Music 4

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.

We have recently completed a series of virals for Holiday Extras (sound design, voice record and mix) on behalf of Crispy Thinking - www.crispythinking.com.

Check out the link below - be careful where you park your car next time you go on holiday!

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!

Rockcorps 2009: Preview airs on Channel 4 this Saturday (25th) at 11.20am.

Lady GaGa and Alex Zane visit the volunteers who are working to earn tickets to the first Rockcorps concert at the Apollo in Manchester.

Music 4 Studios were responsible for the voice record, sound design and overall audio mix.

The award winning promo for film channel Picturebox "Rollercoaster" has come back to Music 4 Studios for a makeover! The promo has now got new visuals so we spent a few hours with our friends at Th1ng redesigning the sound to picture along with recording the voice over.

Airing later this year on Channel 4 will be Phil Spencer’s new series “Phil Down Under”. He’s heading to the other side of the world to help emigrating Brits find their perfect home in Australia. He found the “perfect home” to voice his narration for 4 x 60 minute episodes at Music 4 Studios! Phil’s partner on Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location series (voiced at Music 4 Studios), Kirstie Allsopp, has also recently recorded her VO for her series “Kirstie’s Homemade Home” here as well.

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!

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.

Music 4 Studios were chosen to record, mix and dub audio for a number of inserts featured on the ultra cool 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. Prior to the live event held in Liverpool on 6th November, Trevor Nelson visited our studios to voice a series of nomination inserts for the main show. We then created the final mix and dub of the finished inserts to a tight deadline including the intro video for Paul McCartney who picked up the ultimate legend prize.

Hosted by Katy Perry, the MTV Europe Music Awards is Europe's biggest music awards show with live performances and winners that are chosen by the public.The awards were broadcast live on MTV Europe, MTV and most of the international MTV channels as well as online.

Click here to see Paul McCartney's intro mixed by Music 4 Studios.