Kim Hawes (Tour Manager)
Now an educator and author.
Kim has come a long way from her early days of rolling posters, selling merchandise to a Tour Accountant, Tour Manager then Crisis Manager.
She have been recognised for her achievement as a “Pioneer for Women“ in the music industry and Tour Management with an Honorary Fellows from UCLAN.
Kim has has many years of touring, in fact over 4 decades and in a business usually reserved for men. 10 of those years being spent with one of the most notorious rock bands ever, Motorhead.
Through that experience she was head hunted and went to America to become one the very first female tour managers in the world, working with over 40 bands and over 10 major labels meeting so many influential super stars along the way. With so many stories she’s written them all down in her book ‘Lipstick and Leather’ out 6th April 2023 published by Sandstone Press.