I’m very pleased to announce that Dinopaws was nominated for a kids BAFTA! The ceremony was on Sunday the 23rd of November. Unfortunately we missed out on the win but heart congratulations goto “Sarah and Duck”
http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/childrens
I’ve done a little arranging work for my friend Dan Arnold who’s father recently passed away to cancer. He has released the track “Down by the cherry tree” on iTunes as a charity single, with all proceeds going to cancer research.
There is an article about Harry Arnold in the Mirror here
The iTunes link to the song is here
I’ve just finished mixing and mastering the live album “Brown Bear’s Pic Nic” taken from various live gigs in 2014. I’ve been a member of the band for 4 years now and it’s really a blast. Recent appearances with the include the Cambridge Rock Festival and Danfest at the musician in Leicester.
You can audition and download the album from the bands website
In July I finished work on Dinopaws the brand new CGI children’s animation series. I composed the incidental music for 24 episodes. The fantastic Sandy Nuttgens and Alex Parsons handled the other eps. The show is currently being shown in CBeebies on weekday mornings and also in 10 other territories worldwide. You can have a look anytime via the BBC iPlayer or have a look at the videos below.
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I’ve recently returned from conducting the limelight orchestra for the third annual Nottingham rocks gig at the theatre royal.
As ever, the were four artists/bands, each performing 5 songs, all of which I had to arrange for the artists and the orchestra. In previous years I’ve worked with artists such as Indiana, Saint Raymond, Amber Run and Natalie Duncan. This year it was the turn of The Afterdark Movement, Noah, Shelter Point and Joel Baker. All very different but all great artists and songwriters.
This was a fun gig for Signature Entertainment: “Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Songs”. I had to arrange and produce the backings for 36 songs and nursery rhymes and then record 3 fantastic singers (all UK children’s TV voices). Then music videos were constructed around the recorded songs . The director was keen to play with the genres used to accompany these classic tunes and the result was a really fun DVD/iTunes download.
Back in October last year I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Maidstone Youth Music Society along with fellow musician Graham Mann. I jumped at the chance because I grew up myself benefitting from going to “MYMS” and cutting my teeth on percussion in its wind bands and orchestras.
In the planning sessions that followed, Graham and I decided to split the piece into 4 movements, he took the outer ones, leaving me with the filling in the sandwich. It was quite a challenge working out how to connect the musicians who comprised beginners to grade 8 players but we managed to find a path that worked which necessitated the creation of a rather large score.
In the end we had over 170 performers at the premier at Mote Hall in Maidstone including 4 wind bands, a symphony orchestra, a string orchestra, percussion ensemble and choir. I also had the honour of rehearsing and conducting the performance at the gig which was rather fun.
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