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!!!!

Friday 5th July 2013: Juice FM in Liverpool has a new on-air sound this week as part of our ongoing relationship with the UTV Radio Group. The new imaging is fresh and is designed to fit perfectly with the stations young and fresh music policy and presenters.

We will add some audio here to Music 4.com as soon as we can!

Wave 105 launched their latest set of Music 4 Jingles on Jan the 1st 2013. We are once again delighted to be working with the team at Wave 105, who are one of our longest running UK stations.

The station launched with a custom Music 4 package in February 1999 and we are very proud to say they have been with us ever since.

We wish Wave 105 continued success during 2013 and beyond.

The second album by Chris Moyles is out now (released Monday November 5th 2012). The album was produced by Chris Moyles and Music 4's Creative Managing Director, Sandy Beech. The majority of the album was recorded right here at Music 4 Studios.

The album features guest performances from Pixie Lott, The Rizzle Kicks, Olly Murs, Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Ricky Wilson, Ed Sheeran and many more.

Sandy and the team at Music 4 have produced every track from scratch (rather than using existing backing tracks) and the album also features a number of original tracks written by the same team behind many of Music 4's famous Jingles, TV Themes and Production Music.

Music 4 Studios were busy throughout August and September recording the album.

BE WARNED THOUGH - THIS IS AN EXPLICIT ALBUM!!

The album is in the shops now or online...(links below).

iTunes
Amazon
HMV
Play.com

Music 4's Managing Director Sandy Beech and the team here at Music 4 Studios are the production team behind the brilliant new Chris Moyles Album. Chris Moyles - The Difficult Second Album (Mercury Records) is Released Nov 5th 2012 and features guest performances from Pixie Lott, The Rizzle Kicks, Olly Murs, Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Ricky Wilson, Ed Sheeran and many more.

Sandy was hired as the album's producer and recorded and mixed the majority of the album right here at Music 4. Every track has been produced from scratch (rather than using existing backing tracks) and the album also features a number of original tracks written by Sandy and the team behind many of Music 4's famous Jingles, TV Themes and Production Music.

Music 4 Studios were busy throughout August and September recording vocals and overdubs for the album.

UTV Media's network of stations have a new sound thanks to Music 4 in London. The new groupwide package is now airing on Signal, Signal 107, The Pulse, 96.4 The Wave, Radio Wave, Tower FM, Wire FM, Wish FM and Peak FM. The jingle package follows the recent appointment of David Dunne as Group Music Scheduler and Terry Underhill joining as Group Programme Director last Autumn.

UTV's Calum Macaulay, Director of Local Radio, said: "The sound of our stations has been lifted to a new level today and we believe that our listeners will love the new, fresh sound on our stations. Terry and the senior programming team here have delivered an exciting new jingle package that will help us to continue to grow our audience."

Sandy Beech, Managing Director of Music 4, said: "We were thrilled to have been commissioned to produce the new sound for the UTV local radio stations. The project went without a hitch and we are extremely pleased with the results."

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!

We're always very proud of the long term relationships we build with our client stations and U105 in Northern Ireland is no exception. U105 ordered their first set of jingles from Music 4 back in November 2005. They have stood the test of time and remain on air alongside a 'new' package of cuts just delivered.

The recent additions include a full re-sing of the Wave 105 package from January 2010 plus re-sings of a number of jingles for the stations 'Golden Years' adapted from our fabulous Capital Gold package (originally created in May 2002!).

We always try our best to create jingles and logos that stand the test of time and we think U105 has chosen some excellent material from our back catalogue. We have worked hard with Maurice and the team at U105 to ensure they fit the stations output perfectly.

Audio coming soon.... Search 'U105' here at Music4.com to hear previous packages.

Stations across the Real Radio Network have today launched a new set of breakfast show themes from the team here at Music 4. The cuts are adaptations from pervious Music 4 jingles and have been remixed for all the Real Radio Breakfast Shows.

Audio coming soon!

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.

