Biography

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Compositions Include:

TV

Superstars of Dance

Theme music for Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythogoe's International Reality Dance Competition TV show on NBC (USA) 

Film

Sus

Forthcoming film directed by Robert Heath

Second Chance

Forthcoming Short film by Clint Dyer and Mark Straker

One Of Us

Short film by Clint Dyer and Mark Straker

Pukka

Short film by Clint Dyer and Mark Straker

Orchestral and String Arrangements Include:

Albums / Singles

Plan B (679/Atlantic)

Number 1 album 'The Defarmation of Strickland banks', which includes single 'She Said'

Florence + The Machine (Island)

Album 'Lungs'

Pixie Lott (Mercury)

Arrangements on album 'Turn It Up' including single 'Cry Me Out'

Kate Nash (Polydor)

Forthcoming album

Camilla Kerslake (Mercury)

Album 'Camilla Kerslake' (Co-produced, string and vocal arrangements)

The Priests

Album 'Harmony' (Co-produced, string and vocal arrangements)

The Priests (Epic)

Album 'The Priests' (Co-produced, string and vocal arrangements)

Radiohead (XL)

Album 'In Rainbows'

Duffy (Polydor)

Album 'Rockferry'

Howling Bells (Independiente)

Album 'Radio Wars'

Glasvegas (Columbia)

Single 'Cruel Moon'

White Lies (Polydor)

Album 'To Lose My Life...'

The Count & Sinden (Domino)

Forthcoming Album

Sharleen Spiteri (Mercury)

Album 'Melody'

Robbie Williams (EMI)

Album ‘Escapology’ including singles ‘Feel’, ‘Come Undone’ and ‘Sexed Up’

Manic Street Preachers (Epic)

Singles ‘Everything Must Go’, ‘This Is My Truth’ and ‘Know Your Enemy’

Zero 7 (Atlantic)

Albums ‘Simple Things’ and ‘When It Falls’ Including singles ‘I Have Seen’ and ‘Somersault’

Travis (Independiente)

Album ‘The Man Who’

Angus & Julia Stone (Independiente)

Forthcoming album

Stephen Fretwell (Fiction)

Forthcoming single ‘New York’

Natalie Imbruglia (BMG/RCA)

Albums ‘White Lilies Island’ and ‘Counting Down The Days’

Tina Turner (Parlophone)

Album ‘All The Best’

Idlewild (Parlophone)

Album ‘The Remote Part’ including the single ‘World In Your Arms’

The Tears (Independiente)

Album ‘Here Comes The Tears’ including the single ‘Refugee’

Delta Goodrem (Epic)

Album ‘Mistaken Identity’

Kylie Minogue (Deconstruction)

Album ‘Impossible Princess’

Suede (Sony)

Album ‘A New Morning’

Magnet (Ultimate Dilemma)

Album ‘On Your Side’ including the single ‘Lay Lady Lay’

3 Colours Red (Creation)

Album ‘Revolt’ including the single ‘Beautiful Day’

Siouxsie Sioux

‘The Dream Show’ 23 tracks arranged for orchestra live at the festival hall with the Millenia Ensemble, performances and DVD.

Deep Purple

‘Live At The Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra’, performances and album.

Additional arrangements for bands including:

Ocean Colour Scene

Babybird

Long-View

Jimmy Somerville

South

Dexy’s Midnight Runners

Kenesis

Cousteau

Darius

Toploader

The Veils

Funeral For A Friend

Additional recordings and live performances with bands including:

Paul McCartney

Snow Patrol

The Doves

John Cale

Elbow

Super Furry Animals

Massive Attack

David Gray

Bjork

Jools Holland Big Band

Texas

Stereophonics

Nick Drake

David Axelrod

Recording, live & TV work includes:

Radiohead

Muse

Duffy

Kate Nash

James Blunt

Paul McCartney

The Doves

Elbow

Manic Street Preachers

Bernard Butler

Spiritualised

Massive Attack

David Gray

Big Brovaz

Ed Harcourt

Starsailor

3 Colours Red

Super Furry Animals

Lisa Stansfield

Nerina Pallot

Texas

The Boo Radleys

Bjork

Zero 7

Nick Drake

Snow Patrol

John Cale

Jools Holland Big Band

Stereophonics

David Axelrod

Ray Lamontagne

 

Recordings for film includes:

Fever Pitch

The Tribe

Broken Glass

Jude

Peggy Sue

Death of a Salesman

Carravagio

Co-Writes

Chillout Library Album Written 4 tracks on chillout library album (West One)

Maresa Co-wrote and produced forthcoming album tracks (Atlantic)

Jerry Burns Co-wrote and produced album from which the song Angel’ features in ‘Crush’, a film made by Film Four starring Andy MacDowell (2002/2003)

Jimmy Somerville Co-writer, co-producer and programmer for album (Gut)

‘Manage The Damage’ including singles ‘Something to Live For’(1999), ‘Lay Down’(1999) and ‘Dark Sky’(1998)

Frances Ruffelle Co-wrote two tracks on solo album (1995)

Banderas Composer/Keyboards/Production (London)

Band formed with singer/songwriter Caroline Buckley in 1998. Signed to Island Music Publishing and London Records in 1989. 3 singles including the hit ‘This Is Your Life’ and album ‘Ripe’ (1991)

Compositions

Short film “Pukka”

Composed music for forthcoming short film “Pukka” for UK Film Council & Screen East

Pepsi commercial

Wrote and orchestrated music for the Pepsi commercial (Kung Fu) (2002/2003)

Poems on the Underground

Composed new work for a performance at the Conway Hall in February 2002

VISA commercial

Wrote and orchestrated music for the Visa commercial for Saatchi and Saatchi starring Bruce Willis (2002)

The Orchestra

Composed new work for a performance at Cargo in December 2001

Oxfam commercial

Wrote music for Oxfam advert (2001)

EMI Classics Film Compilation Album

Scored and produced track “Any Other Name” from American Beauty for EMI Classics Film Compilation album (Christmas 2001)

The Orchestra

Re-scored “Angel“ by Jerry Burns and “Here I Am” by Jimmy Somerville for a performance by The Orchestra at the 291 (2000)

When the Music Stops

Composer of incidental music for B.F.I. funded film by Steve McLean. (1998)

Words

Remix of Low single "Words" for Caroline Records USA (1998)

Vacuum

Music score for a film written and directed by Teresa McCann (1998)

In My Dream

Music score for short film written & directed by Marianne Jenkins (1998)

Yellow Fever

Composer of music for forthcoming film by Ray Yeung (1997)

Postcards from America

Musical arrangements of songs on film by Steve McLean (1995)

Shared Experience Theatre Group

Incidental music for production of "Desire Under The Elms" Toured nationally London performances at Tricycle Theatre (1995)

Goblin Market

Original score commissioned by Poems on the Underground for two voices ensemble. Performed with Apollo Chamber Orchestra at Royal Academy of Music (1994) National Portrait Gallery (1995) and recorded on video by British Library Education Department.

DV8 Physical Theatre

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men (1988)
(Recorded for the South Bank Show).

My Body My Body (1987)

If Only...(1990)

Last of England

Musical arrangement for Derek Jarman film (1987)

Jean Genet

Composer of music for short film by Connie Giannaris (1986)

4 Songs from The Underground

Commissioned by poems on the Underground. Performed at Conway Hall with Apollo Chamber Orchestra (1996). Written and scored 4 new works, performed at the Conway Hall in February 2002