World of Weird Al Yankovic

Orthography Enthusiast wrote:Does this mean Jay Levey is out, or does Wm Morris Etc. do something different?

As far as I can see it means Paradise Artists are out (not Jay)


This is presumably the people that handle stuff like making sure venues hear about what dates Al is available to tour so venues can book. The Agency, as far as I can tell are the people who liaise with venues and who put out the rider and booking requirements to interested parties Im sure thats not all they do.
Al has been with Paradise Artists for a long while. Wonder what prompted the change?

Al is now in good company with all the other clients they have. Gotta love Joel Mchale...

ludovica64 wrote:As far as I can see it means Paradise Artists are out

Correct. Al has now been completely removed from the Paradise Artists web site.

The Paradise roster has a lot of oldies acts and acts-lacking-an-essential-original-member. Basic county-fair fodder, in other words. I can see where Al would want an agency that has more reach, and it can only be a good sign that WmMorris thought he'd be worth the trouble. But at least Paradise did a great job of getting bookings for Al's Brain... oh, well. Never mind.

Now if Wm Morris E would just put Al on THEIR website...

Grom wrote:

TMBJon wrote:Ari Emmanuel

Is he the one mentioned in The War for Late Night? Because, yes, he's extremely aggressive if that's the case. Anyway, this only sounds like a great, positive step for Al and his reputation as a performer.

That just must be a characteristic about the Emmanuel brothers. From what I've heard, his bro is like that too. I guess music and politics are super-similar when it comes to running them.

Orthography Enthusiast wrote:The Paradise roster has a lot of oldies acts and acts-lacking-an-essential-original-member. Basic county-fair fodder, in other words...But at least Paradise did a great job of getting bookings for Al's Brain... oh, well. Never mind.

Exactly. I don't want to beat up on them too much, because like it or not they were in large part responsible for everyone's concert memories on this board (or at least in North America, anyway), but it did seem as if Al was getting too big for them to properly handle. The tour itineraries definitely kept going over familiar territory to the point of redundancy...unless they really expected Al to sell out the Keswick for the fourth time in just four years. Al isn't exactly a "state fair" act at this point in his career--this isn't 1997--so yeah, something needed to change.

As for "Al's Brain," I have no clue how well Paradise pitched that around if at all...or if the Orange County Fair somehow got involved in the process and slowed it down. It seemed as if they just sort of stuck the info on their site and thought that was enough to entice parties. One of the local places I contacted that seemed the most likely in the Northeast to host the exhibit never even heard of it.

Wow, Al is so timely with his Triumph joke

wow few years too late.. unless he knows something we dont

Hey guys, cut Al some slack. I, for one, thought it was a great tweet ... for me to poop on.

Man, why don't we ever see Triumph on Conan? He was my favorite character ever. And now, thanks to Al, Grey Poupon mustard will never taste the same to me again.