Adrian’s film-music career started with George Fenton in 1990, with production work on the BBC wildlife series, The Trials of Life and feature-film, The Fisher King. He continued with films as diverse as Land and Freedom, The Madness of King George and August in which he worked to realise Anthony Hopkin’s own score. In 1996 he started working as a composer in his own right. He has composed the music for several BFI/BBC films including Speak like a child for John Akomfrah and The Stringer for Pol Pavlovski.
Adrian composed the music for several C4 documentaries, several of which have won awards including David Starkey’s Henry VIII, Stalkers and Prostitution for John Akomfrah. In 1993 and 1998-99 he played keyboards and guitar on tour with Mike Oldfield, and has been his musical director for the past 6 years. He has also worked with Fat Boy Slim, Japan and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
In 2002 Adrian wrote the music for several series for Bravo and the score for the feature film, Laguna which was recorded in Budapest.
In 2003 he started collaborating with Guy Farley. He co-wote and co-produced the scores for the TV film:-Mother Theresa starring Olivia Hussey and Modigliani starring Andy Garcia. In 2005 they produced the scores for Irish Jam, a romantic comedy starring Anna Friel, Land of the Blind starring Donald Sutherland and Ralph Fiennes, as well as Cashback for Sean Ellis . They scored the music for The Flock starring Richard Gere and also worked on the a Portugues film, Dot.Com for Luis Galves Teles.
In the last year they have scored the music for Carling, Tetley and Oxfam commercials. This year they will be scoring the animated Documentary March of the Dinosaurs and Phillipe Martinez’s Tribes of October.
Credits
DOCUMENTARIES
Mob Week
(Class Films, 2006)
A Crowning Achievement
(MSP Productions, 2005)
The Band-Aid Story
(Class Films, 2004)
Director: Ninder Billing
Secret Admirer
(Wall to Wall TV, 2003)
Director: Donna Clark
Travel Sick, Series 2
(Class Films, 2003)
Director: Mike Gooding
Sin Cities, Series 3
(Class Films, 2003)
Director: Mike Gooding
Sin Cities, Series 2
(Visual Voodoo, 2002)
Director: Donna Clark
Travel Sick, Series 1
(Visual Voodoo, 2001)
Director: Donna Clark
Sin Cities, Series 1
(Visual Voodoo, 2001)
Director: Donna Clark
Opening Titles, from Sin Cities
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Prostitution
(Blast Films, 2001)
Director: John Akomfrah
Death in the Family
(Smoking Dogs Films, 2000)
Director: John Akomfrah
Stalkers
(Blast Films, 2000)
Director: John Akomfrah
Confession
(Blast Films, 2000)
Director: Edmund Coulthard
David Startkey’s Henry VIII
(Convergence, 1998)
Director: Robert Thomas
Getting away with Murder
(Force 10, 1996)
Director: Donna Clark
SHORT FILMS
Roar
(2009)
Director:Adam Wimpenny
The Bottle
(Various Films, 2002)
Director: Gary Wicks
Ice Cool Reception
(Dare Devil, 2001)
Director: Robert Heath
The Telescope
(Pepper Pictures, 1995)
Director: Dan Gane
FEATURE FILMS
The Flirting Club
(2009)
Director: Alex Jovey, James Bedford
I Know You Know
(Parallax, 2008)
Director: Justin Kerrigan
The Broken
(Ugly Duckling Films, 2007)
Director: Sean Ellis
Dot.Com
(Ipso Facto Films, 2006)
Director: Luis Galves Teles
The Flock
(Bauer Martinez, 2006)
Director: Andrew Lau
Opening Titles, from The Flock
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Cashback
(Lene Bausager, 2005)
Director: Sean Ellis
Land of the Blind
(Bauer Martinez, 2005)
Director: Robert Edwards
Irish Jam
(Bauer Martinez, 2005)
Director: John Eyres
Modigliani
(Lucky 7 Productions, 2004)
Director: Mick Davis
Mother Theresa
(Lux Vide, 2003)
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Laguna
(Lucky 7 Productions, 2002)
Director: Dennis Barry
Seduction, from Laguna
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Endgame
(Various Films, 2001)
Director: Gary Wicks
Wales, from Endgame
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The Stringer
(BFI/BBC, 1998)
Director: Pol Pavlikovski
Speak like a Child
(BFI/BBC, 1998)
Director: John Akomfrah