News
11th November 2021
Mixing New Tala Vala record for release in mid 2022
02 September 2021
Finishing off a directors cut commercial for Partizan and SKY . Directed by Pete Candeland
02 August 2021
Strings session in Budapest !
24th November 2020
Tala Vala will be releasing the new record in Feb 2021. via Forte Distribution and a special DINKED release
23rd September 2020
Final, overdubs at Air Edel Studios in London today for a Disney + title sequence.
2nd September 2020
Recording drums today for a new documentary on Disney +
27th AUGUST 2020
Choir recording in Bulgaria today for a new pilot series on HULU
30th May 2020
Ep completed for TramWorks label ..release date TBC
1st April 2020
Tala Vala masters have returned from Electric mastering. Pressing and release is on hold due to Covid-19.
15th March 2020
Ive started writing for an Ep for the Village Green/Tramworks label with this thing !
31st January 2020
Mix for the new Tala Vala record begins at Masterchord Studios
December 17 2019
Recording the Tippett Quartet today at Angel Studios at one their last sessions. Sadly Angel Studios will be closing it doors at Christmas for the last time.
9th July 2019
EP written, recorded, mixed and ready for release for Tramworks label. Release date TBC
15th March 2019
Love Death and Robots is released today on Netflix. I worked on Zima Blue directed by Rob Valley
20th February 2019
Work begins on a new film due for release later this year.
23rd January 2019
John and I have just done a radio interview down at Soho Radio discussing the new Tala Vala album
https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/morning-glory-23012019/
17 January 2019
Tala Vala’s new album Sarha is released …available now on iTunes and Spotify and on a limited 1st pressing Lp at …
https://www.strangerthanparadiserecords.com/tala-vala-tala-vala.html
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tala-Vala
21 December 2018
recording drums at Sing Sing in Melbourne…great studio if your’e down that way
01 September 2018
Finished Season 6 of Gumball. 240 Episodes and some 300 cues later. End of an era !
15th June 2018
Just signed on for a new Netflix short film…
21st May 2018
The Tala Vala album is finished and getting mastered!
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8th May 2018
My Revolting Rhymes score is now available via iTunes and Spotify
30th April 2018
Back to Angel studios today for some string and brass overdubs for Tala Vala’s album.
12th February 2018
Revolting Rhymes performed live in London at the Royal Festival Hall with the Southbank Sinfonia. Final Rehearsals !
26th January
Revolting Rhymes has been nominated for an Oscar for Best short !
http://oscar.go.com/nominees/short-film-animated
January 10th 2018
Revolting Rhymes will be screening at the Royal Festival Hall in London and performed by the Southbank Sinfonia.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/125040-revolting-rhymes-2018
December 15th 2017
Recording at British Grove Studios for a new short film produced by Passion Pictures
Novemeber 26th 2017
Revolting Rhymes wins a BAFTA !
October 25th 2017
Revolting Rhymes and The Amazing World of Gumball have been nominated for a BAFTA ..
http://www.bafta.org/children/awards/childrens-awards-nominations-2017#animation
October 10th 2017
Won ‘Best Original Score’ at the Sapporo Japanese Short Film Festival for my score on Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes
August 4th 2017
Setup begins for a big band session at Angel Studios London
28th July
Mixing today at Air Studios London for the upcoming score release of Revolting Rhymes.
May 6th 2017
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 !
