[1] In November, 2018, amid the sweeping Indian #MeToo movement, numerous allegations of sexual impropriety and abusive behavior emerged around the company culture under Vijay Nair's tenure as co-founder and CEO.
[2][3] Nair started his career at 15 by doing marketing gigs for Procter & Gamble's web portal Masti.com, and the indie music forum, Gigpad.com.
[4][5][6][7][8] Nair dropped out of Sydenham College, after completing his first year, at 18, and began independently managing artists, booking, and promoting shows in Mumbai and across India.
Meanwhile, Talwar continued performing with Zero, graduated with a law degree from GLC, and began working as a media and entertainment lawyer.
Nair and Talwar soon set up an office in Shivaji Park, in Zero's first jam-pad, and officially incorporated Only Much Louder as an artist management company in 2006.
[7][11][12][13] At one time OML ran a digital publication, video production house, booking agency, record label, and live event company.
Until 2011, the company hadn't employed more than 20 people, had no HR department and worked out of apartments in Mumbai including initially out of Nair's parents’ home in Malad, and later in Bandra.
Only Much Louder has since limited its scope to managing a smaller roster of artists, who are majorly comedians, and curating its flagship arts and comedy festival.
They further diversified their music roster with the addition of electronic artists like Dualist Inquiry, Sandunes and Nucleya, while also briefly representing Naezy and other hip-hop musicians.
By April, 2017, the company had dropped a large portion of their music roster, including long time signees Swarathma.
In 2020, OML forayed into managing creators such as Dolly Singh, Ankush Bahuguna, Larrisa D'Sa along with writers, directors, mentalists and Chefs.
Initially Babble Fish began shooting live events, making digital content and music videos for Indian independent artists.
They also created music videos for Pentagram, Shaai'r + Func, Them Clones, and Raghu Dixit alongside shooting concerts like Iron Maiden.
The same year, Babble Fish produced the music video for Mumford & Sons song, The Cave, which was directed by Pulse Films in Goa.
Before All India Bakchod developed an in-house production unit, Babble Fish was responsible for creating their YouTube content.
OML also booked Indian tours for Russell Peters, Bill Burr, Enrique Iglesias, Mumford & Sons and other musicians and comedians.
After meeting Glastonbury festival bookers Stephen Budd and Martin Elbourne, the trio put together the first edition in Pune, in 2010.
[39] The publication reviewed and wrote features with a primary focus on Indian and sub-continental artists, and alternative culture, with added global coverage.
Ravi works as the India head for Red Bull Media House, while Srinivasan went on to create, the ticketing platform, PayTM Insider.
The initial compilation releases included singles from Raghu Dixit Project, Brute Force, Skinny Alley, Pentagram, Them Clones, Zero and other Indian artists.
In November 2018, three senior management executives were named as sexual assailants by multiple woman associates and employees of the company.
Those accused were Vijay Nair (former CEO and co-founder), Girish Raj (former project lead and festival director), and Gaurav Dewani (former head of sales).
Numerous allegations of sexual impropriety and abusive behavior emerged surrounding the company culture under Vijay Nair's tenure as co-founder and CEO.
Managing partners, Ajay Nair and Tulika Yadav were also criticized for continuing to foster a hostile environment, while ignoring specific complaints.
[42][43] In response, OML issued a statement and said the article "selectively picks certain incidents from the last 8 years to paint a biased, one-sided picture."
They also added that Vijay Nair has parted ways with the company six months prior to the publication of the story and that no allegations were made during his tenure as chief-executive.
Dewani's case was dismissed as a minor infraction and did not result in any severe consequences according to an internal investigation conducted by the company.