We are off into Classic FM tomorrow to discuss working on guitarist Craig Ogden’s new album amongst other things. His last album for Classic FM did really well, and well worth a listen if you haven’t heard it yet. Not only is he a great bloke, but I also duetted with him on my Venezia album, so it would be lovely to work with him again. More »
Home at last. New Zealand is a wonderful country, fantastic wine needless to say but the most amazing scenery to boot. So, you can drink great wine with a wonderful view. Paradise. Not going to mention the flight home, I’m trying to pretend it never happened.
Along with every other (disorganised) self-employed person, I am currently in a very dark place I call,
Tax Hell.
No amount of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and pretty vista can reach me here. The wine would provide some More »
Alfie Boe’s album, Bring Him Home is finished. All mastered and off being manufactured ready for December 27th. We’ re really pleased with it and I hope Alfie is too – he sounds fantastic and was simply lovely to work with. Now it’s fingers crossed with the fickle record-buying public. Lets hope X Factor doesn’t take all music sales in the next month… More »
I'm a laydee!
Well I’m back from spending 24 hours in Prague holed up in a studio. Or maybe I wasn’t in Prague at all. Maybe Alfie and James were involved in a complex prank and I’ve actually spent 24 hours in a studio in Bognor. Whatever, Alfie was true to form, sang fantastically well and we have now recorded all of his album. James is back in Copenhagen finishing mixing tracks to send over to me for my input from our studio in London – thank goodness for modern technology. It’s mastering on Friday so we’re nearly there. James is staying out in Copenhagen for a big televised Christmas show that he’s conducting. More »
Just heard the producer has got the money in to do the orchestral sessions for the film. Of course they now want the music recorded tomorrow but it takes time to book studios, a symphony orchestra etc etc. We’ll do our very best. We’ve got Alfie Boe in the studio on Thursday to see whether the big wigs prefer his vocal to Julian’s.
James and I also clean forgot about the track we did on the new Gracie Field’s album with Jane Horrocks. Apparently it entered the album charts at 31 a couple of More »
I’m glad to report that Thursday went well with all the big wigs from the film. We didn’t get all the music we’d worked on approved but the vast majority was passed so it’s been well worth all the hard work.
They’ve decided now they have heard all the ‘real’ opera voices dubbed over the actors, that they might want to dub Julian Ovenden as well. He did a great job and is a very good singer but he might not sound like an opera singer next to Sally Matthews in the duet from Cosi.
I’m very impressed he was so convincing. We’ve asked our old friend, Alfie Boe, to have a go at being his voice which we hope will be a good match if they do feel all the actors should be dubbed. He is in rehearsal at ENO at the moment so hopefully he will be More »
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