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<\/p>\nThe former Mr. Madonna, film director Guy Ritchie, has launched a record label named after his London pub The Punchbowl. Punchbowl Recordings, a subsidiary of label giant Universal Music, has already made its first signing — the pub’s in-house Irish group, The Punchbowl Band. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s exciting to venture into the world of the music industry,”<\/em> Ritchie said in a statement issued by Universal on Monday. “It’s a tough place, but I’ve witnessed this band connect with people first hand. They have every chance of being embraced by a wider audience and I genuinely wish them the very best of luck with their debut album.”<\/em><\/p>\n The Punchbowl Bowl — featuring Willy Barr, Brendan McAuley, Steve Mulhern, and Daniel Gott — preformed on the soundtrack of Ritchie’s current box office blockbuster Sherlock Holmes<\/em>.<\/p>\n The former Mr. Madonna, film director Guy Ritchie, has launched a record label named after his London pub The Punchbowl. Punchbowl Recordings, a subsidiary of label giant Universal Music, has already made its first signing — the pub’s in-house Irish group, The Punchbowl Band. “It’s exciting to venture into the world of the music industry,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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