Freelance sound engineer

My freelance engineering rate is £26.00 per hour (between 8am and 8pm)or part theoreof (No VAT to add). I have mixed 500 independently produced BBC radio progammes in the last 8 years as Head of engineering at the largest and most prolific radio production company in the UK. In addition I have recorded 100's of music sessions for broadcast and other purposes.

Why not take a 5 min break and listen to one of the music sessions I have recorded, the links are at the bottom of this page.

Experience selection :

Radio session recording selections :

Lemar (HIT40UK), Craig David and Kano (HIT40UK), The Rumblestrips (HIT40UK), The Coral (HIT40UK), The Hoosiers (HIT40UK), Chick Corea (BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3), Errors (British Council Selecta) Avishai Cohen (BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3), Incognito (BBC Radio 2 Soul Solutions),June Tabor (BBC Radio 2), Still Remains, (BBC Radio 1 Rock Show), Terry Callier (BBC R1 Gilles Peterson WorldWide), Amp Fiddler, Billy Cobham , Wolfgang Muthspiel ,Luisito Quintero ,Raul Midon, Bela Fleck, Lamb (British Council), John Hollenbeck , Roachford , Jimi Tenor (BBC R1 WW/BC), Ride in 2001 Lamb, Turin Brakes, Tim Garland, Reid Anderson, Martha Tilsdon (single release), The Pippettes, Keith Tippett, Steve Spacek, Soweto Kinch / Jason Yarde, June Tabor,Anthony Hamilton, Farmyard Animals Trio, Jade Fox, Cass Fox, Martha Redbone, Goapele, Lucky Soul, Billy Cobham, Metronomy, Kate Stables, Yungun and Fingers, Amp Fiddler, Get Cape. Wear Cape.Fly, Raul Midon (Guitar session), Incognito, Kate Nash, The Rumblestrips, Half Cousin, Holymoonmusicorchestra, Lau, Battle, John Hollenbeck, Theo Bleckmann, Jamie Scott, Flipron, Bosco D’olivera, Terry Callier, Eugene Mcguiness, MUM (Icelandic band), Ola Obunlade, Luisito Quintero, Roberto Quintero, David Coulter (pogues producer), Freerunner, Rahsaan Patterson, Nancy Elizabeth,Marva King (Prince BV) Nate James, Kevin Michael, Buen Chico,The Heavy, The Oscillation, The Winterkids, Kids in Glass Houses,The Duke Spirit, Eric Roberson, MC Skepta, Thomas Williams and the Boat and many others.

Recent live gig recordings :Carl Craig, Mulatu Astatke, Tony Allen and the Hypnotic brass ensemble, Bara Somme systema, Off the Wall (Pink Floyd tribute band), Heliocentrics Joe Bataan/James Pants, and many 2 track stereo recordings.

BBC Radio 1 documentaries mixed :

India Rocks
Oasis Story
The Diceman does Europe
To the Extremo
Hail the Thief - Nigel Godrich doc
Tsunami - 12 months on
Montreal or Nothing
Da Ville - Gun Crime in Nottingham
Green Day: UK
Brothers Gonna Work It Out - political hip hop
Boo to the M to the C
Access All Ages
Beyond the Pale
Dancehall to the Dancefloor
The Newstep

BBC Radio 2 documentaries mixed:

Jackson 5
Alexis Korner
Pogue Mahone
Prince - Purple Reign (2 parter)
Island Rock - 8 part series (Jamaica)
Freedom Sounds - 6 part series (south africa)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young (4 parts)
Robert Wyatt
Saturday Night fever
Studio 54
Soul Train
James Brown - live at the Apollo
Aretha Franklin
Island Rock series
Rocks Back Pages (6 episode series)
Swinging with Harry Connick Jnr (6 episode series)
Alan Freed documentary

Radio 4 programmes :

Substance: A history of synthetic materials (5 x 15mins)
Welcome to Stalinworld 30mins
Marching all together 30mins
Ketubah 1 hour
Liquid Living (Radio 4 style mix for BBC R3)
Gardeners Question Time
Feedback (R4)

Speech recordings and radio series mixing selections :

BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3 (4 years script recordings, interviews, ISDN and weekly mixes), BBC Radio 2 Funk Factory, BBC Radio 2 Soul Solutions, BBC Radio 2 Charles Hazlewood OB's and mixes (series 1 and 2). HIT40UK winning radio pilot mix, DJ Spoony meets... (BBC World Service), Over to You (BBC World Service), BBC R3 (Jazzfiles),R4 + World Service (Aids awareness), BBC 1Xtra and Asian Network. Over to you, BBC World Service, Ketubah documentary for BBC R4.Around the World in 8 relays series BBC W.S., Mapping Pollution series BBC W.S.

Radio session recording selections :

Outside broadcasts engineered for International radio
as chief engineer :

Mastercard Brits 2005/2006/2007
MOBO's 2004/05
Concert for Diana 2007
FCUK FM (studio design, engineering and maintenance, broadcasting on SKY TV)

Links record/mix for Nelson Mandela Concert for BBC W.S.

Local band recording, multitracked, mixed and mastered :

The Machines
Torque Armada

Recent music recordings can be heard by clicking
these links :

Special thanks to Gilles Peterson and his production team for giving me the opportunity to record one of my musical idols, Terry Callier.