How can I raise £2,000,000?

[Aj]

I know this sounds extreme, but let me explain. I have worked in the music industry for 15 years now. I started off in bands when I was 18 years old. When I was 22 I gained my first recording experience while in a band called 'Full-Force' working with producers & engineers from Mute records (parented by EMI records), and now Mute records belong to Universal records (part of Universal Music Group (UMG)). I am currently working with an indie pop/rock band at the minute that will be releasing there debut single into the UK charts over Christmas.
I know people may say that 'if any one had a couple of million quid, then any one will be able to do it', but trust me, it does not work like that. With a great deal of respect most people do not possess the knowledge I have regards music, let alone experience, connections, etc. The only thing that is stopping me from turning my great singers into top recording artists at the highest level is MONEY.
Yes, I have options. I can carry on doing what I am doing now i.e working with bands on the way up, or I could find a job at a record company, but I want to take my record label places as it is in every ones nature to want to follow there dreams, and there is nothing wrong with that. What I want to know is, how can I raise that kind of money? How can I get investors on my side?
All comments welcome and appreciated, and if you want to add me on Facebook that partly promotes my label, then feel free. Log into Facebook as normal, and in the info bar type in Neil Negartrecords. I hope to hear from you all very soon, and Thank you all.
@ Steve B. I am networking with at least hundreds of people in the industry, ranging from; record producers, sound engineers, recording artists, managers, A&R guys, musicians, etc. I have been offered the chance to go to LA to work with a 11 time grammy award winner producer/engineer, but the problem is that I have not got the money to start projects with him. Although he'll provide the studio and his skills, It's the bigger picture I'm looking at and he can only help me so much, which I do really appreciate. I am at a good level now but to get to the top would mean every thing to me, and I will be able to help those people who have a passion for music as well as the talent to take there career further. So It's not all about me, I understand that.

[Jasper]

Check out something like The Music Week Directory and just start calling people, if you call enough people enough time eventually someone might give you a chance.

If you do figure out how to make 2 mil, let me know!

[Steve B]

Same way most in your position would ... friends & relatives and CONTACTS ..

By now you should have come across many recording artists and their managers .. those are your CONTACTS .. if you failed to 'suck up' and 'make friends' with them when you had the opportunity, start now ,..

Get names & details ... tell them what you plan and ask for their help .. even if they don't want to put in their own money they might be able to put you onto some-one who will

[John D]

It's hard to take this, but it's just true, or seems to be. We don't actually know you from one question on YA. My brother-in--law is the in-house sound man for Metallica, and he started at The Plant, a legendary but now defunct West Coast recording studio. He did Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, and 100's more that I don't remember or never knew. He's the same as you in many ways, I'm guessing. He's an artist, he's "sound", he's earthy and hip at the same time. What he ~isn't~ is a recording executive. He's a working stiff in the trenches, and he's happy there. Ask yourself what you would do with 2 million pounds - I mean in detail. Where and how would you spend it, exactly? How would you turn that 2 million into 3 in a year, exactly? You're an artist and I gather a producer or something like that, but are you a business person, do you have an MBA, have you ever been in the driver's seat before? If you can rise above your "job" and get to the point where you run the place or own the place, then fine, do that. But just having a lot of cash is no guarantee of success - in fact many people squander venture capital for those very reasons. It's about growth - you sell a band, the next goes platinum, you buy a studio, it's a hit with everybody in the industry, you win some Grammy's and then one day you look at your bank account and it has 2 million pounds in it........