September 2010

Sync News

• The latest Ikea commercial ‘'Cool Cats' is using ‘Pianni’ by Mara Carlyle. The commercial has become a YouTube sensation with over 2.5 million hits, and follows what happened when the producers let 100 cats loose overnight in an Ikea store. The track is taken from Mara Carlyle's album ‘The Lovely,’ available from Accidental Records.

• Clarks' latest ad campaign, 'Stand Tall' features the mesmerizing track 'Kiss The Sky' by Shawn Lee'’s Ping Pong Orchestra. The song is taken from the album ‘Voices and Choices ‘available on Ubiquity.

• The latest Tesco’ advert features the ever popular theme to ‘The Professionals’ by Laurie Johnson.

• Axe by Empire ST8 was featured in the opening episode of the new season of CSI: New York, broadcast in the US on September 4th.

• Seven Days is the new Channel 4 reality show based in Notting Hill and features the track “I Love You But Don’t Touch Me 'Cos You'’re Sick” by Black Daniel.

• Sailor Jerry Rum will be using ‘In Your Heart’ by A Place To Bury Strangers as part of the new online promotion.

• The new BBC comedy ‘Whites’ starring Alan Davies uses the track ‘Song for the Dead’ by Alexander Wolfe for the title music.

• Jonathan Goldstein has composed the new promotional idents for the new season of Desperate Housewives on E4.

Film

• David Arnold has scored the new British film Made In Dagenham, directed by Nigel Cole. The film is based on the true story of the 1968 Ford workers strike, where female employees fought against sexual discrimination. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and Jamie Winstone.

TV

• John Lunn has scored the music to the latest ITV hit drama series ‘Downton Abbey’. The period drama series starring Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern is set in pre-WWI England in an Edwardian country house, Downton Abbey and portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. 

• BDi composer Jack C Arnold has composed the music to the latest Channel 4 series This Is England '86. The series is a brand new drama on Channel 4 and revisits the gang from the hit film ‘This Is England’ three years on.

Theatre

• BDi composer Marc Teitler has composed the music for the new production at The National Theatre, ‘Blood & Gifts’. From the author of The Overwhelming by JT Rogers (NT 2006), Blood and Gifts is an epic political thriller, shot through with mad humor that sweeps from refugee camps to mountainous tribal regions to the corridors of power in Washington DC.