News
May 6th 2107
Revolting Rhymes had its world premiere in Dublin at the National Concert Hall on Saturday. Three screenings with orchestral accompaniment conducted by Terry Davies.
May 1st 2017
Revolting Rhymes will have its live premiere in Dublin on the 5th of May
https://www.nch.ie/Online/Revolting-Rhymes-06May17
Feb 22nd 2017
In Melbourne recording 2 new tracks at Sing Sing
13th October 2016
Recording Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes score down at British Grove
01 August 2016
Signed on to score Roadl Dahls Revolting Rhymes to be released for Christmas.
17 July 2016
Finished a piece for Curzon Cinemas to be released at the end of September. Recorded in Glasgow at Gorbals Sound.. what a beautiful studio
16th of March 2016
I recently did an interview on composing music for Gumball and animation.
http://www.beyondthecartoons.com/ben-locket
12th of March 2016
http://www.britishanimationawards.com/BAA%202016/BAA2016%20Winners.htm
26th of January 2016
A busy year! So busy that I didn’t update a thing. Season 4 of Gumball is pretty much complete. There has been plenty of work outside of that too plus I have also just begun working on an album and Im not sure what direction that will take yet…
01 of January 2015
Two animated short films for Nickelodeon almost finished !
17th of December 2014
Recording session in Budapest
24th of October 2014
The promo for season 2 of Gumball I worked on has been nominated for a BAFTA ..fingers crossed : )
http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/childrens/short-form
12th of June 2104
Trailer music finished for a feature special of Fireman Sam.
29th April of 2014
Orchestral session is taking place for season three of The Amazing World of Gumball.
12th of February 2014
Crikey ! Nominated for Best title sequence / Theme song at the UK Music and Sound Awards
12th of November 2013
Picked up a Silver award at the Promax 2013 awards on Friday for ‘The Gumball Song’. Best Childrens Promo Clip
7th of August 2013
So it’s been a busy couple of months and certainly a varied one. Currently working on a track for Paul Smith and Sony. Also been recording some renaissance music on four recorders. If only they’d stay in tune 🙂
Also a Big Band piece for Gumball. I was knee deep in brass arrangement hell. The geek in me loved that though.
16th of June 2013
Just received the final mix back from Germany recorded by the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester. A 60 piece Orchestra conducted by Bernd Ruf.
15th of May 2013.
I have been working on a pilot series for Channel 4 recently. Well the music is all finished now and I can’t say too much but the show has come up really well I think . Here’s hoping it get greenlit…
23 April 2013
Received the final mix of some new orchestral music recorded in Berlin by the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt ( state owned orchestra of Berlin) and conducted by Bernd Ruf.
Thank you to all the musicians and everyone involved.
19th of April 2013
Music for latest Canon campaign all wrapped up. Also I’ve just finished writing some music for a pilot episode for a brand new series which is quite exciting and has been great fun to work on.
11th of April 2013
Music for Season 2 of The Amazing World of Gumball finished!
26th of March 2013
Music for full Orchestra being recorded today..fingers crossed.
12th of Feb 2013 Emmy Awards
The Amazing World of Gumball has up picked the Emmy Award for Best Animated TV Series for Kids TV in NYC over the weekend. Meanwhile I am two episodes away from completing the 2nd Season…almost there!
21st of Jan 2013 Recording all finished and mixed in Berlin
Just before Christmas I wrote some music which was recorded by a 66 piece orchestra, The “Brandenburgisches Staatsorcheste” the state owned Orchestra in Berlin. A big thanks to David Christiansen and all the musicians and engineers.
4th Dec 2012 BAFTA and Annies
http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/childrens/short-form
Been a while since Ive posted anything as I’m very busy with the 2nd season of Gumball but The Amazing World of Gumball has recently won the 2012 Children’s BAFTA best Animation and Writing . The show has also been nominated at the 40th Annie Awards over in LA for Best Animated TV Show and Best Director. Fingers crossed !
