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Another Video for my ‘Old Hymns’ Project. Written & Recorded, Filmed and Edited by myself.  

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This is another of the tracks I wrote and recorded for Old Hymns, ‘BURN’. I also created and edited the video. I haven’t had much experience editing video’s but I feel like I ended up with a reasonably good result.

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Run Wild is a UK based clothing company created by Neil McCathie & Sarah Hutcheson. Everything is designed and created in-house. You can Check out the site below.

www.runwildclothing.co

And also, send us some love on Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/runwildclothing/

& Twitter

https://twitter.com/runwildclothing

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A teaser track that I wrote for my band ‘Old Hymns’ (currently defunct). However, I do plan to carry on with the project in the near future.

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Back in February 2015 I went on tour with my good friends in Landscapes. I was Front of House sound engineer for the tour where the band provided support for The Used (One of my childhood favourite bands).

The tour was awesome. I had the chance to do sound in some of my absolute favourite UK venues. Which included, Koko, Rock City and The Garage in Glasgow.

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One of my many lounge tracks used for licensing in the UK and around Europe.

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The World Tour Tee I designed for Bastille. Obviously i didn't create the album artwork on the front...I designed the back print.

Only available at shows I believe?

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This is the design I created for Bastille's current tour. The T-shirt has been a bestseller on the tour. The design was also used on Stickers, iPhone 4+5 cases and a couple of Lazer Cut Keyrings.

The design (pictured above) was inspired by the French Chronophotographer 'Étienne-Jules Marey'. Some consider him the forefather of Film. Bastille, as you may know draw a lot of inspiration from film. With the brief specifying the use of Birds, it seemed only natural to create a design that incorporated both Film and Birds. 

Check the range out on the Bastille Online Store:

http://shop.virginemi.com/bastille/*/Merchandise/

Or grab one from their current World Tour and Upcoming Festival Dates.

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A random video that i had to work on for The Weeknd’s Show at the O2 Arena.

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Station Sessions Festival 2013 4th April- 9th May

For six weeks straight, i worked at the Station Sessions Festival. Operating the Live Stream direct to YouTube. Doing the social media promotion on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Website and by writing the weekly Station Sessions Newsletter. Also standing in as the event's organiser for a couple of dates.

I got the chance to work with some really great upcoming artists and bands. Some of my favourites being: AlascA, Balthazar, The Gorgeous George, Kodaline, Lauren Aquilina, Josh Kumra, Yori SwSwart, Soweto Kinch, Strangers, Mise En Scene and Lewis Watson.

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A month or two ago Scythes went to record an E.P at the cro's nest studio in croydon. It was certainly a different studio experience to what i'm previously used to. it wasn't a bad experience just different. The studio itself was basically one room with a drum kit and mixing console set up inside with an isolation booth for guitar amps and vocals.

The room itself was quite cluttered, with scribblings from previous bands all over the walls. The setting really suited Scythes down to the ground. It had a real raw  and punk ethic.

Tracks were performed without metronomes in some occasions and very little editing was applied to the performance. All in all it should be a real raw sounding recording.

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During my last few days at the Academy of Contemporary Music. I was required to submit a creative portfolio of tracks i had written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered. Each of the tracks had to be in a different genre. I also had to design and make the CD booklet which had to include write ups for each track.

The above photo being the final product of that. I will try to upload the creative portfolio cd to the discography section of my account. 

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A Logo i designed for the company i'd like to start in the near future. It will most likely start out as a music based blog (of some description) but im hoping it'll eventually move into music production/ touring and maybe even an independent record label of some sort. Fingers Crossed.

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Last night I was coerced into taking care of the front of house duties for The Cold Harbour's album release show at 12 bar in swindon. Initially i was not too keen on the idea but It went on to become some really good fun. I spent a large portion of the night adding a whole heap of reverb to snares and vocals in a spectacularly vulgar way but as the band of the night walked on stage i took it a little more seriously, adding far subtler amounts when the sections got a little lighter in dynamic and called for it... basically reacting effectively to the variety of musical changes encountered throughout their set.

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A couple of months ago I was given the opportunity to assist Romesh Dodangoda on the drum recording sessions for the upcoming Funeral For a Friend album (to be released in 2013). The sessions were at Distillery Studios in Bath which is an Incredible purpose built recording facility, with so many awesome pieces of outboard gear and equipment.

It was a huge deal to me for a couple of reasons 1. It was my first real studio assistant opportunity 2. I got to work with Romesh!! 3. FFAF were one of the bands that got me into music in a big way.

The level of professionalism during the sessions was amazing to watch. A total game changer for me and something I'll take note of and apply to any and all future recording sessions. I would love to someday go back and work with everyone involved, if at all possible.