Curriculum Vitae

There are a number of media projects that I have been involved in, spanning live stage work, Television, Radio and Film.  Details can be found below.

1987 - 1992

Writing parody songs for regional stand up artists
Various (Unaccredited)

I used to write parody's of popular songs for various stand up artists in the Yorkshire region, mainly for established comedians on the Working Men's Club circuit, though some of the work was used later on comedy hour on the test broadcast of Huddersfield F. M. (See below)

1992 - 1993

Recording and production of radio adverts and jingles
Huddersfield F. M.

I was involved with the test broadcasts of the local radio station, Huddersfield F. M. (Now Home 107.9), recording adverts for local companies, jingles for the different slots and sponsorship messages for the station.  I later did more radio work for other small stations (Further details below).

1993 - 1997

Songwriter for local bands

I started writing songs for other bands who were local, I had been writing for a while with my own band, and this was a natural progression.  I still do this from time to time, though most of the work I do now is aimed towards internal projects.

1997 - 1999

Lob Stories™

Local producer, Rob Martin wrote and directed a Television pilot called LOB STORY, which cable TV company Cabletel (Later NTL, now Virgin Media) later commissioned to produce a series of programmes from, which was later called LOB STORIES.  I wrote the theme music and several of the incidental music parts, along with providing sound effects for the entire series.

1998

Radio sketches

In-between recording for LOB STORIES, several short sketches for radio were recorded.  One was recorded for Batley F. M. while the others were recorded for the Huddersfield University student radio. All of these were comedy, with the Batley F. M. sketch written as a parody of the film Titanic.

1999 - 2001

RS Audio

From late 1999 to late 2001, RS Audio produced short music for internet sites.  Among these was the original site for Clan TFD and LAN Street (The music from the LAN Street site is available at soundworks.uk.com on the Archives page, known as Spirals).  In 2002, RS Audio was re-organised to work on other musical projects, outside of internet based projects.  This later became the soundworks.uk.com site.

2001

Worms

Written and produced by Rob Martin, this was done for the Bradford Animation festival. It is a short animation about a group of worms and their quest for food.

2002 - 2003

Saving Ginger's Privates

Written and directed by Rob Martin, it is a cartoon about a gingerbread man living in a world of digestives. Funded by the Film Council of England and Yorkshire Media Production Agency. Saving Ginger's Privates was put together at Cosgrove Hall films, home of Danger Mouse.

In 2003 the Film Council were so pleased with how it turned out, they showcased it at the Cannes Film Festival in May. It was originally intended for the cinema, and is now doing film festivals all over the world. It was also  entered into the BAFTA awards in 2004 and later went on to win a number of awards in the film festival circuit that year.

2005

Recording The Sutton School Of Dance Live Show

In December 2005 Soundworks.uk.com was involved in the production of the Sutton School Of Dance's DVD of their live Christmas show.  This involved recording the show, which ran over 2 nights, and included some spoken parts, solo singing and group singing, as well as the dancing, for which the school is well known.

The show was recorded live over both nights and edited into a format that could be used in the final DVD edit.  The DVD is currently available either via the school or by contacting This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

2009

Under sea & whalesong soundtrack for Christmas exhibition

During December 2009, one of the larger local churches put on an exhibition showing various settngs in nature, and wanted a series of sounds related to the sea.  The theme they came to me with was the sound of being underwater with whalesong playing.  The track had to be at least 6 minutes in length, though may need to be either longer or looped.  In the end I created a 7 minute soundscape whith the option of seamlessly looping if played on an mp3 player, or faded looping if played from a CD.

2010 - present

Atari Music Network

In May 2010 I brought back online and took over the running of the Atari Music Netwok, taking full ownership of the site in August that year, after the site went offline at the beginning of May.

With a selection of music and software for the veteran platform, community forum and community link to both Facebook and Twitter, the site has proven to be as popular now as it was in the weeks before its collapse.

This is an ongoing project which runs alongside this website and all other projects I'm currently involved with.