Nicola Slade

Nicola Riches (nee Slade) is a music industry journalist, PR and author based in London.

She is author of Download the Lowdown (a guide to downloading music) and How To Make Music In Your Bedroom, a guide to home recording, marketing and distributing your own music without the need for a record label. Both books are published by Random House/Virgin. Slade has signed her third book deal with publishing house Music Sales to produce the Music Managers Forum's 'Music Industry Bible'.

Slade also regularly appears as a music reviewer/commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire show and on a variety of panels at music industry trade events and conferences, such as Musexpo, Canadian Music Week, You Are In Control (Reykjavik), Music Export Finland and by:Larm in Norway.