New York Pt 2: Wo’Pop with Darek Mazzone and Sam Lee

Click here to hear the session. Trudging up to an unmarked back entrance of a nameless building in central Manhattan, myself and the rest of the band were ushered up service lifts, through winding corridors to our studio, The Cutting Room. The first thing you notice about The Cutting Room is a lack of walls. Where

New York Pt 1: globalFEST 2015 with Sam Lee

Not many people know that I grew up in the United States, largely because not many people ask. If they did, I’d tell them about a picturesque corner of Maryland, all lemonade stands, brunches, yard sales and little league baseball, sort of Desperate Housewives without the deep frustration, violence and barely concealed sexual mischief. At least as far

Holdalls Update: Sell-Out Run at the Lowry

The Holdalls’ Christmas Adventure (a children’s show I composed and MD’d, previously here) has come to a close after a sell-out run at the gorgeous Lowry theatre up in Manchester. Huge thanks go out to Director Javan Hughes, tireless producer Sam Worboys, everyone at Greenwich Theatre and The Lowry, and the extremely talented cast of

First Look at Tantalus, a new ballet by Three Satyrs

I love dancers. I love the bravery of performing without an instrument to lean on or hide behind, without words to explain what you’re doing or how the audience should feel about it, stepping out as a body in a room full of bodies and making the case that all the other bodies should shut

Daphnis Rising

I’d like to write a little about my new immersive one-hander adventure story, Daphnis Rising. Daphnis is a shepherd boy And all the world he’s ever seen Is seven lush and grassy hills And seven vales between Daphnis isn’t boring per se, just very sheltered. His brother Pan, very much awake to the wilder pleasures

Playing with Nine Lives Yoga at the British Yoga Festival

This past weekend I was at the British Yoga Festival accompanying an acroyoga performance by Nine Lives Yoga. I played the Mongolian yoochin, a hammer dulcimer, alongside Anne Malone on hang. Accompanying movement is about as fun as musical performance gets. I’m always on the look out for opportunities to write and play for dance, physical theatre and circus,

The Holdalls’ Christmas Adventure!

A mysterious force has stolen all the world’s Christmas presents and now it’s up to Teddy to save them. To do this he must befriend a fearsome pirate, recover the Christmas fairy’s wand and track down a terrifying snow monster. Over the last month I’ve been writing, recording and teaching the music for Gomito’s latest show, which

Karahi

Karahi is a suite for twelve violins (a duodectet, as google informs me) and three voices written for Flora Curzon, who is awesome both generally and in terms of her violin skills. It contains texts from Ming Holden and an anonymous 13th Century Japanese poet, translated by Robert Bower and Earl Miner. I was listening

Latin House!

This is a piece of Latin house music I wrote with a massive grin on my face.

Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Globe

After last year’s sell out success, I was thrilled to be able to join Deafinitely Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London once more to provide music for their latest show. It was a huge amount of silly fun, and I was even honoured with the role of wall, for which I donned a tailored