Filmmaker, Musician/Composer and Linguist (in no particular order). Some people have also been kind enough to call me a Raconteur (which I love as it comes from the French, my favourite language). Others have a much shorter word for me, but I hope there are a few more of the former.
I write, direct, score & edit (see Dark Star Productions below), only operating the camera and lights if there is no-one more talented available. The most recent music video I directed was for Justin and the lads in Rockit with a bevy of international beauties (not that they aren't great looking blokes, mind you!)
Bag Lady music video for Rockit
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Here is a music video I directed and edited last year for SIMON BAILEY, shot in an old church in Hampstead. Cinemtaography and post-production by the extrordinarily talented Mike Connolly of Electric Pig. BRING BACK THE LOVE
Drowning video: Simone Kaye with Davy Spillane and Cosmic Voices
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This is the conceptual trailer which shot to raise the money for Carmilla, a feature film now being produced by Paul Cowan (The Crying Game) and Chris Wheeldon (Wings of the Dove) which has enabled us to attach Jennifer Ellison (Phantom Of The Opera) to play Laura, the vampire's intended victim, in Hungary next year when she has finished her successful run in Boeing Boeing in London's West End.Jennifer Ellison talking about Carmilla to GMTV's Lorraine Kelly
Add to My Profile | More VideosI play piano, guitar, violin, Hammond, synthesisers, flute, design sounds & compose music for film. The music on this page is one of the tracks from my forthcoming 'Son of Lumiere' album on Long Tale Recordings which you will be able to buy through the WOMAD shop. You can also download these tracks for free from Peter Gabriel's innovative We7.com website where I get paid from the advertising.
C I also play keyboards in Fire In The South and our Double A-side single Father/Comfort is available on iTunes, EasyMusic and wippit.com and at Peter Gabriel's free download site above if you would rather listen to an ad instead of paying for the mp3. Here is the video for Father, shot at the Ace Cafe in London and featuring an amazing new way to get stop motion effects from live action, invented by veteran music video director Steve Price
At the other end of the scale, I do solo piano gigs at places like Cafe de Paris and Jazz After Dark in Soho and Viva Viva in Hornsey. Here I mainly play my own music as written for films and TV shows. Here is an example:
Love Theme From Venetian Heat
Add to My Profile | More Videos Now onto my films and music videos.I I speak French and German fluently, Italian and Spanish tolerably and can order a meal (the important stuff, you see!) in about four other languages. I love to travel which I do a lot ("Thursday's child has far to go") Film festivals like Cannes, Venice and AFM in Santa Monica are a particularly good excuse for travel. Here is a glimpse of what we get up to in Cannes in the bar of the Martinez.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, PIANOWiffen & Posse in the Martinez @ Cannes Film Festival
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Of course, occasionally I do get some work done on the movies I am working on and even get people like the BBC to take me seriously. This interview was done at the AFM in Santa Monica (Los Angeles); Interview by BBC London at American Film Market
Add to My Profile | More VideosA video audition I shot for my mate Joe Ripley for Daredevil in the MySpaceMovieMashup competition has just gone up on the MySpaceTV Home page (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.splash), which is a real buzz. Have a look and see what you think, he's great: MyMovie MashUp Audition – Daredevil
Add to My Profile | More VideosI am also a specialist in music and video technology, writing for magazines like Sound on Sound and High Definition. Been told I am too modest about who I have worked with over the years, so here comes the big name-drop. Stevie Wonder (with whom I toured for 18 months), Vangelis (film scores), Peter Gabriel (during Up, OVO and Rabbit-Proof Fence), Paul McCartney (Spies Like Us), Mike Rutherford, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Dave Gilmour & Brian May (on the 5.1 Surround Remix of Bohemian Rhapsody).
With Dave Stark of Songlink and producer Martyn Phillips, I organise the Sunday Night Music Session in North London and I am in UK prog-rock band Fire in The South
My band Fire In The South at the Bull & Gate earlier this year
Add to My Profile | More VideosThis is a full 30 minutes with six songs.But then what do you expect with someone who looks so similar to Leonardo Da Caprio, Vincent d'Onofrio and Matthew McConaughey?
This one's even more surreal, if that's possible
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