Music 4

Three competition finalists spent the morning at Music 4 writing and producing jingles for The Chris Moyles Show, kicking off a day of creative challenges. Natalie, Luke and Jack were told on air at 7.45am this morning that they had to come to Music 4 and write a jingle each. Our studios, producer Small Paul and the rest of the Music 4 team together with jingle singer, Richard Oliver, were all on standby ready to go. The jingles were written and recorded and played out on air by 9.45am ... not a bad turnaround time!

The winners were treated like superstars (well, we gave them coffee and yummy croissants!).

The eventual winner will get to go VIP (with up to 20 of their mates!) to Radio 1's massive dance party in Torbay, Devon this weekend, celebrating the arrival of the Olympic Torch on UK soil and showcasing the best in dance music.

You can check out the audio and photos below!

As a special treat for Chris Moyles, Music 4 teamed up with The BBC Concert Orchestra, Pixie Lott, JLS, One Direction and even Radio 1's Sarah Cox for a musical feast this morning to celebrate Chris' birthday. Between 8am and 10am, all of the jingles on Chris' show were performed live.

We've done live jingles before but never with a 62 piece orchestra! It was no mean feat keeping the whole thing secret but we pulled it off and it sounded incredible.

It was a real team effort between the show's producers at BBC Radio 1 and of course the guys here at Music 4.

We were also heavily involved with an amazing new version and arrangement of Pixie Lott's "All About Tonight" that was re-written by Comedy Dave to sing "All About Chris Moyles".

Check out some photos from this morning below and you can see more pictures on the Radio 1 Website ... if you have a spare half hour or so take a look at this amazing video!

Music 4 are often asked to do 'almost impossible things' and Radio 1's latest request was no different... make Tina Daheley from The Chris Moyles Show sing in tune! On playing the new Chris Brown / Chipmunk track on Radio 1, Chris wondered if they could remove Chris Brown and replace him with someone else. Tone deaf Tina offered and we were asked to work our magic.

Tina recorded her vocals at Music 4 studios yesterday afternoon and the results were played out on Radio 1 early this morning.

Check out the audio here, or watch a video of the session below



The final track went down a storm with Chris and the team on the show and the audience loved it too.

Commenting on her Twitter account, Tina said "I am properly overwhelmed by all the love for my vocals, I actually feel like a popstar"

Not only is BBC Radio 1's Matt Fincham part of the award winning team behind The Chris Moyles Show, he is also a bit of a 'radio jingle anorak' so to help him celebrate his birthday today, we gave Matt a very special gift. Complete with full artwork by our very own in house designer Andre, Matt this morning received a CD full of our world famous Radio 1 '1tros' (the little sonic logos we create weekly for Radio 1). He also got his own special birthday jingle.

The whole thing happened live on air this morning, just after 9am and you can hear it by clicking here.

Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) ended a long day promoting her new new album "Can't Be Tamed" here at Music 4. Multi-platinum selling Miley was at Music 4 for various radio and television interviews. In between she also had a little play on our new iPad which arrived her first thing Friday morning!

This is the second visit to Music 4 Studios and we're sure she'll be back again.

Her latest CD “Can’t Be Tamed,” is released later this month.

So, BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles is stuck in New York but is back on the air via the studios of Sirius Radio. To reflect this, Music 4 has managed to turn around new versions of his jingles reflecting the fact that Chris is a VAV (a victim of volcanic ash).

Hear the jingles live on Radio 1 from this morning (Wed 21st April).

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!

Music 4 have created the theme tune for 'Chris Moyles' Quiz Night' on Channel 4. 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.