For the next month or so I'm working on two new pieces of theatre in Leeds. They're completely unrelated, but my gigs do have a tendency to clump geographically, as random things are apt to. I try not to read anything into it but my irrational neo-cortex doesn't half like inferring deep meaning into patterns where there …
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15 Minutes Live by Slung Low, which played this year at The Holbeck (previously Holbeck Working Men's Club), Leeds, was an awful lot of fun. More than I was expecting! I'm trying to pick apart why, and here are my thoughts. Is it just that I'm older and wiser, I'm working with friends, I'm far …
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January was all about Third Angel's Partus and in February I worked on the preliminary score for Red Star's latest 3D animation. An excellent, varied and challenging start to the year in all the right ways. I'm now starting to think about the latest edition of 15 Minutes Live - on at The Holbeck, Leeds, 10th …
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Sheffield Crucible Theatre, 9-18 July 2015. Listen to the Soundtrack Album of Camelot: The Shining City on your favourite online service here. I've been working on the score to Camelot: The Shining City solidly for the last month and a half, and it's all just about plotted and rehearsal-ready. Dress Rehearsals are in a fortnight so …
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The soundtrack album of music from Slung Low's Emergency Story Penguin, a play written by John Hunter and co-produced by Dep Arts, has been released. It's available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon,YouTube and all the other online outlets. For an insight into the process of writing songs - and specifically a breakaway pop hit sensation(!) - for Emergency Story Penguin and other Slung Low shows, …
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In January, I hit the ground running. I sketched out a plot of the cues in the Emergency Story Penguin script, Slung Low’s latest children’s show. I realised there was a lot of music in this show and I better get started pronto!
Take the whole family to save Christmas at Z-Arts in Manchester! Made by Slung Low, the show runs until Christmas Eve, and tickets are going fast. Shows are at 11am, 2pm, 4pm and 7pm most days from this Saturday (20th Dec) onwards. ---The full album is available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and all other good …
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The soundtrack album of music from Slung Low's The White Whale, an adaptation of Moby Dick by James Philips, is now officially released. It's available on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon, Spotify and all the other online retailers. Click here to read a few more thoughts about working on this awesome show, and links to images from the show are here. Read …
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The White Whale is up and running. It's sold out and the waiting list has been closed. Some people are resorting to turning up on the night just in case there are audience member no-shows (I'm not suggesting this as a course of action, but I understand that needs must etc.)
I'm in the process of scoring The White Whale for Slung Low. It's on in September. Tickets are free but there aren't many left... call The Carriageworks Theatre on 0113 2243801 for the last few remaining. In my last two posts I talked about priming the subconscious to do the heavy lifting when it comes to …
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