James Tones joins Mother Artists

19 January 2021 - Press release

James Tones has joined Mother Artists as an Agent.  Tones, who was previously a booker at Paradigm Agency, will continue to work together with Natasha Gregory (Bent) on her roster, but also build his own roster and be paramount in growing the business alongside Mark, Natasha, Lucy and Liam. 

Natasha @ Mother Artists says “James is basically superman. Not only to us, but to our clients, his peers and all industry professionals. He leads with kindness, empathy, extreme efficiency and a go get attitude. We have no doubt that James will be running the company within a year. Like all our team, he starts as an equal and we, and our clients are so lucky and excited to have him with us. Let’s go!”

James Tones says “I’m so excited to join Mother Artists and start the next chapter of my career as an Agent with Natasha, Mark and the team. As a mentor, I am so grateful to Natasha for teaching me invaluable skills and for giving me opportunities to keep progressing over the past 4 years, but also to grow as a person and treat everyone with respect and kindness, and lead by example. Having worked with Natasha and Mark on IDLES, I have seen first-hand what they can achieve as a team. Mark has already built an incredible reputation for Mother Artists, so with Natasha joining on the live side, the sky's the limit.  I’m looking forward to building my own roster as well as being able to continue working closely with Natasha and everyone at Mother Artists. Exciting times ahead!”

Siblings Mark and Natasha Bent joined forces to launch new company Mother Artists at the end of 2020.

Mother Artists is an artist management and live agency, with a human-first approach with compassion, understanding and a hard work ethic at its core.  Operating a ‘no-bullshit policy’, the brother and sister duo will utilise their current areas of expertise, Mark heading up the management division and Natasha the live division.  Mark’s existing company Mother Artist Management will take the new guise of Mother Artists and will continue to work with IDLES, Heavy Lungs, AVAERA & Daffodils and newly signed Magazines, whilst Natasha launches the live side of the company with Alex Amor, Amy Macdonald, Benjamin Booker, Cate le Bon, CMAT, Darwin Deez, Do Nothing, Electric Guest, First Aid Kit, Foster The People, Gotye,  Heavy Lungs, IDLES, Kills Birds, Laura Misch, RY X, The Antlers, The Magic Gang, The Teskey Brothers, Thomas Headon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Violet Skies and Westerman (with more to be added).