A selection of pieces written for short films. Most of them comedy horrors…
THE MONSTER (2015): A comedy horror directed by Bob Pipe, starring Richard Glover
as a famous film monster who falls in love with Helen George. There are three pieces
here: a piece of background music from a party scene; the love theme; and the music
from the final scene, leading into the end titles. You can see the whole film here.
THE BABY’S CRYING (2016): Another comedy horror by Bob Pipe, this one’s much more
sinister - I was aiming for genuine full-on dread here, with creepy strings playing at
two different recording speeds. Full film available here.
HOW NOT TO MAKE A SHORT FILM (2013): Yes Bob Pipe, but not a comedy horror. This
tune started out as a pair of different improvisations which I extended and welded
together. Always been slightly frustrated with the result, but it has a nice wounded
fragility that I like and works well in the film, which you can see here.
THE BARON (2013): A comedy horror by Gareth Tunley with Tom Meeten in the title
role, as a deluded nutter who thinks he’s more terrifying than he really is. This was my
first stab at a horror soundtrack, so it has more of a ‘throw it all at the wall and see
what sticks’ approach. The autoharp you’ll occasionally here was Gareth’s idea (and
actually played by him). This is the full score, more or less. And here’s the film.
DANNY DYER’S REFLECTIVE HAIKUS (2013): a series of inserts directed by Gareth
Tunley for a live show by Tom Rosenthal - the title basically tells you all you need to
know. The stuff I did was basically just a series of stings, most of which I’ve strung here
together in a row. Imagine Danny Dyer reading reflective haikus punctuated by this
stuff and there you go. Oh actually no, you don’t have to, it’s here.
GODLESS (2017): a comedy horror directed by Fergus March, about an idea so
controversial that it drives most of the population of the world insane with fury. The
film lasts 12 minutes, but somehow I wrote more than half an hour of music for it -
most of it atonal looped atmospheres. I’ve put together a short suite of some of these,
plus an extended version of the end title theme, and another piece knitted together
from a tune I was trying to thread through the narrative. Film available to watch here.
2001 - 2023
Pilots, Shorts & One-offs
SHORT FILMS
TV PILOTS & SINGLE EPISODES
MONEYF**KER (from The Mainstage)
June 2 & 5, 2008
THE MAINSTAGE: Main Theme
April 25 - May 26, 2008
CHIPS AT A BUS STOP (from The Mainstage)
March 18 - April 25, 2008
THE BABY’S CRYING (from ‘The Baby’s Crying’)
August 28, 2016
LITTLE BOY LOST (from ‘How Not to Make a Short Film’)
February 18 & 20, 2011; August 5, 2013
HAIKU STINGS (from ‘Danny Dyer’s Reflective Haikus’)
May 27, 2013
MR & MRS FANDANGO: Main Theme
April 30, 2008
GOING ON: Main Theme
November 17, 2009 - January 12, 2010
BAG A DOG (from ‘Mr and Mrs Fandango’)
April 11-21, 2008
BIG SHANE - Western Theme (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6, 2015
TODAY WITH DODI & DI
June 2007
COUNTRY STOMP (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 16-20, 2016
FLASHBACK (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 17, 2016
EMMA’S OFFICE (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 17, 2016
KEITHY HAS A GO (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 20, 2016
LOOK AT ME: vocal demo (written for ‘The Wall’)
May 2008
BIG SHANE ON ‘WHAT THE FUN’ FM (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6-9, 2015
A WALK IN THE PARK (from ‘The Monster’)
June 18, 19 & 24, 2015
THE SHADOWS ARE MY FRIENDS (from ‘The Monster’)
June 16, 2015
MOURNFUL BEAST/END TITLES (from ‘The Monster’)
June 15-24, 2015
SCIENCE SUITE (from ‘Godless’)
February 3-11, 2017
THE BARON: Full Score (from ‘The Baron’)
January 28 - April 4, 2013
ENDLESS (from ‘Godless’)
February 8, 2017
A HIGHER PURPOSE - Seven Takes (from ‘Godless’)
February 3-11, 2017
DEHYDRATION (written for ‘Horrible Science’)
May 3 & 5, 2012
TICKET TO THE MOON: vocal demo (from ‘Mandy’)
June 22-25, 2021
ORIGEN’S WAKE: Main Theme
May - June, 2001
WHAT THE DANCE (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6, 2015
LA LA LAIKA (written for ‘Horrible Science’)
May 2 & 5, 2012
WASTE MAN (2016): a sitcom for Left Bank and Comedy Central, directed by Murder in
Successville’s James de Frond, with Tom Davis in the starring role. A series did actually
get commissioned but it clashed with Action Team and sadly never got made.
COUNTRY STOMP is the nearest thing it had to a theme tune. We all agreed KEITHY
HAS A GO was probably the best thing in it, but in the end it got cut for time.
