Fresh off our first livestream show and on the eve of our next recording session we find ourselves feeling as close to “normal” as we have in months. You can almost forget that you’re living through a pandemic...almost. Sometimes though things just line up for you if you have a strong enough intention and this is one of those times. In this episode we get the rare opportunity to put our former label boss in the hot seat. Miles Copeland was born to two intelligence officers in London and grew up bouncing around the Middle East where his parents were “on assignment.” He started his first record label in 1974 and went bust-rebounded to manage his brother Stewart’s band, The Police, to massive success, along with Sting as a solo artist and went on to found IRS Records, home to the Go-Go’s, REM, Fine Young Cannibals, among others-including a trio out of LA called dada. We scored a hit together and made three albums for the label but instead of becoming an act on par with the biggest at IRS Records, dada ended up loved by fans, but thought of as having ultimately fallen short of its potential. Was it the label? Was it the band? Perhaps a bit of both.