I'm currently writing the score for Original Bearings by Slung Low for the I Love West Leeds Festival. As a culmination of the show, a coach-tour of Holbeck becomes something more as the fictions told by our tour guide start to become reality. The show plays from 12th-15th October 2011, starting at The West Yorkshire Playhouse. --- …
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Well this is all rather exciting... I got my first official album release! The John Akii-Bua Story is available on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and Last.fm. V exciting for me anyways. 🙂 Listen on Spotify Buy on Amazon Buy through iTunes Listen on Last.fm The John Akii-Bua Story: An African Tragedy is a feature-length documentary about …
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The soundtrack album of music from The Fifth Mind is now officially released. It's available from most online outlets including but not limited to Spotify, Amazon, YouTube and, of course, iTunes.
Miasma is the new Xbox Indie game from ESP Games, featuring no fewer than three tracks from yours truly. This is fairly momentous for me as I think it's the first time my compositions have appeared in a commercially available video game. Yay! New page in the credits section methinks... Anyways, the game is coool! …
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Or so the tagline goes for the new show I'm composing for, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, which will play at the Everyman Playhouse in Liverpool later this year.
Note: 'Mr Bojagi' has now finished its short but very successful run on Daily Motion but you can still scroll down to watch me talk about the process of scoring the film and watch some other behind-the-scenes interviews with Brian and the rest of the cast and crew here. Brian Blessed stars in the fabulous, …
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This post was originally written for ScorecastOnline.com. Ever have those days where you just don't feel like it? And no matter how much you stare at that blank sequencer page, the notes just aren't forthcoming? And you wonder if you'll ever get that li'l spark of inspiration back... How do you get your compositional, creative, …
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I love soundifying Slung Low's promos. They're so flippin' exciting! 🙂 The hit sell-out show is on tour... Sold out at the Barbican in October, They Only Come At Night: Visions is moving to the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, next week (23-28th November, 2009). So if you didn't get your ticket before they all sold …
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Every night in every town something happens at the edges of where people want to look. A pool of blood on a door step. A murder in a car park. A stabbing at a bus stop. Many are blamed but perhaps the real truth is lurking in the shadows and about to be revealed. They …
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EDIT: TOCANLive is offline now. It was a wonderful experience to make and so this post is here for posterity. Slung Low, the fantabulous theatrical collective, is launching TOCANLive this Monday, 10th August. TOCANLive is an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) that will expand the world of 'They Only Come At Night', Slung Low's series of …
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