It started with listening

Long before Greylock Music existed, founder Patrick Farrell was looking across the Atlantic for what was coming next.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, Patrick developed a fascination with the music coming out of places like Glasgow, Manchester and London. As music moved online, that curiosity eventually led him to XFM, where he would listen from the US to the separate Scotland, Manchester and London streams—following the different artists, presenters and local scenes each brought with them. XFM also introduced him to John Kennedy and X-Posure, reinforcing a habit that has lasted for decades: keep listening, especially before everyone else is.

Music has remained a constant ever since. Patrick has attended more than 500 live performances in the US and Europe, from tiny rooms and support slots to concert halls and festivals, while continuing to spend an almost unreasonable amount of time listening to new music.

Over the years, Patrick developed a habit of finding artists through places like Bandcamp and mp3.com, small shows and other corners of the emerging-music world—often before there was much of a bandwagon to join. Among the artists he was following before their first LPs were Wolf Alice, CHVRCHES, Halsey, Pale Waves, Fontaines DC, Sam Fender, Holly Humberstone, Gracie Abrams and The Last Dinner Party.

Patrick also plays electric and acoustic guitar—enthusiastically, if not especially well—and spent six years playing trumpet and euphonium. Enough to appreciate what happens on the other side of the stage, and enough to know better than to tell a guitarist what chord to play.

Turning listening into something useful

Greylock Music grew from a question: could a lifetime spent finding artists early become something useful to the artists themselves?

We're building an independent A&R and artist-development company around a simple idea: find interesting artists early, listen carefully, see them live and, where there's a fit, help give them more room to grow.

Greylock isn't interested in telling artists who they should become. We're interested in recognizing what makes them interesting in the first place—and helping them do more with it.