti focuses on our film interests and general legal support for the whole company. A classically trained musician and accomplished feature film actress and television presenter in her native Greece, Vanda is also a practicing media lawyer in the European broadcast industry bringing a detailed knowledge of all facets of the industry.

Baron looks after the company's security requirements. A Japanese Akita weighing in at just over 140lb with a 28 inch neck, Baron's key experience comes from many centuries of selective breeding to create a really huge wolf that hunts bears and other big game over mountainous terrain. Today Baron is somewhat oppressed by the agile and cunning Coffee Films' cats and is looking forward to someone breaking in so that he can let off some steam.

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