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.

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.

Chris Moyles, Fearne Cotton and seven other brave celebs have gone to Africa for one of the biggest challenges of their lives....they are walking for seven days to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for Comic Relief.

Chris and Fearne are climbing alongside Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Alesha Dixon, Ben Shepherd, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Gary Barlow.

In addition to the main theme for the coverage of the climb on Radio 1, while Chris climbs the mountain, Vernon Kay is presenting the Breakfast Show and we've customised Chris' jingles to reflect this on-air change.

We worked on this project back in November but couldn't share this with anyone until now.

This project demonstrates how the combination of our post production skills and music composition skills can work together perfectly for a major international brand.

The music track was created from scratch and features a ukulele which really helps with the quirky end result. The track was composed, recorded, mixed and mastered right here at Music 4 Studios.

Click the 'go to project' link below to see and hear the end results!