//Musician and Composer
The latest Channel Four Dispatches episode was scored by Chris. It’s now up on 4OD here.
Dispatches: Murder in Tenerife follows Jennifer’s two daughters in their quest for answers, both in the UK and Tenerife, where the judge in the trial allowed Dispatches cameras into court.
There’s now new HD version of Milk Teeth online which you can watch below. Directed by Tibor Banoczki, Milk Teeth won amongst other awards, a Special Jury Prize at Annecy. To watch in real HD you need to visit the Vimeo page as they don’t allow HD embeds.
Just thought I’d share the dates for future screenings of Nancy, Please in case you’re near and want to see it.
In Chicago at Facets Multi-Media – April 5th to the 11th.
In Brooklyn at reRun Theatre - April 24th to the 30th.
in Florida at the Florida Film Festival – April 7th and the 11th.
Ahead of it’s American theatrical release, a new trailer for Nancy Please has been released into the wild. See it here:
The Year The Town Hall Shrank has been nominated for an RTS Award in the Best Documentary Series category.
The three part landmark documentary series tells the story of how one city – Stoke on Trent – struggles to cope with the impact of the largest funding cuts to local government ever imposed by central government.
This year’s RTS programme awards will be hosted by comedian, writer and actress Jo Brand at a ceremony tonight at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
What’s been said about The Year the Town Hall Shrank:
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The second episode of Brain Hospital: Saving Lives will be aired on Tuesday the 5th at 10pm on Channel 5. Brain Hospital is a documentary series that follows patients at the Walton Centre in Liverpool as they undergo brain surgery.
My Brother the Murderer is to be broadcast again on More4 in the UK on Monday the 4th Feb at 10pm.
Finally I have a chance to introduce the new album from Shadyzane, composed, recorded, produced by me, and mastered by Taylor Deupree. The album is called Ütonga. This title comes from Maori, meaning to harden, harm or badly affect – perhaps this is a reference to my New Zealand origins. Perhaps. Released on Matter Records, you can stream it here.
If you wish, you can purchase digital downloads in all the normal places, including iTunes, but possibly Bandcamp is the best place to buy.
The album features a few of my usual collaborators - Alistair White on trombone, Hutch Demouilpied on bass recorder(!), Wayne Nunes on bass and Chris Hutchings on drums.
If you’re a member of Mixcloud, I’m releasing mixes of excerpts from various scores I’ve composed over the last few years as ‘cloudcasts’. So feel free to follow me on Mixcloud.
Some news of an upcoming series that I composed the score for. Directed by James Newton and Dave Nath, The Year the Town Hall Shrank is a three part landmark documentary series that tells the story of how one city – Stoke on Trent – struggles to cope with the impact of the largest funding cuts to local government ever imposed by central government. The first episode will be transmitted on the 1st November, 9pm, BBC4. [Radio Times link]
Great news for LES CONQUÉRANTS – announced today, it has been shortlisted for a 2013 CÉSAR best animation award.
10 short French and European animated films have been preselected to compete for the César for the best animated film. The César Awards is the French equivalent of the Academy Awards. Each year the French Academy of the Cinema Arts and Techniques preselects 10 short animated films to compete for the César awards.
Van Morrison’s latest album has been released into the world. Born to Sing: No Plan B was a great album to be involved with and the recording process with Van was like no other I’ve ever done before.
* update: Born to Sing has debuted at number 10 in the US Album Charts (link).
Directed by Sophie Jones, My Brother the Murderer was recently broadcast on the UK’s Channel Four (link) as part of the channel’s First Cut series. Working with Sophie and editor Fergal McGrath, I composed the music for this tale of long-lost siblings.
We Need to Talk About Dad has been nominated for the 2012 British Academy Television Awards. Click here for the list of nominees.
Happily, I will be attending the 2012 Tribeca Festival for the premiere of Nancy, Please, for which I composed the music. Nancy‘s debut is this Saturday night. Here are some press reviews so far:
You can also keep up to date with the film through its Facebook page.
Maybe see you in NY?
From Domestic Infelicity (@D_Infelicity), with some music from me, a new teaser for a brilliant feature project in the works – an animated adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle, a work still applicable to the world even today.
The poster for À Mi-chemin has just been sent to me. Ici il est!
