As well as recording / mixing sound, at one point I was also composing music for television and managed to share my time between the different jobs. I played in a band and also ran my own small studio in Manchester.

I was commissioned to write music for a few different documentaries and entertainment shows:

  • Gene Detectives (genealogy show for BBC 1)
  • The Real Middle Earth (documentary DVD)
  • The Machine (quiz show for ITV)
  • Room by Room (home renovation show for Discovery)
  • Hailey’s Story (crime documentary for Channel 5)
  • Reality Bites (cookery show for ITV)
  • Acting Up (early web comedy show)

After a few years of doing this, I struck up a composing partnership with my bandmate Will Lewis, and through a contact in London started pitching music for commercials. Some exapmles of what we came up with are below:

Pitch for a Ford commercial
Pitch an for Ariel commercial
Pitch for an Electoral Commission commercial
Pitch for a Head & Shoulders commercial
Pitch for a VW commercial

Here is a SoundCloud playlist consisting of the best of what we put together over the years. Some tracks written for commission, others for commercial pitches and others for music library use. Many tracks are now represented by library music company Skipjack Music and often find their way onto shows such as Masterchef an Place in the Sun.