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Management

Jonathan Dickins

Founder, September Management

Founder of September Management, the artist-management company representing Adele.

Last updated 2026-09-16

In short

Jonathan Dickins is Founder at September Management. Has managed Adele's entire recording and touring career and leads a company whose clients include Little Simz, Jamie T and Glass Animals. Jonathan Dickins is founder of September Management.

Quick facts

Current role
Founder
Primary category
Management
Known for
Managing Adele; Founding September Management; Adele's Munich stadium residency

Executive summary

Jonathan Dickins is founder of September Management. His SXSW London 2025 speaker biography and Music Business Worldwide's June 2025 interview with him both describe his roughly two-decade career managing Adele since her earliest years in the business, alongside other September Management clients including Little Simz, Jamie T, Rex Orange County, Glass Animals and Artemas. [2](https://sxswlondon.com/speakers/2025/jonathan-dickins-80e00049) [1](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/jonathan-dickins-talks-adeles-record-breaking-munich-stadium-residency-and-more-in-sxsw-london-interview/)

Dickins's most publicly documented recent project is Adele's 2024 Munich residency, a temporary 80,000-capacity pop-up stadium built for a ten-date run, which Pollstar covered as a potential model for peripatetic stadium touring. He worked on that project alongside Adele's WME agent (and his sister) Lucy Dickins.

September Management has also begun investing outside pure music management, including in West End theatre production, which this profile records as a stated expansion of the company's interests rather than a music-industry claim.

Why Jonathan Dickins matters in live music

Managing a single artist of Adele's scale for two decades gives Dickins outsized influence over how that artist's touring, pricing and venue decisions are made, including the unconventional Munich stadium model that other artist teams have since studied.

His parallel work developing longer-running acts such as Jamie T illustrates a management philosophy oriented toward multi-album career-building rather than short-term viral exposure, a distinction relevant to Live Index's coverage of artist-development economics.

Career record

  1. ~2005Began managing Adele early in her career, according to his own SXSW London account.
  2. OngoingFounded and continues to lead September Management.
  3. 2024Worked on Adele's Munich stadium residency.

Sphere of influence

Levels are categorical — Core, Major, Significant, Limited — and each is stated with the evidence it rests on. No numeric score is published, because none would be defensible.

Artist management
Core
He has managed Adele's entire commercial career and leads a management company with several other developing artists.
Stadium touring innovation
Major
He was a lead figure behind Adele's temporary pop-up stadium residency in Munich, described in trade press as a potential new touring model.
UK artist development
Significant
September Management's roster includes long-developed UK artists such as Jamie T and Little Simz.

Entity relationships

Current

  • Jonathan Dickins founded and leads September Management.

  • Jonathan Dickins manages Adele.

  • Jonathan Dickins worked alongside his sister, WME agent Lucy Dickins.

Timeline

  1. Early 2000sBegan his management career, according to his SXSW biography.
  2. 2024Adele's Munich stadium residency staged.
  3. 2025Discussed his career and September Management's roster on stage at SXSW London.

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