Words by Rachel Short White Sky music business management was born out of Tom Harris’ desire to assist musicians with their finances. Harris began the company in 2002, from his bedroom, after working in book keeping for Rubber Records and Media Arts Lawyers. “I wanted to work in the music industry specifically, just because I wanted to hang around other people who wanted to talk about music all day, rather than working in a sterile corporate sort of area. David and Stephen (from MAL) were nice enough to recommend me to a few people here and there in the industry and the word just spread,” explains Harris. The introduction of the Liberal Government’s GST had just come in and band managers who had once looked after artist’s finances suddenly realised they didn’t know enough to take care of business. Harris knew enough to step in and run the artist finances for them. His first major client was Eskimo Joe – who were very big at the time – and since then his company has grown to 250 clients over the last twelve years, 150 of those being musicians and the rest being managers, record labels, publishers and industry folk in … Continue reading IN THE WHITE HANDS