Supersize Teens: Can’t Stop Eating aired last night (1st June) on ITV1. Music 4 Studios recorded the narration for the programme and provided the final mix.
Can’t Stop Eating, narrated by television drama star Lesley Sharp, is the story of two morbidly obese American teenage girls who underwent life threatening gastric bypass and gastric band operations in a bid to lose weight.
This is the latest in a series of shows surrounding the issues of obesity to pass through our studios. We love working on these shows but always feel slightly guilty when we start passing around huge plates of biscuits during the sessions!
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Showbiz superstar Des O'Connor recently spent a day here at Music 4 Studios filming a TV commercial promoting his new album "Inspired"which has been produced to promote the sale of the CD in Tesco stores.
Studio 1's control room and voice booth both feature in the ad... we even turned Studio 2 into Des' very own luxurious dressing room! The commercial is due to air soon.
It's been a crazy week at Music 4 Studios.
The madness started Tuesday morning when Lady GaGa made a return visit to Music 4 Studios to promote her new single "Paparazzi" and her album "The Fame". Lady GaGa undertook several ISDN Interviews to regional stations as well as press interviews... her famous cup and saucer even made an appearance.
Meanwhile, Kirstie Allsopp spent Tuesday recording narration in Studio 3 for her current Channel 4 show "Kirstie's Homemade Home".
On Tuesday night, our client lounge was transformed into an intimate live music venue to showcase fab Australian band 'The Panics'. They performed their latest single "Don't Fight It" along with tracks from their album "Cruel Guards". Around 60 media and press industry guests attended and Music Week called it "the gig of the week".
On Wednesday, Placebo came into the studios to promote their new single "For What It's Worth" from their upcoming album "Battle for the Sun" and actress and singer-songwriter Demi Lovato (aka Mitchie Torres in Camp Rock) promoted her new single "Don't Forget".
After such a rock and roll week, it was also a delight to welcome Peep Show star Robert Webb on Thursday who came in to voice radio promotions for the launch of the BBC's Poetry season!
Congratulations to Music 4 clients BBC Radio 1 and City Talk who both have nominations in the Station Sound Award Category. We are very proud that we helped Magic 105.4 win a gold in this category at last years awards and we of course hope one of our client stations walk away as winners this year too.
Best of luck to all our other clients who received numerous nominations in a wide range of categories for these prestigious awards which take place on the 11th of May at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
You can hear lots of projects for BBC Radio 1 in our radio jingle catalogue and you can listen to our City Talk package by clicking 'go to project' below.
New jingles from the team here at Music 4 now feature on all of the 'Real' stations in Scotland, Yorkshire and Wales and on the re-branded stations broadcasting across the northwest and northeast of England (previously Century Radio).
This package features a fresh new vocal sound from Music 4 and has been designed to maximise listener recall for RAJAR with the ultra powerful message "you're listening to Real" built into every cut. Sounds simple, but we reckon this is going to prove to be very effective.
John Simons, Group Programme Director says: "We’ve always aired high quality jingles on Real Radio and to coincide in with the re-branding of Century to Real, we were looking for a change of style. Music 4 came up with some great ideas for us".
Real Radio is one of the strongest regional radio brands in the UK broadcasting to key markets and successfully reaching millions of listeners every week. Working with the team at GMG has been an absolute pleasure and we are certain the new jingles will help take these stations to their next stage of development and make sure their listeners know for certain that they are "listening to Real!".
Take a listen to a fairly comprehensive selection of the jingles created for Real Radio in the northwest by clicking 'go to project' below.
A promo for film channel Picturebox (operated by NBC/Universal and broadcasting on 5 platforms across 3 countries) has picked up a coveted award for 'Best Film Promo' at the recent Promax/BDA European Awards.
The "Rollercoaster" campaign was created by our friends at Th1ng with stunning sound design by Music 4 Studios.
Click the 'go to project' link below to see and hear the award winning Rollercoaster promo.
Chris Moyles has a new weekly show on Channel 4 (Sunday nights at 10pm) and has once again chosen to work with the team here at Music 4 to create the theme tune for the show.
The theme for 'Chris Moyles' Quiz Night' is performed live on the show by an eight-piece, all-female big band and is based on one of his favourite Music 4 jingles from his Radio 1 show called 'Morning Retro'.
On the show, Chris plays a topical quiz against the celebrity guests.
Live music’s growing presence on UK radio is to be recognised with the debut of two awards at The Radio Academy’s forthcoming Radio & Music Forum on Friday the 27th of March 2009.
The conference and award ceremony, which is being staged in association with Music Week, will include the first presentation of both a live music award for a concert broadcast on the radio and the studio session award.
Music 4 Studios has received a nomination in the "Studio Session" category for a session recorded with Grammy and Brit award winner Adele for broadcast on a number of local and regional stations.
Radio Academy director Trevor Dann says the purpose of the awards is to reflect the different skills needed to translate the live music experience onto the radio. “The entries certainly compare very well to the numbers put in for a Sony award”.
We'll keep you posted on how we do but whatever the outcome, we're delighted to have received our nomination alongside BBC 6 Music and XFM.
Have a quick listen to how Adele sounded here at Music 4 Studios by clicking "go to project" below.