Brian Owlmouth (Manager)
Brian Owlmouth began his career as manager of 1960s boy group – The Puppeteers. After parents of the band members took out a restraining order against him, he moved on to make a living from buying out the artist rosters of record companies that had gone into receivership.
In 1990 he purchased the short lived Pink Unicorn Records at auction for the sum of £24 and obtained the services of backwards7 who was still under contract with the label.
backwards7: “Pink Unicorn records had been set up by a couple of builders. They did a lot of cash-in-hand work and they used the business as a way of concealing their profits from the taxman. When I was signed with them they had ten other acts on their books. All the songs on the label were written by a team of in-house writers – Martin Stokes and Jamie Kirk. They used to write soundtracks for pornos in their spare time. Part of the contract specified that artists had to wrestle one another for the songs that were deemed most likely to be hits. That’s how I came to record Kaleidoscopic April Parasol. Jerry (mild mannered, cardigan-wearing, fire-side crooner Jerry Fansfield) was never the same after I beat his head against that table. It was shortly after our fight that he began getting swastika’s tattooed onto various parts of his body and eating raw meat in public. Eventually the label had to let him go.
“Unfortunately, while wrestling to secure a follow up hit, I was injured by the guitar player from the skiffle group The Shoe Shiners. After that I was unable to fight and my career nose-dived.
“When Brian brought my contract he was able to use it to legally bind me to wrestle for him. Now my wife has left me, my children refuse to speak to me and I spend my days wrestling sweaty men in soiled spandex. I quit the music business precisely to avoid this.”
