Dan McGlade

On Saturday 16th September, at the truly rock and roll time of 11:00AM, I'm playing my first gig with a full band, at the iconic Saltaire Festival Bandstand Stage. 

Expect a full throated performance…as my erstwhile companions, The…

I'm really happy to be playing at the 2023 Chapel FM Musicathon…at 7:30am!

40 different artists. 24 hours. This musical marathon celebrates the sound of Leeds in 1 epic event. Head on down to Seacroft to hear performances from all…

I'm humbled (there, I said it) and excited to start rehearsing next month as Musical Director for Mikron's production of A Force To Be Reckoned With.

I've followed Mikron for years, visiting shows with my daughter, and was always blown…

It was fantastic to meet up again with the magnificent Laura Adams recently at Mind The Gap Studios, for the EP photoshoot. 

Laura did my first shoot at Hyde Park Picture House in 2020 (see Gallery), and since then…

Really looking forward to my next collaboration with Leeds Conservatoire - this time working with multi-award winning storyteller, director, performer & writer Debs Newbold, as she directs Chris Hannan’s Crime & Punishment - an exciting, fresh and accessible…

Around the time I was composing for Twelfth Night & Macbeth at Leeds Playhouse, Leeds theatre company Wrongsemble kindly invited me to engineer the recorded music for their forthcoming Christmas show, A Town Called Christmas.  What could I say…

Fresh from performing three lovely shows at Saltaire Festival last month, Siân and I are looking forward to returning to Rotherham, where we have been invited to present our theatrical storytelling of Owl Babies at Rotherham Civic Theatre! The…

...seriously, if I had longer I'd have come up with a better title, but I was in rehearsals and wrote it in about three minutes so there you go. 

I'm beyond excited to be working as Composer, Sound Designer and…

Siân (my fantastic collaborator) and I are really chuffed to be performing Owl Babies at Saltaire Festival! 

We’re performing three times during the day on Sunday 11th September in Roberts Park.  Exact times and location to be confirmed…

I'm indebted to writer/directors Elvi Piper (Wrongsemble) and Dan Mallaghan (154 Collective) and Arts Council England, for helping me smash though my near ten-year creative roadblock, and start writing the script for Darcy Filthound in earnest.  

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After the inevitable delays and breaks caused by Covid, weather, families and isolated outbreaks of procrastination, it's been great to Get Back (see what I did there?  Sorry) into Trapdoor Studios this month, to begin the final push towards finishing…

On Tuesday 31st May, Siân and I are presenting our story performance of Owl Babies at Grimm’s Gathering, a pop-up festival celebrating stories of all shapes, featuring masterclasses and workshops with leading musicians, authors and artists, over the Old Town…

Owl Babies is going on a tour…of Bradford Libraries! 

Throughout Easter, Sian Williams and I will be presenting a magical, playful story performance, for free, at libraries throughout the Bradford District. 

Watch baby owls, woodland creatures and a grumpy magpie…

I'm beyond happy to be working as Musical Director for 509Arts' first touring production of Meal One.

Based on the wonderfully absurd children's book written by Ivor Cutler in 1971, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, it tells the story…

Hot on the heels of the great DYCP news comes the news that the achingly wonderful Wrongsemble have commissioned me to write the music for two new projects, AND musically direct a third.

It's going to be a busy summer...

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My application for the Arts Council’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant has been successful.  DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.  I'm a bit blown away -…

The perpetually delightful Wrongsemble theatre company (in partnership with Bradford Literature Festival) have kindly invited me back to write the music for their latest project, Aladdin and the Stolen Stories. 

And it's completely free! 

It'll be launched on…

Several months ago, Bradford Council opened applications to its Make: Film fund, looking for creative short films, made by contemporary storytellers based in Bradford district. 

Film-maker Jax Griffin, animator Lou Sumray and I submitted an application to fund a film…

The Ivors Academy is the home of all songwriters and composers. For over 70 years they've represented music creators in the UK, and bestowed the biggest honours in the industry to giants of modern composition and songwriting. 

So I'm pinching…

I’m so happy to be writing the theme music for Wrongsemble’s new production, HUMBUG. 

HUMBUG is a set of short online films, set at Christmas, that create a narrative which families can watch from home.  The script is…

Look at this bad boy.  My latest studio kit is probably also the oldest.

What, oh what, is he thinking?!, I hear you scream. 

Well, while super clear, high quality monitoring is essential, some of the best sound engineers keep…

Today I'm embarrassingly over-excited to introduce my new studio speakers, or Near-Field Monitors, if I'm going to report this properly.

After an all too typical flurry of obsessive research, I decided upon a pair of Yamaha HS5s.  I chose…

It’s great to be working with Year Six pupils at St Columba’s and St Joseph’s Catholic Primary Schools, Bradford, on their School Leaver’s Songs. 

Local Drama Teacher and Writer Sian Willams and I have been meeting with small Year Six…

I'm excited and weirdly nervous to announce my first ever streaming gig, at the VHepFest Online Festival on Saturday 4th July.

VHepFest is an online version of the excellent Heptonstall Festival, which in less treacherous times was/will be held…