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Aoife Lavery

Music publicist and DJ, Senior Publicist & Client Relations Lead at Neighbourhood PR (NBHD Group), Irish-born and UK-based.

Sep 25, 2026

speaker_1HOST
25:22
Yes.
25:22
Um, I think that storytelling's a massive part of it and, and it's ve- very, very rare cases that it's just about the music, uh, or if it's even about the numbers now.
25:34
Um, like, I've had artists that I've worked with who have had multiple millions of, uh, s- um, monthly streams, they se- selling out tours globally, and I couldn't get more than two interviews for their fir- their debut album on, like, a very highly regarded, um, publication because they just weren't well...
25:57
Or not publication, label, because they, um, weren't prepared to give more than the basic of the, of the, um, storytelling, which, uh, I tried time and time again to, to explain.
26:14
Uh, but it just didn't really hit.
26:17
Um, I guess, and then, yeah, and the s- sometimes, sometimes it, it i- it is just all you need is a name, and-
speaker_1HOST
26:25
Yeah
26:25
... people will jump.

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