In the run up to Christmas, Real Radio commissioned a re-sing of last years Christmas jingles to reflect their 'Win A Dream Christmas' promotion. Real Radio also commissioned three re-sings for the launch of the brand new 'Real Radio Breakfast' for Real Radio Scotland. The 'Real Radio Breakfast' cuts have been adapted from jingles from our extensive back catalogue.

The breakfast re-sings not only feature new vocals, but also received a number of musical adaptations to ensure all the cuts fully reflect the Real Radio sonic logo throughout.

More details and audio coming soon!

Long standing Music 4 client, Radio City 96.7 have started 2011 with a brand new, red hot music imaging package from the team here at Music 4. Music 4 has provided the imaging for Radio City since August 2000, making this our 11th year on air in Liverpool.

We are all extremely proud to be part of such a standout UK station and wish all the team at City another successful year!

Audio coming soon!

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.

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!

Music 4 created a number of custom jingles and provided back catalogue material for 'When Chris Moyles Met The Radio 1 DJ's" which went out on BBC 2 last Sunday night. If you didn't get a chance to see the show, you can still see it on the BBC iPlayer but only until this sunday (May 16th 2010)...to see it CLICK HERE

Audio and video highlights will appear here soon!

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).

We're a little late adding this one to music4.com, but Spin Southwest (the hit music / CHR station for the south west of Ireland) has a fresh new sound and sonic logo thanks to Music 4. Created towards the end of 2009, this package works seamlessly with all the latest hits from artists such as Lady GaGa, Rihanna and JLS and as well as sounding red hot on Spin, is now available for syndication around the world.

Young, fresh and totally 'now'...checkout the demo by clicking 'go to project' below.

Music 4 have created some fun new jingles (or should we say mini songs) for BBC Radio 1's Sunday Surgery with Aled. The show is aimed at a young audience and aims to tackle listeners problems ranging from embarrassing spots right through to more serious concerns such as drug addiction.

These new jingles have been commissioned to promote the opening of the phone lines and are broadcast on a Sunday night around 8.30pm. They are all produced in the styles of current chart songs.

There's a new way to wake up in London thanks to the BBC London 94.9 Breakfast Show with Gaby Roslin and Paul Ross. As part of the stations new programme schedule for 2010, Music 4 have refreshed some key elements of BBC London's jingle package. The breakfast and Drive themes have been remixed plus new themes have been created for the stations all important News and Travel output.

All the new tracks feature strings and/or brass recorded in Studio 1 at the world famous Abbey Road Studios.

Music 4 is starting 2010 with a bang thanks to a number of new music commissions including the latest themes for The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1. Recorded at our biggest ever session at Abbey Road Studio 1 with a full orchestra and then mixed and mastered here at Music 4 Studios, this is one BIG sounding package!

Click 'go to project' below to hear the results and
check out some photos from the recording session.

Also coming soon... new jingles for BBC London 94.9 and new packages for Wave 105 and Spin Southwest (Ireland).

On Monday September the 7th 2009, Chris Moyles became Radio 1's longest ever serving breakfast show host, beating the record previously held by Tony Blackburn (Radio 1's first ever breakfast show presenter) since Tony came off the breakfast show on the 1st of June 1974. The team here at Music 4 are extremely proud to have been with Chris every step of the way on this massive journey as the creators and producers of the shows now famous on-air branding, jingles and beds.

Over the past five years we have produced hundreds of jingles and beds for the show including the legendary 'opening song' which launched Chris onto the Radio 1 Breakfast Show in January 2004.

We remain pretty certain that the 'opening song' is the longest 'jingle' ever to be actually broadcast in full on the radio and to celebrate Chris's record breaking show the whole thing was played again (with a few changes here and there).

To hear the 2009 version, simply click 'go to project' below.

Music 4 have created two new summer jingles for Real Radio. The brand new custom cuts were created back in June when the weather people were promising the hottest summer on record!

If we actually get a hot sunny day this year, you'll hear them across the entire Real Radio network... in the meantime, we suggest you close your eyes, imagine warm sunshine on your face and let these cuts take you to a happy, sunny place!

