Ignition Management

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Ignition Management is a music management company with offices in London and Los Angeles. It was founded in 1983 by Marcus Russell, who was then managing the London band Latin Quarter, and is now run with Alec McKinlay. Early clients included The Bible, Johnny Marr, The The, Bernard Sumner and Electronic. In May 1993, Ignition signed Oasis, who went on to sell over 70 million albums and become one of the world’s biggest touring bands. Oasis’s 2008–2009 tour drew about 1.1 million fans and ended with the band’s breakup in 2009. A reunion tour was announced in 2024; UK shows sold out in under an hour, with ten million fans from 158 countries queuing online to buy about 1.4 million tickets. Between 2000 and 2010, Ignition also managed Mercury Rev, Black Mountain, Neil Finn and Crowded House. In 2016, Russell and McKinlay invested in the ticket resale platform Twickets.