I’m delighted to be joining the Rock Vixen Theatre Show — a full-scale live production led by Sharon Cannings and Martin Nicholls.

The show brings together some of the best female-fronted rock songs of the last fifty years, performed by…

On 28th February, Fakespeare opened…

…and I had one of my favourite musical experiences: sitting in the audience, quietly watching ideas that once lived only in notebooks and hard drives come alive in front of you.

A charming, talented…

Over in theatre-land, I’m delighted (and quietly relieved) to report that all the main musical themes for Fakespeare are now written — and, crucially, that writer/director Stuart Fortey likes them.

I’m now deep into arranging the material for period…

I’m currently composing the original score for Fakespeare, a new theatre production written and directed by Stuart Fortey.

The play switches between the 15th and 18th centuries, offering an exciting musical challenge that allows me to explore…

I was delighted to return to working with visual artist and director Naomi Parker this autumn, composing the original score for LightFall, a walkabout performance commissioned for Bradford’s BD:is LIT light festival.

Set around the Mirror Pool in…

I'm really looking forward to “Drinking St George's Hall” on 27th July (11-4pm).  It's an event at St George’s Hall celebrating Bradford’s live music heritage, from Rock and Roll to Bhangra and Bassline. This unique installation captures the…

Switching gears, I'm now working with Liberty Arts’ Louise Hodgson and Falling Stars’ Beccy Durham on "Let Me Tell You A Story”, a new festival for the over-60s, coming to Keighley on 7th-8th September 2024. It's…

Remember that mysterious Mikron show I mentioned two posts ago…? Well, the cat's out of the bag now, and I can reveal with much excitement that I've signed on as Composer-Songwriter for their 2024 show, ‘Common Ground’…

The…

I can’t wait to start writing new songs for Mikron Theatre Company in December, for their next production in Spring 2024.  It’s the second time I’ve collaborated with these gorgeous folk, having worked as Musical Director on their show A…

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…

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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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 -…

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…