The Xmas party scene in ‘Finding Your Feet’ needed a well known festive tune performed in an up-tempo style. I recorded and mixed the track as if it were for a 50’s American TV special…I kept imagining Elvis miming to it on a palm-fringed beach. Christine...
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This cheery admission of bad business practice was lent a surreal visual edge through its Busby Berkeley’esque choreography. The lyrics frame a mission statement that is straight out of The Apprentice and are supported by the sounds of a 1930’s big band. Gilad Atzmon and his...
From my BBC3TV sketch series ‘The Message’, just another song about a man with a highly-tuned sense of smell and a woman who stinks of raw sewage. I wrote and sang the song in the manner of an overwrought Elton John ballad with strings and processed drums to match.
Jamie the music impresario delivers this description of his management style as a hip-hop/funk crossover. I reproduced the working practice of a lot of hip-hop by playing the parts, then sampling them off tape and sequencing them digitally. The video features legendary session bass player...
‘Total Country’ started as a sketch in my BBCR4 comedy show ‘Radio9’. When this was commissioned by BBC3TV as ‘The Message’, I adapted the sketch, using the original sound recordings. The musical trajectory of country musician ‘Randy Mann’...