- Bristol sextet Knives has signed with Outer/Most for live music and touring representation across North and South America, with agency founder Todd Walker leading the deal.
- The band continues with Upsurge Artists for Europe/UK excluding France, LOUD Booking for France, and Choice Artists for music management.
- Knives' debut album GLITTER, released via Marshall Records in May 2025, earned praise from Rocksound, Alt Press, and Kerrang.
- This marks Knives' first dedicated booking representation in the Americas, opening the door to U.S. and South American touring and festival dates.
Bristol sextet Knives has signed with Outer/Most for live music and touring representation across North and South America. Agency founder and CEO Todd Walker will lead the deal.
Formed in Bristol in 2022, Knives built their name through relentless local gigging, a sold-out headline show at Rough Trade Bristol, and festival slots at Dot to Dot, Ritual Union, and Bristol Harbour Fest.
The band consisting of Jay Schottlander (vocals), Maddy Hill (saxophone, vocals), Dan Farren and Josh Cook (guitars), Ben Marshall (bass), and Erin Cook (drums) released debut EP Newshounds in 2023, followed by What We See In Their Eyes in 2024.
Their debut album, GLITTER, arrived through Marshall Records in May 2025 and drew praise from Rocksound, Alt Press, and Kerrang. Along the way, Knives have shared stages with Mclusky, CLT DRP, Tokky Horror, and Enola Gay.
The Outer/Most deal is territory-specific: Knives continues with Upsurge Artists for Europe and the UK, excluding France, and LOUD Booking for France, while Choice Artists stays on for music management.
Outer/Most, the independent agency Walker launched in 2020 after leaving Paradigm, has built its roster around boundary-crossing artists including Anoushka Shankar, Nils Frahm, and Ólafur Arnalds.
The agency previously handled RUBII’s Americas booking before she expanded that piece of her deal to UTA earlier this year, and its territory-by-territory approach echoes the strategy behind Big Long Sun’s recent signing with ROAM for EU representation.
Takeaways
Knives just picked up a real growth lever. GLITTER‘s critical reception gave the band momentum in the UK; Outer/Most gives them a specialist team built for the kind of unconventional touring routes (clubs, arts centers, boutique festivals) that tend to suit a genre-blurring band better than a standard rock circuit.
Splitting representation by territory while keeping Choice Artists in the manager’s seat points to a deliberate, staged approach to breaking the U.S. and South America rather than a rushed one.
Can Knives’ saxophone-driven chaos land with North American crowds the way it has in Bristol? Will GLITTER‘s critical acclaim translate into ticket sales without a major U.S. label or radio push? Could this be the first step toward Knives playing U.S. festivals in 2027?
