FERRYMAN PRODUCTIONS - Unofficial Information page

Chris de Burgh is now a recording artist on his very own label - Ferryman Productions. For 30 years Chris was signed with A&M records who were then sold to various record companies at the time including the Polygram and Sony group.
Ferryman Productions launched in March 2004 with the release of the single 'The Words I Love You' closely followed by the album 'The Road To Freedom'.

Chris recently said in an interview to Man On The Line - "I'm absolutely thrilled that I now have my own record company Ferryman Productions. It sounds very grand, but our staff is fairly small, extremely hard working and putting long hours, in particular Caroline, Kenny and Loren, long hours of getting the whole idea started. Kenny Thomson in particular has been pursuing this idea for at least two years. We will be selling through outlets and through record companies who are the distributor of the new album. And it's basically a different marketing strategy."

We had almost as good as you can get within reason, even at the end of a long career. With your own product you can literally do what you want with it, this is a small example that we have made an industry first selling exclusively out of Woolworths and across our website.
And by doing that, it means if we want to sell out of the back of a truck, as Herp Albert did over in California with his Tijuana Brass we can. It means that we can go to other record labels around the World and cut a very hard deal."

As far as artistic expression is concerned, CdeB is grateful that his past record company always left him alone and never said things like 'You must record in this way or that way.'In an interview to 'The Getaway Gazette' Chris explained "I have this tremendous freedom now to do what I want -and always have, artistically -but, with my own product, my own records, I can do what I want. I do not -and neither does my manager, Kenny, for that matter -have to refer to an echelon of music business people, who will either show no interest or a bit of interest, or side-step the issue. It's quite often a nightmare dealing with record companies. In fact, there was a funny moment when I had just finished recording some songs for the new album with the orchestra and one of the orchestra leaders said 'That's gorgeous, what we've just done. I wonder what they'll think about it at the record company?' And I said 'Yes, I wonder. ..', and then I suddenly caught myself: 'Wait a second; we're the record company!'

In the UK, Ferryman Productions are limiting sales of the new CD 'The Road To Freedom' to the official website and exclusive store rights to Woolworths. As website sales do not contribute to chart rankings has CdeB given up caring about chart positions?
"I do care about chart positions," says Chris "but I have to be absolutely realistic about it. It's that people of my age and people who have been in the business as long as I struggle to make an impact on the charts. Although you have to remember that the charts reflect current sales, but not sales over a long period of time. And people like for example Mark Knopfler may not achieve chart success, but certainly can sell a lot of records across a year. Whereas a lot of people who tend to occupy the charts for a short time, only sell records for a short time."

Link - The Official Ferryman Productions site at www.cdeb.net

This section of www.chrishigh.com is for the fans and fans to be of Chris de Burgh. Check out some of the amazing things to do and see here including:

Chris de Burgh - The Storyman
The Storyman: An in depth look and latest news.

Chris de Burgh - The River Sessions
Revealed - this superb new CD recorded in Glasgow 1981.

New Album by Chris de Burgh
Chris High reviews the new album from Chris de Burgh.

CdeB Rare Facts
A collection of hard to find and uncommon CdeB facts.

Rosanna Davison
Biography of Miss Ireland 2003/ Miss World 2003 plus latest information.

Chris de Burgh on songwriting
Quotes on the songwriting process from Chris de Burgh.

Chris de Burgh Guitar Solos and Riffs
A look at some of the amazing guitar solos in CdeB album tracks.

Chris de Burgh The Simple Truth 1991
An in depth look at The Simple Truth concert of 1991 in aid of Kurdish Refugees including pictures and streaming video.

Chris de Burgh Record Collector
Chris de Burgh has featured twice in Record Collector Magazine.

Mike Doud art for Chris de Burgh
The paintings of Mike Doud for the 1986 Chris de Burgh records.

The Chris de Burgh Story
A ten minute streaming video presentation - 'The Early Years'.

There's a New Star Up In Heaven Tonight
A tribute to Princess Diana and her connection with Chris de Burgh.

Bargy Castle - Interactive Tour
An imaginary tour of Bargy Castle by Chris de Burgh himself.

Chris de Burgh - Soundalikes
An in depth look at the Chris de Burgh Soundalike/Tribute acts.

Chris de Burgh - A Child Is Born
This truly amazing 2 minute video shows Chris de Burgh morphing from a baby to the present day - awesome!

Chris de Burgh - This Is Your Life
A Flash presentation adapted from the UK British TV series in 1992.

Chris de Burgh - Memory Games
A Selection of CdeB memory games to test you.

Chris de Burgh - Album Covers Game
How well do you know the CdeB album covers? Why not test yourself here.

Chris de Burgh - Song Title Quiz
Can you work out the clues to discover the correct CdeB song titles?

Chris de Burgh - Picture Puzzles
Rearrange these 5 CdeB single covers online - dynamic puzzles.

Chris de Burgh Java Applet Games
Highly addictive Chris de Burgh Java games - Great Fun!

Chris de Burgh Crossword Puzzles
Either play online or print out to do later, both easy and hard levels.

Chris de Burgh Competition
A Chris de Burgh MP3 music quiz - win a copy of 'Untrained Melodies'.

Chris de Burgh DHTML Zone
Dynamic HTML effects, just a bit of fun with some familiar pictures.

Chris de Burgh - Subliminal
A look at the possibility of reverse lyrics found in Chris de Burgh songs.

Chris de Burgh talks about wine
CdeB talks about his wine collection and what good wine means to him.

Chris de Burgh links
We've scanned the Internet to bring you some of the best CdeB websites.

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