November 6th

It's been pretty blog free here for a few weeks. I have been up to my eyes.
Firstly with a week long attempt at placating the creatives and clients for a very well known games console.

Can I create a sixties style track, featuring brass? Yes.
It's great but there are a few changes. I do them.

Fantastic, only they've come up with a different idea.

This goes on all week, and I end up sending them about 6 pieces. All are 'Great' and 'fantastic', but none of them are used.

This is followed by an advert for a well known cosmetic cream. They had re written the words for a song from a very well known musical. Could I recreate this track, but change it so it wont infringe any copyright issues. Errr... well yes.

I spend a day making it sound as much like the original as possible.
I send them the finished version, but tell them that they've used a direct lift from the original, the title in fact, and we'd never get away with it. This, of course, makes them seriously reconsider the idea and I manage to talk myself out of a gig.

A few months ago, whist driving to Birmingham, an idea slipped from the 'fantasy' section of my brain and entered into the 'entirely possible' department. I became quite exited about the idea, until it inevitably slipped back into fantasy land.

What on earth was I thinking.

Anyway following this week of commercial requested dead ends, I was inspired to ask the question again.

So I wrote an e-mail and held my breath. One week later and I had composed an apologetic reply, so convinced was I by the inevitable rejection. Indeed, what the hell was I thinking! Much to my amazement the negative reply never arrived.

Quite the opposite in fact. This is genuinely a thrilling prospect. You never really know the answer, if you never ask the question.

Meanwhile I've been composing the music for a film for a charity event/film.

I have also been asked to compose the music for an event in Qatar. This is on a 180 degree screen to be mixed in surround. As ever it's a big project that is way behind. I have 1o working days to complete something that I'd rather have at least twice the time to complete.

As if this wasn't enough I'm also composing and recording the music to a new TV series with my old pal Danny. Danny leaves the country in a few days.

So, all in all, it's been late nights, every night and I'm exhausted.

Copies of the CD eventually arrived and are now for sale via Burning Shed. The official release date is February next year, but we'll concentrate on the web for the meantime.