Every city needs music to help it grow branches and keep evolving. Music, especially ‘live’ music in the right setting, gives those who live in these cities feel alive and energised and inspired and which then becomes a chain reaction of all kinds of emotions that creates a product and brand personality- advertising talk for standing out from the crowd. It’s something I feel whenever in New York or London or Copenhagen, definitely Paris, and anywhere in Latin America. The fir

Though certainly remaining something of an enigma, horse racing and those who still sail in her always being interesting enough for me and who learned much about the pastime when writing as the Racingbitch. Though running the regional offices of Universal Music and then EMI Music with my friend Norman Cheng, below, who was a horse owner and knew many of the players in Europe, being Racingbitch offered me an inside track into viewing this world of horse racing, which I certain

There’s much perception versus reality involved, and speaking recently to a young overseas jockey who was considering applying for a license to ride in Hong Kong, I advised her that being part and parcel of Hong Kong racing first requires doing serious due diligence about how the city works and sees itself today and what the government is thinking about based on the financial and business objectives of China. It’s also about knowing exactly where a gambling driven pastime lik