Music 4

Dublin has a brand new drive show and brand new imaging from Music 4 London! The station launched "The Big Ride Home with Dara Quilty" just a few hours after the jingles were delivered earlier today (Mon 25th Aug 2014).

We were still mixing the jingles at midday!

Anyway, they sound great (as does the show) and we are really chuffed to be part of this new show on 98FM

Take a quick listen via our Soundcloud page.

PS: How cool is this photo!!!!

Congratulations to Chris Moyles, Comedy Dave and the entire team at BBC Radio 1 for the monumental, record breaking 52 hour broadcast for Comic Relief. The broadcast raised a huge amount of money (over 2.6 million pounds) and created some of the best radio ever heard in the UK. It was also watched by millions of people on the BBC Red Button and Radio 1 Website.

Chris and Dave now hold the record for BBC Radio 1's longest ever show and the world's longest music radio programme.

It was of course our great pleasure to create all of the imaging beds and elements used throughout the show including all of the post production featuring US voice talent Paul Turner (over 100 openers / id's and stagers).

New beds and mixes were also created as the show went out as we reacted to what was happening on-air.

We are extremely proud to have played a part in this record breaking radio show and we hope Chris, Dave and the team at Radio 1 get a lot of sleep this weekend!

Click here to catch just some of the amazing highlights.

The latest set of radio listening figures are in (RAJAR) and once again, many stations using Music 4 jingles to brand their stations have had a fantastic set of figures. Congratulations to Magic 105.4. Once again they remain the number 1 commercial station in London. Congratulations also go to Chris Moyles and the team at BBC Radio 1 who have also posted a great set of figures. Well done to all our other client stations who have seen listening increases in this latest set of RAJAR figures.

To do well in RAJAR takes a lot of hard work, great presenters, promotions and of course the right music selections/rotations, but a great set of jingles also helps stations to standout and be "recalled" when listeners are asked to fill in those all important diaries.

The 'Hard Men Promo' for Five USA won gold at The Promax Awards on Friday Night! Needless to say we are extremely proud of this achievement. Written and directed by Robin Burke, it was sang by Richard Oliver who is our go to jingle singer known for heating up the mic on the Chris Moyles jingles. Our very own Small Paul mixed this promo in our Music 4 studios. This is a great honour as the Promax Awards are recognized around the world as the highest recognitions of achievement for promotion and marketing professionals. Well done guys.

The Michael Ball Show, produced by Spungold, is new for summer 2010 on ITV1 and launched yesterday (Aug 16th 2010) with a glitzy new theme tune from the team here at Music 4. Michael Ball is one of the nation’s most celebrated musical theatre stars and ever popular TV and radio presenter who is known for his warm personality and great sense of fun.

Michael’s show is a topical mix of entertainment, discussion and showbiz glamour with the occasional musical treat thrown in from the man himself.

Each weekday at 3pm, Michael chats with established showbiz personalities as well as introducing a variety of rising stars.

This theme tune follows in the footsteps of Music 4's theme tune for The Alan Titchmarsh Show also produced by Spungold which will return later in the year.

Audio/Video soon!

Somalian music sensation, K'Naan popped into the Music 4 studios on Tuesday to undertake a number of ISDN radio interviews. His song, Wavin' the Flag' (featuring another Music 4 regular Will.I.Am and David Guetta), has been number 1 in over 11 countries and is Coca Cola's world cup soundtrack.

K'Naan had just returned from the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert held in Soweto, South Africa and was full of the football spirit.

Music 4 is one of the hottest destinations in London for pop stars undertaking ISDN (down the line) interviews. Star treatment, great studios. Happy pop stars!

Music 4 have created a new mix of the main theme for The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 to reflect the World Cup taking place in South Africa. In addition to the remixed theme, we are updating Chris's jingles regularly during the tournament to reflect England's performance.

Audio coming soon, but for now, here's a blast from the past... The Chris Moyles World Cup Song.. still sounding great 4 years on: click here ... Still sounds great!

We have recently completed the full audio mix (voice record, sound design and audio dub) for a new series for Cartoonito which is the pre-school sister channel to Cartoon Network.

"Go And..." is a 26 x 11' Live action and animation activity-based series hosted by the 6 Cartoonito characters: Lolly, Ringo, Bubble, Spike, Cuba and Ting. Children are inspired to Go And...find out about the world around them in 6 different ways: Explore, Learn, Make, Play, Be, Sing & Dance.

The series is due to start at 9am on Monday 12th October

Go And... watch it, it's great!

Pop princess and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole spent today at Music 4 Studios to undertake interviews and promote her forthcoming new single Fight For This Love" and her forthcoming album Three Words'. In addition to a number of ISDN (down the line) interviews, Cheryl was visited by presenters from some of the UK's biggest and best radio stations including Rich and Kat from Capital FM & The Big Top 40 along with presenters from stations including Real Radio, Wave 105, Galaxy, Cool FM and many more.

This was a return visit to Music 4 Studios for Cheryl and as always she was absolutely lovely and everyone really enjoyed her company.

It was also great to welcome so many key radio presenters to the glitz and glamour of the West End. Many are still propping up the bar at the local pub!

We have great pleasure in welcoming back to Music 4 Studios, footballs answer to Curly, Larry and Mo (The Three Stoogies) in the form of Mark Chappers Chapman, Kevin Day and Graham Poll for the new football seasons podcast. This time the trio are joined by Championship Managers Roy Meredith who will be adding some incredible stats to go with the fun and inside information that we all know and love.

Welcome back boys!

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.

Bear Sanctuary was narrated by film, television and stage star Kenneth Cranham, who visited Music 4 Studios to record his narration. The final mixes were also undertaken by our engineers.
Bear Sanctuary is the story of captive bears in Romania living in terrible conditions. The programmes show how they are given hope and freedom by the bear sanctuary in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.

We are delighted to enhance our Discovery portfolio with this great show, which aired for the first time on Nov 27th (Animal Planet).

Click the 'go to project' link below to watch the video

It's been a good few days for 'star spotting' here at Music 4 Studios with visits from Enrique Inglesias, Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) and Brit Award winning Adele. Enrique Inglesias made a return visit to Music 4 to promote his new “Greatest Hits” album due for release November 17th. Enrique undertook several ISDN interviews to regional radio stations as well as face-to-face interviews. Both Enrique and his entourage had fun on our Nintendo Wii afterwards!

Actress and singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) also came into the studios this week to promote her newly released album “Breakout”. Miley Cyrus has been nominated for Best New Act at the forthcoming MTV Europe Music Awards on November 6th (co-incidentally, we recently mixed nomination packages for this MTV show, news to follow shortly). She has our vote! Unfortunately though, we didn't manage to grab a picture for our guest gallery. Maybe next time!

We were also delighted to welcome back Brit Award winner Adele for her third visit to promote her new single “Make You Feel My Love”. Adele performed a number of songs from her number 1 platinum selling album “19”. We set our vocal booth up to accommodate Adele on vocals alongside her guitarist and pianist.

After mixing the tracks on our fab SSL mixing console, we then continued with ISDN and face-to-face interviews in conjunction with delivering the recorded tracks to various radio stations. We were delighted to receive great feedback from the record company and radio stations for the overall sound and mix on her tracks and we look forward to recording more performances here at Berners Street.

For a highlight of "Make You Feel My Love" please click the link below.

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