profilo

profilo personale

Brought up in a Musical and film based family( my Dad played Clarinet with the likes of Chris Barber and Acker Bilk, His Grandfather and both my great uncles were all make up artists in the Golden Age of British Film ) Oddly, I wrote my first song at 19, and after disappearing into a management career, reappeared to write my second one in my 40's . Since then, I've been offered scores of Single song contracts and had several dozen songs on hold with Music Supervisors around the world. Born in West London I have collaborated with breaking artists such as Norma Jean Martine (BMG/Chrysalis), Dillon DIxon ( High South- Decca/Universal), and Veronika Vesper (Volcanique) whose album is due for release this Autumn, as well as Emmy award winning writer Suzanne Edwards, American new songwriter of the year Debbie Pascarella, Hit writer Lorna Flowers and hit producers Kevin Malpass and Jon DIxon , to name but a few. I have recently had one of my songs i chosen by NSAI to be included in their top 40 songs of 2013 . I've written promo songs for best selling authors Jennifer Lorent and Sarah Pepper .as well as a string of holds with Film , Theatre and TV in Hollywood and London. I'm a regular visitor to LA and Nashville where I write with Swedish Producer Tero Portillo and Decca's Dillon Dixon from the band High South. Carrying on the Scandinavian connection, I write with no1 Swdish Singer Songwriter Simon Erics ( Warner) , Finnish production Genius' Joonas Naskali, Sami Arola and Danish TV producer Mark Stangerup. I also collaborate regularly with Steve "Smiley" Barnard (Archive, The Alarm, Robbie Williams, Joe Strummer) , whom he wrote "End of The world" which is to be featured on the TV Show, "Tin Pan Alley" and a winning finalist, and has a glittering array of other testimonials from Grammy and Emmy award winners such as Debi Cochran, Alan Roy Scott, Dr Richard Niles and Ralph Murphy. Talking of Awards, I have also recently written on 2016 Mercury Prize nominated Album "Shakespear vs Spotify" with The Pocket Gods and Friends.

profilo azienda

The Music Aviary was formed in 2012 as a way of bringing together Songwriting collaborations but has evolved into a bespoke Writing hub for projects such as albums, Film and TV. Currently working on a Business Model to expand the Music Aviary and finishing off an 3rd Studio Album with Smiley featuring a host of well known British Musicians, Including Dale Davis, Richard Archer, Mike Peters, john James Newman, Kerry Schultz, Dorie Jackson, amongst others.