DEAD AIR (2015): a Tiger Aspect show for BBC Three about rival breakfast DJs starring
real-life breakfast DJ Greg James - I got asked to come up with a bunch of different
radio idents for the various personalities in the cast. My favourites were all for a self-
consciously wacky Australian character called Big Shane on ‘What the Fun’ FM - my
wife Katy helped with the voice work - and then at the last minute, all his stuff got cut.
THE MAINSTAGE (2008): Channel X pilot for a fake music show full of fake bands, who
all sounded like me or director Gareth Tunley. Here’s the main theme, plus my other
two favourites from the show. They should probably come with an extreme language
warning but I’m sure you’ll cope. The original pilot’s available to see here.
GOING ON (2010): an arts show parody, again by Gareth Tunley - this is the main
theme but there are more tunes from the show here. Original pilot here.
MR & MRS FANDANGO (2008): an episode of Channel 4’s Comedy Lab made by
Barunka O’ Shaughnessy and Tom Meeten. That husky voice on ‘Bag a Dog’ is Tom’s.
TODAY WITH DODI & DI (2007): theme tune for another show made by Tom and
Barunka. Commissioned for E4, but thanks to its deeply controversial nature (a
daytime TV show presented by Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed), it got pulled from the
schedule as soon as the tabloids got wind of it.
HORRIBLE SCIENCE (2012): two songs I wrote as part of a pitch for a show based on
the Horrible Science book series. ‘Dehydration’ is based on a story in one of the books.
I threw ‘La La Laika’ together from stories about the famous dog. Sadly I wasn’t asked
to contribute to the eventual series so this is their first public airing.
LOOK AT ME (2008): one of several songs I wrote for Lucy Montgomery in the late
noughties, this one a pastiche of Mika for a BBC Three comedy variety show called The
Wall. This is my original demo, but the eventual performance featured a whole troupe
of dancers (including a massive dancing frog).
TICKET TO THE MOON (2021): I didn’t write this - it’s a medley of songs by ELO and Jeff
Wayne, originally put together for a Marti Caine special in the early 1980s, then
rearranged for Mandy by me. This is my original demo, but the all-singing, all-dancing
Diane Morgan version can be seen here.
ORIGEN’S WAKE (2001): my TV debut - another Comedy Lab, courtesy of Channel X,
which I wrote, directed and cast myself as the main part in. But these days I mainly
think of it as my first theme tune. You can see the whole animation here.
TV PILOTS & SINGLE EPISODES
SHORT FILMS
HEDGED (End Credits)
August 10-11, 2023
Pilots, Shorts
& One-offs
2001 - 2023
SHORT FILMS
A selection of pieces written for short films. Most of
them comedy horrors…
A WALK IN THE PARK (from ‘The Monster’)
June 18, 19 & 24, 2015
THE SHADOWS ARE MY FRIENDS (from ‘The Monster’)
June 16, 2015
MOURNFUL BEAST/END TITLES (from ‘The Monster’)
June 15-24, 2015
THE MONSTER (2015): A comedy horror directed by
Bob Pipe, starring Richard Glover as a famous film
monster who falls in love with Helen George. There
are three pieces here: a piece of background music
from a party scene; the love theme; and the music
from the final scene, leading into the end titles. You
can see the whole film here.
THE BABY’S CRYING (from ‘The Baby’s Crying’)
August 28, 2016
THE BABY’S CRYING (2016): Another comedy horror by
Bob Pipe, this one’s much more sinister - I was aiming
for genuine full-on dread here, with creepy strings
playing at two different recording speeds. Full film
available here.
LITTLE BOY LOST (from ‘How Not to Make a Short
Film’) February 18 & 20, 2011; August 5, 2013
HOW NOT TO MAKE A SHORT FILM (2013): Yes Bob
Pipe, but not a comedy horror. This tune started out
as a pair of different improvisations which I extended
and welded together. Always been slightly frustrated
with the result, but it has a nice wounded fragility that
I like and works well in the film, which you can see
here.
THE BARON: Full Score (from ‘The Baron’)
January 28 - April 4, 2013
THE BARON (2013): A comedy horror by Gareth Tunley
with Tom Meeten in the title role, as a deluded nutter
who thinks he’s more terrifying than he really is. This
was my first stab at a horror soundtrack, so it has
more of a ‘throw it all at the wall and see what sticks’
approach. The autoharp you’ll occasionally here was
Gareth’s idea (and actually played by him). This is the
full score, more or less. And here’s the film.
DANNY DYER’S REFLECTIVE HAIKUS (2013): a series of
inserts directed by Gareth Tunley for a live show by
Tom Rosenthal - the title basically tells you all you
need to know. The stuff I did was basically just a
series of stings, most of which I’ve strung here
together in a row. Imagine Danny Dyer reading
reflective haikus punctuated by this stuff and there
you go. Oh actually no, you don’t have to, it’s here.