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.

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.

Music 4 have produced the theme tune for all the coverage of The Big Climb for Comic Relief 2009 on BBC Radio 1. 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.

Owned and operated by Celador Radio, The Coast is the new regional radio station for the Solent area of the UK. The station launched on Thursday the 30th of October 2008 and Music 4 worked closely with the station on both the jingles and themes for the station and the overall 'production sound' and voice casting. This station has a very unique format and playlist and our brief was to create a subtle and classy sound for the station to fit perfectly with the stations output.

We produced a number of instrumental jingles and themes based around a short yet memorable audio logo and worked closely with the programming team to identify the perfect voice for the stations jingles and liners.

All the voice sessions for the stations are recorded at Music 4 Studios.

Audio examples of our work for 'The Coast' have just been added ...click the 'go to project' link below to take a listen.

Lady GaGa, Duffy, Actor Richard Briers, Keith Chegwin, Kate Thornton, Newsreader Alistair Stewart and actor Joel Beckett (aka Eastenders Jake Moon) are the latest set of famous faces to visit the team here at Music 4 Studios. Chart-topper Lady GaGa visited Music 4 to promote her new album "The Fame" (which includes her number 1 single "Just Dance") with a series of ISDN and face-to-face interviews to a number of local and regional radio stations.

We were delighted to welcome back Duffy on her 3rd return visit to Music 4 to talk about her success this year. Duffy undertook ISDN interviews to regional radio stations as well as face-to-face interviews.

Actor Richard Briers was on his return visit to Music 4 to voice a viral campaign for Ferrari. Keith Chegwin popped in to record jingles for The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1.

Kate Thornton popped in for her return visit to voice inserts for Elton John's New Years Eve show at the O2 Arena. The inserts were later mixed by our engineers at Music 4 Studios.

Newsreader Alistair Stewart came into the studios to record a corporate DVD via ISDN. We also accommodated actor Joel Beckett with an ISDN link to Germany to voice a TV commercial for Nivea.

The team at Music 4 and Music 4 Studios have been working hard throughout December on fresh new imaging for BBC Radio 1... A number of new jingles and themes have been produced for The Chris Moyles Show and Newsbeat.

The hugely popular Chris Moyles Show moves into it's 5th year in January 2009 and will burst back on the air with new jingles, themes and contest beds for the show.

Radio 1 Newsbeat will be freshened up with a remixed theme for 2009.

Click here to listen to some of the new Chris Moyles jingles.

As always, the music team here at Music 4 have been busy composing and creating world class jingles and themes for stations both here in the UK and over in Dublin and we've recently uploaded audio for the following stations...

Radio City 96.7 Liverpool
Dublin's 98
Dublin's FM104
BBC Three Counties Radio
BBC London 94.9 Take a listen to our latest work by clicking the links above or visiting our music services section and always, you can use our powerful search engine to look for stations or individual tracks and styles.

Music 4's music imaging for London's number 1 radio station, Magic 105.4, picks up a Gold at the Sony Radio Awards 2008 and Chris Moyles wins a Gold for Best Breakfast... It was an exciting evening at The Sony Radio Awards for the Music 4 team as our work for Magic 105.4 helped the station secure the gold award for station imaging.

Judges comments:

"There was one word that all the judges said when they heard this entry “Class”. The playlist and the production feel perfectly at home together - this is imaging that totally works on the air. Consistent imaging/brand positioning. A rich feel and depth of sound in all imaging executions. Very clear messaging making it easy for listeners to understand the proposition".

In addition, Chris Moyles picked up the coveted Best Breakfast Award. Music 4 creates a vast amount of custom music tracks and jingles featured on Chris's show and are very proud to be a part of Radio 1's most successful breakfast show for many years. Many other Music 4 clients walked away with awards at the ceremony so congratulations to all this years winners.

Previous successes at the Sony's in the station imaging category featuring our work include a Gold for BBC 7 and several bronze and silver awards for BBC Radio 1.