About Us
ANDREW WILKINSON FCA
Andrew Wilkinson trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick.
In 1976 he joined merchant bankers Leopold Joseph & Sons Ltd. This took him to The Netherlands where he set up the now famous Promo Group of Companies to manage the business affairs of the Rolling Stones.
In 1981 he returned to the UK as partner of Prince Rupert Loewenstein with whom he provided business and investment management services to stars in the entertainment and sports fields. In 1987 Kingstreet Tours Ltd was formed to produce concert tours for in-house clients, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd.
In 1993 Andrew became the manager of Bill Wyman while continuing to develop the speciality of concert tour management and production through Kingstreet Tours Ltd.
In 1999 Andrew co-founded Music3W which he designed to be an Internet marketing portal offering artistes the opportunity to connect with their web based fans. The site, which was adopted as Hewlett Packard's Millennium flagship site, won various prestigious design awards that included: - The Art Directors of America Merit Award and The Gold Award for E-Commerce at the One Show Interactive Awards 2002.
Andrew is a member of the Fundraising Committee and former treasurer of Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, a Charity that uses music in the treatment and care of autistic children. He is also a member of the Fundraising Committee for the MITS (Music Industry Trusts’ Award ) dinner, which supports the The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
UWE SCHMID
Director of Kingstreet Tours Gmbh
Uwe, a German speaking national, spent 6 years working with a leading German promoter where he was responsible for the bookings, organisation and settlement of a wide range of Tours such as The Rolling Stones, U2, David Bowie, Genesis, Meat Loaf, Harry Belafonte, Phil Collins, Janet Jackson and The Corrs. He also has extensive experience in managing the technical aspects of live concert production as site-coordinator, stage manager and sound technician. In recent year’s he has been the Tour accountant, both on and off the road, for a wide range of artistes.
Uwe joined Kingstreet in August 1999 and is the Managing Director of Kingstreet Tours GmbH.
NICKY KENWARD
Account Manager
Nicky has been involved with Kingstreet since 1998. Prior to this, Nicky was an accountant for an entertainments Company involved in major Film, TV and Theatrical Productions. Thereafter she spent many years with the management company Hit and Run Music Limited where she was responsible for all management accounting including artiste royalties and tours. Nicky now specialises in Tour accounting and has dealt with every level of production from minor promotional Tours to major worldwide Tours. The artistes, for whom she has worked both on and off the road, include Genesis. Robbie Williams, Roger Waters and Phil Collins.
