What is Hawthorn Entertainment?
Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd. is a UK registered private limited company.

Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd operates as an Employment Agency and Employment Business specialising in the Entertainment Industry, working under the terms of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (as amended).

Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd. is legally entitled to provide services for the purpose of supplying employers with workers (referred to in this document as Artistes).

In its capacity as an Employment Agency, Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd is neither an Artiste nor an Employer. It generally arranges engagements between the two parties thus forming contracts between the Artistes and the Employers.

Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd may also choose to act as an Employment Business. If it should do so, it will enter into separate contracts with both parties.

Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd has other business interests and trading styles in addition to its Employment operation.

The Terms and Conditions contained in this publication supplement any Terms and Conditions that may appear on any confirmation notes, contracts or other legal documents relating to any engagement negotiated in conjunction with Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd.
 

Our Office
Our office contains a state of the art computer network running on STi , the industry's leading booking software.
We are able to access all agency operations outside our normal office hours via high speed Broadband links at the office as well as home, having full control at all times.

All venues and clients can receive the following information and reports at no extra costs: Confirmation lists, Artiste calendars, Statements, Selective artist lists, Vacancy lists, Artiste gig guides, Venue history reports, Inland Revenue for 46R1 printouts, together with a wide range of reports customised for you to simplify your paperwork.

We are now, for example, able to send SMS messages direct from each workstation at our office, as well as remote internet connections to our server from home, or whichever member of our team is 'on call'. This allows us to save many hours per week when confirming artistes, as well as tracking them down when they are late arriving to bookings.

Reply messages are received in the form of an email that is picked up by the member of our team that is on duty that night. We are the first agency in Wales to take advantage of this technology!

We were also the beta testers for the software developers, Mainline Computers Ltd, and were one of the first agencies in the UK to use their software in 1991, following a personal demonstration at our home after a marathon drive from Yorkshire by the two directors of Mainline at the time. Our computer was then an Amstrad 286, believe it or not! 

We are currently the only agency in the UK test driving new STi  technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

This technology enables us to give you a quick and efficient service.

One button access to thousands of acts throughout the UK!

We supply free computer generated publicity on our A2, A3 and A4 inkjet and laser colour printers for every booking, together with additional publicity for extra events at your venue.

Pictures can also be sent to the email address of your choice for newspaper, publisher and other media requirements.

Artiste Public Liability Insurance and PAT Testing
Artistes wishing to obtain further information, contact us for an information pack.

Design Department
We are able to offer a design service at competitive rates for artiste and venue publicity, logos, web design etc..

Look at a sample poster that can be A4, A3, A2, A1 or A0 in size. 

Having studied Graphic Design at Cardiff College Of Art, becoming Sales Director for a printing firm serving Advertising Agencies, PR Agenies etc.... No matter how pretty it looks, if it can't be read on a passing bus, it's useless!!!

Contact us for samples that can be emailed.............

Trade Associations
We are members of the Agents Association (Great Britain), National Entertainment Agency Council who are now part of The National Outdoor Events Association and the Federation of Small Businesses, the only agency in Wales to be members of all three associations, each of which have a strict code of conduct that members are required to observe.

Through our trade associations, we have access to every management, entertainment consultant and agency in Europe.

Contacts
Your contacts with our head office are Company Directors Anita and Neville Williams, Lesley Tatchell, Rachel Williams and Laura Williams.

Richard Jones who has a degree in multi media studies & graphic design is retained by ourselves on a freelance basis with our design department.

All staff are trained to deal with your enquiries, together with artiste liaison duties.

Our office manager is Joanne Garrett who has vast experience in the entertainment, public relations, advertising and newspaper industries, enabling her capable of answering and dealing with any enquiries, questions and problems that arise in the day to day running of this office.
 

All artistes are offered by arrangement with the artistes direct or their respective management or agent, and are offered subject to availability.

No offer contained herein constitutes a contract.

Although Internet copyright law in the UK seems vague, if you wish to use any of the items on this site for your own web site or project, we encourage you to purchase them from the suppliers of these products or services.

We reserve the right to intellectual copyright on files posted on our fileden accounts from material supplied to us by artistes.

Images used on this site are supplied and offered to us either directly by the artiste, or their representative with the purposes of obtaining work for that artiste. No audio or video content is embedded in this site. 

Chris Needs - a top attraction for the special occasion!

Chris Needs - M.B.E. Radio Presenter and actor, Stage performer and piano teacher. Compere and figurehead of a registered charity.
School music teacher and accomplished classical pianist.
Raconteur and award-winning show business personality.

Among his friends he numbers both world-renowned stars and the ordinary person alike, and is a real friend to the thousands of his BBC Radio Wales listeners who tune in to his show every week night, or are among the 40,000+ members of the 'Chris Needs Friendly Garden'.

Since first getting a lift in Richard Burton's car while a youngster (Chris lived in Cwmafan, the next village to Burton's birthplace of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot), he took the plunge himself and entered show business as a keyboard player - at one time accompanying Bonnie Tyler (who's also a regular listener to Chris' shows).
When Welsh Language TV Soap 'Pobol y Cwm' needed an actor to play the part of a hairdresser, Chris decided he fitted the bill and was invited to audition. In a 1995 interview, he told 'The Western Mail' newspaper, "I went up thinking I was well in for the part of the hairdresser and camped it up - but for some strange reason I ended up with the part of a detective sergeant!"
He entered the world of radio broadcasting when he heard on the grapevine that the then newly-formed Touch AM Radio Station needed new presenters. Having made a demo tape in his front room, using a ghetto blaster with "disgusting sound quality", he sent it in to the station.
The rest is history - he became Touch AM's most popular presenter and moved a few years ago to BBC Radio Wales. Having hosted an immensely popular afternoon show, he has now moved to present the late show, and has single-handedly taken his slot to the top.
In the 2005 New Years Honours List, he was announced as M.B.E. for his services to broadcasting and Charity in Wales, and he was invested into the Order by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 22nd, 2005.

Contact us to book Chris

Artiste Availabilities
For this weekend's availabilities in our geographical area, Contact Joanne Garrett at our office by telephone 01656 662835 or email as these dates change by the hour