about rush!
The team behind the noise.
RUSH! is a small Bristol-based team. A working musician. A gig photographer. And 20+ years of marketing experience behind the scenes. All in the same scene as the bands we work with.
Why RUSH! Exists
Good music gets overlooked. That bothers us.
Grassroots bands are strong on the music and stuck on everything else. The posting, the promo, the photos, the press. It adds up to a second job. And it competes with the time you need to actually create.
Proper marketing support has always sat behind a label deal or a 4-figure invoice. So most bands do it themselves at midnight, or don't do it at all. Either way, good music slips by unheard.
RUSH! exists to close that gap. Professional-standard promotion, priced for the stage you're actually at.
The Team
3 people. 1 job. Keeping your band visible.
No account managers. No handovers. The people on this page are the people who answer your messages, stand in your venue and build your campaigns.
Founder and Creative Lead
Hi, I'm Hannah.
I'm a musician first. I play bass in Bristol punk-rock band MOXIE DOLLS, I gig, I rehearse, and I know exactly what it feels like to grow a band around work, life and a feed that always needs feeding.
I'm also a BIMM Bristol graduate and trained inside a working marketing agency before launching RUSH! So the content looks professional without ever making the act feel fake.
Every artist and band that works with RUSH! starts with me. I run your brand direction session, plan your content and stay your point of contact throughout.
Follow @hanzhodgesphotographer β the one in the pit
Kieran
If RUSH! shot your gig, Kieran wasΒ definitelyΒ the one stood in front of the stage. He's the photographer behind our live coverage, press shoots and promo work.
Live music is hard to shoot. Low light, fast movement, no second takes. Kieran's speciality is catching the moment that makes people wish they'd been in the room... the shot your posters and EPK are missing.
His photos run through everything RUSH! makes.
Follow @kah.photography_
strategy β behind the scenes
Ant
Ant has spent more than 20 years running marketing for businesses of every size. At RUSH! he stays behind the scenes, where he's happiest.
He shapes the strategy, sanity-checks the plans and keeps the numbers honest. He's also the reason RUSH! can promise agency-standard work at grassroots prices. The systems already exist. The bands just get the benefit.
Ant has also been twanging his 6-string since his teenage years and enjoys playing a few cheesy country tunes every now and then.
Follow @AntHodgesHow We Work
The rules we don't break.
Scene-fluent
We're in the venues, at the gigs and in the rehearsal rooms. Not watching from an office.
Straight-talking
No jargon, no mystery deliverables, no upsell scripts. You'll always know what we're doing and why.
Polished-DIY
Professional standard, grassroots spirit. The act stays the hero... their photo biggest, their name loudest.
On your side
Fixed prices. No tie-ins. You keep everything we make, forever. And the release date is sacred.
Small Team. Solid Ground.
Grassroots prices. Agency standards.
RUSH! is a HodgesNet Ltd brand. Every band we work with gets the structure of an established marketing company... reliable delivery, clear agreements and 20+ years of campaign experience... at prices built for where grassroots bands actually are.
We keep the roster small on purpose. Every act gets proper attention, not a copy-paste service.
Come say hi.
20 minutes. No pitch deck. No jargon. Just tell us where your band is stuck.