HAIKU STINGS (from ‘Danny Dyer’s Reflective Haikus’)
May 27, 2013
SCIENCE SUITE (from ‘Godless’)
February 3-11, 2017
ENDLESS (from ‘Godless’)
February 8, 2017
A HIGHER PURPOSE - Seven Takes (from ‘Godless’)
February 3-11, 2017
GODLESS (2017): a comedy horror directed by Fergus
March, about an idea so controversial that it drives
most of the population of the world insane with fury.
The film lasts 12 minutes, but somehow I wrote more
than half an hour of music for it - most of it atonal
looped atmospheres. I’ve put together a short suite of
some of these, plus an extended version of the end
title theme, and another piece knitted together from
a tune I was trying to thread through the narrative.
Film available to watch here.
TV PILOTS & SINGLE EPISODES
ORIGEN’S WAKE (2001): my TV debut - another
Comedy Lab, courtesy of Channel X, which I wrote,
directed and cast myself as the main part in. But
these days I mainly think of it as my first theme tune.
You can see the whole animation here.
COUNTRY STOMP (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 16-20, 2016
FLASHBACK (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 17, 2016
EMMA’S OFFICE (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 17, 2016
KEITHY HAS A GO (from ‘Waste Man’)
May 20, 2016
WASTE MAN (2016): a sitcom for Left Bank and
Comedy Central, directed by Murder in Successville’s
James de Frond, with Tom Davis in the starring role. A
series did actually get commissioned but it clashed
with Action Team and sadly never got made.
COUNTRY STOMP is the nearest thing it had to a
theme tune. We all agreed KEITHY HAS A GO was
probably the best thing in it, but in the end it got cut
for time.
DEAD AIR (2015): a Tiger Aspect show for BBC Three
about rival breakfast DJs starring real-life breakfast DJ
Greg James - I got asked to come up with a bunch of
different radio idents for the various personalities in
the cast. My favourites were all for a self-consciously
wacky Australian character called Big Shane on ‘What
the Fun’ FM - my wife Katy helped with the voice work
- and then at the last minute, all his stuff got cut.
BIG SHANE - Western Theme (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6, 2015
BIG SHANE ON ‘WHAT THE FUN’ FM (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6-9, 2015
WHAT THE DANCE (from ‘Dead Air’)
February 6, 2015
MONEYF**KER (from The Mainstage)
June 2 & 5, 2008
THE MAINSTAGE: Main Theme
April 25 - May 26, 2008
CHIPS AT A BUS STOP (from The Mainstage)
March 18 - April 25, 2008
THE MAINSTAGE (2008): Channel X pilot for a fake
music show full of fake bands, who all sounded like
me or director Gareth Tunley. Here’s the main theme,
plus my other two favourites from the show. They
should probably come with an extreme language
warning but I’m sure you’ll cope. The original pilot’s
available to see here.
GOING ON: Main Theme
November 17, 2009 - January 12, 2010
GOING ON (2010): an arts show parody, again by
Gareth Tunley - this is the main theme but there are
more tunes from the show here. Original pilot here.
MR & MRS FANDANGO: Main Theme
April 30, 2008
BAG A DOG (from ‘Mr and Mrs Fandango’)
April 11-21, 2008
TODAY WITH DODI & DI
June 2007
MR & MRS FANDANGO (2008): an episode of Channel
4’s Comedy Lab made by Barunka O’ Shaughnessy
and Tom Meeten. That husky voice on ‘Bag a Dog’ is
Tom’s.
TODAY WITH DODI & DI (2007): theme tune for
another show made by Tom and Barunka.
Commissioned for E4, but thanks to its deeply
controversial nature (a daytime TV show presented by
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed), it got pulled from the
schedule as soon as the tabloids got wind of it.
DEHYDRATION (written for ‘Horrible Science’)
May 3 & 5, 2012
LA LA LAIKA (written for ‘Horrible Science’)
May 2 & 5, 2012
HORRIBLE SCIENCE (2012): two songs I wrote as part of
a pitch for a show based on the Horrible Science book
series. ‘Dehydration’ is based on a story in one of the
books. I threw ‘La La Laika’ together from stories about
the famous dog. Sadly I wasn’t asked to contribute to
the eventual series so this is their first public airing.
LOOK AT ME: vocal demo (written for ‘The Wall’)
May 2008
LOOK AT ME (2008): one of several songs I wrote for
Lucy Montgomery in the late noughties, this one a
pastiche of Mika for a BBC Three comedy variety
show called The Wall. This is my original demo, but
the eventual performance featured a whole troupe of
dancers (including a massive dancing frog).
TICKET TO THE MOON: vocal demo (from ‘Mandy’)
June 22-25, 2021
TICKET TO THE MOON (2021): I didn’t write this - it’s a
medley of songs by ELO and Jeff Wayne, originally put
together for a Marti Caine special in the early 1980s,
then rearranged for Mandy by me. This is my original
demo, but the all-singing, all-dancing Diane Morgan
version can be seen here.
ORIGEN’S WAKE: Main Theme
May - June, 2001
THE GHOUL
(ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
Available for streaming and download
exclusively on Bandcamp
HEDGED (End Credits)
August 10-11, 2023
