Meet Joel Carriere 

Joel is the label owner/Manager of Bedlam Music Management and Dine Alone Records. Joel had this really awesome idea to do a segment each week on a different Dine Alone/Bedlam Employee and I thought it was quite fitting to feature Joel first. So I asked him a few questions and this is what he had to say. 

What’s the most famous person contact in your phone?

Its so funny because I have lost so many phones with so many phone numbers.  I am going to go off for a second before I answer this, but one of the funniest phone messages I had was from Samuel L Jackson.  He was drunk with a couple of my friends and left me one of the funniest messages ever. His voice is so familiar and engaging.  I saved that bad boy forever.
I guess my “famous” are big players behind the scenes but for this interview it would be bands and celebs.  I guess Gene Simmons and Alecia Moore (Pink) would be the most recognized people around the world. 

What’s you favourite word in the english disctionary

Bedlam and Consternation.  Those were two words that made me feel a bit above the par when I was in high school. As you can tell I wasn’t the most well spoken as kid hahahaha. 


What’s the best thing you have ever stolen from a hotel

I was at a Boutique Hotel in the lower east side of New York.  I will admit I had a couple drinks and ended up in the wrong room.  The door was open and thought it was mine.  I was there for like a minute and realized I walked into the wrong room.  I noticed it was unoccupied and then I remembered that these rooms had a book on sex toys that you could buy.  So I took the book from the empty room and never returned it.  To be honest as I tell this story I know feel absolutely horrible, urgh.

I often wrap my dirty clothes in towels and keep them.  But the book was an actual act of stealing. I might bring it back next time I go now.


what is your favourite part of a live show?

Watching the audience and a band become one for the moment.  I love watching those moments and being in those moments.  I am so lucky because I get to live out my dream of being a professional concert goer. I remember one moment watching Attack in Black open for AOF at the Opera House. They were having one of those shows where the audience and them were one, it was perfect.  I was on the balcony with some employees, family and Dallas watching this band be perfect.  They ended the set with there parents coming out doing a Neil Young cover of “Man Needs a Maid” and it was one of the most powerful moments I have had watching a show.
 I started crying watching them play because it was so beautiful to watch this band, share this moment with there parents on stage.  I remember looking over at Dallas and he had tears in his eyes as well, then realized the whole balcony was in tears.  I felt I was in the band, with them, feeling every note they were playing.  Its those moments that you get to share that are priceless and make up for all the shitty moments you have working in this business.

Whoa- got a little teary there myself, where’s the keelnex? Well there you have it- a little piece of Joel that I’m sure many of you didn’t know before. 
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