Twenty-nine years on from its founding as a four-man Vancouver-based label, Nettwerk Music Group is now a three-pronged operation with a publishing and management arm complementing the record division. That’s across offices in LA, New York, Hamburg and London as well as the company’s Canadian headquarters - not bad for what label manager Charlie Larby still calls a “little indie”.

The success coming from all three departments is growing too: the publishing arm has Sinead O’Connor on its books as ...