Achal Dhillon, Director, Killing Moon Group
Achal Dhillon started Killing Moon Group in early 2011 in his parents' loft as a new music blog following a string of A&R/artist management positions at Universal Music, Quest Management and Turn First Artists/First Access Entertainment. It has since evolved into one of the UK’s best artist development platforms, encompassing a record label, artist management and live promotions business.
Achal was elected in 2016 to the board of directors at the Association of Independent Music, and is regularly engaged by third party labels and managers on developing artist campaigns as an area of expertise.
He continues to write on the Killing Moon blog, and now also writes on a freelance basis for The Metro (a weekly reach of circa 5 million) and more-recently as an opinion columnist for Music Business Worldwide.
In addition, Achal is a consultant festival booker for Festival Republic focusing on DJs and stage comperes, alongside Killing Moon Live’s position as exclusive talent bookers to Native.fm – a platform with content exclusivity over 75 student unions in the UK, with over 3M subscribers. He has also worked a great deal in the space of creating access to funding/capital for developing artists and new music businesses.
Artists he has worked with currently and historically include Jack Garratt, Rita Ora, Arcade Fire, Fickle Friends, Paul McCartney, Bjork, Ellie Goulding, Annabel Allum, Marsicans, IDLES, Chapter and Verse, Cleopatrick, Bad Nerves and more.
Achal is also a patron (as well as Killing Moon being the largest revenue-generating partner) of the House of St Barnabas in London; a charity operating as a members’ club, with the object of raising funds to eliminate homelessness in the UK.
