Media Five Entertainment

Media Five Entertainment

Media Five Entertainment is a United States artist management and booking agency assisting the careers of musicians in the music industry. In addition to regional headliners, the agency has worked with some of the biggest names in music.

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History

Media Five was founded in 1970 by David Sestak, a musician and artist from Pennsylvania. The agency specialized in booking regional bands and bringing national acts such as Aerosmith, Billy Joel, and Kiss to eastern Pennsylvania under the name Extensions of Man Concerts. In the 1980s, as the company had established itself as a booking agency, Media Five further expanded to create an artist management division, striving to nurture local bands from the ground up and guide them through recording, album releases, radio promotion, marketing campaigns and touring. These artists have sold a combined 20 million records worldwide.

Worldwide success

Sestak gets credit for bringing Live, once just a local band from York, Pennsylvania, to super-stardom in the mid 1990s with their breakout second album, Throwing Copper fueled by the #1 hit single, Lightning Crashes. Sestak was the band's general manager until mid 2000, and is thanked first in the liner notes of Live's first four major label albums, Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi, and The Distance To Here. In 1998, Sestak also played a vital role in the success of Fuel, another Pennsylvania band with two platinum albums to their credit, including 2000's Something Like Human. That album yielded the #1 modern rock hit Hemorrhage (In My Hands). The song was recently named Billboard's #1 5 rock song of the 2000's. [1] Media Five has also represented and managed notable bands like Breaking Benjamin, Weston, July For Kings, Solution AD and Joe Hedges.

Billy Joel

Media Five played a role in the career of Billy Joel. In particular, all but one performance by Joel in the Lehigh Valley area was put together by David Sestak himself which created a bond between Joel and local residents that continues to this day. Joel’s familiarity with the area undoubtedly inspired the naming of one of his best-known songs, Allentown,” which was released in 1982. In December 1982, continued interest of Joel's music in the Allentown-Bethlehem area led Sestak to persuade local music director Bruce Bond to start a petition drive asking Joel to play in Allentown, which was eventually signed by more than 10,000 people.

When Joel’s fall tour was announced there was no Allentown date, however Sestak had been collecting news clippings and sending them to Joel’s publicist, Elaine Shock, who apparently passed them on to Joel. Joel personally phoned radio station 95.1 WZZO FM to discuss, and on December 27, 1982, Joel performed for 6,300 people at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. “Everyone was there,” said Sestak. “Billy Joel finally played `Allentown', in Bethlehem.” [2]

Current operations

Media Five Entertainment represents and books nearly 25 original and cover bands in the eastern United States. Sestak also chaired the "Managers, Agents and Promoters" panel in February 2008 at Pennsylvania's annual Millennium Music Conference, which for the past 12 years has become one of the premier music events on the East Coast. [3]

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References

  1. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-decade-end/rock-songs?year=2009
  2. ^ Royal treatment bonded Billy Joel to 'Allentown' » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire
  3. ^ [ MMC12 - The 12th Annual Millennium Music Conference and Showcase - February 14-17th, 2008 - Harrisburg - Camp Hill, PA ]

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