AUTUMN 09
Started Autumn term back at Bath Spa Uni lecturing on the M.A. songwriting course.
Continued writing with Ed Drewett & Eliza Wren Payne
renewed writing with Simple MInds vocalist Jim Kerr
Track cowritten with 7 times mobo nominated rapper KANO
2 tracks written with Arista RnB artist Mclean
Ed Drewett has signed to Virgin/EMI (march 09)
Writing with new Warner Chappell signing Eliza Wren Payne
Co wrote 4 tracks with Simple Minds vocalist Jim Kerr
Continued writing with Kirsten Ana
Lecturing on spring term 1 day a week at Bath Spa Uni M.A songwriting course .
12 songs have now been written and recorded with Ed Drewett who signed to Warner Chappell publishing dec 08
lecturing 1 day a week on the new MA course in songwriting at Bath Spa University for the new term in October 08.
A song entitled "why me why now" has been written with Hannah Robinson and recorded by The Saturdays for their new album.
A track "How to get your love"has been co written with Shelly Poole for her new band Red Sky July.
A new song "Outsider" written with Will Young and Shelly Poole .
B-Movie play a rare one off London gig on April 12th 08 at the Metro Club.
Freefonix now airing on BBC1 Fridays , features 3 Statham cowritten tracks.
New Helicopter Girl album "Metropolitan" scheduled for Summer 08 release, features 10 new cowritten
and produced tracks.
Writing in progress with Warner Chappell artist Kirsten Ana
Mp3 player now on site to play a selection of music used in various installations and exhibitions.
Writing in progress with Dot Allison (established solo artist and former Massive Attack vocalist).
Writing in progress with Glaswegian singer/songwriter Pearl.
2 tracks finished with Icelandic artist Disa for her new album.
A new track "Under your sky " has been written with Canadian singer songwriter Carmen Hillary for her soon to be released new album.
The opening of Aldo Rota's exhibition "Working Project" held at the Spazio Strato on the 18th September in Milan was a great success.Information and pictures plus music from both this and the Paolo Mazzanti exhibition will be posted on the installations and project page soon.Please visit www.aldorota.com for more information.
The collaboration with Italian photographer Paolo Mazzanti was very successful. Paolo's website contains some amazing photographs from this collaboration.Visit www.mazzanti.it for more information.
Writing underway with former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy for a new album.
(Murphy and Stathams 7th album featuring co-written work).
Music is being written to accompany Italian artist Aldo Rota's forthcoming exhibition in Milan on September 18 th
2 pieces of instrumental piano works (The spire and Architecture) have been included in the Rossini festival in Pesaro Italy.The work also accompanies a new photographic exhibition by Paolo Mazzanti in a joint exhibition entitled La Vista Del Tempo held at the Palazzo Lazzarini.
The new as yet untitled Helicopter Girl album is complete and is preceeded by the single "it doesnt get much better than this".The single is currently riding high in the music week dance charts.
Writing in progress with new Glaswegian singer/songwriter Katie Sutherland
Writing is taking place with Gary Kemp for new artist Roxanne Yarnold.She has already supported Westlife ,Shane Ward and G4 on their sellout Arena tours performing some of the new material.
Cowriting with Alex Cartana and Hannah Robinson for Alex's new album.
2 songs have been written with former black box recorder vocalist Sarah Nixey for her new album "Sing Memory"(out Feb 07).One of these tracks "when I'm here with you" is the first single.
2 songs written with Terri Walker and Estelle for the rhyme4respect project.
Writing tracks with Magnus Fiennes for the new Freefonix TV series .
A track entitled "Out of my hands" cowritten with Alice Mclaughlin has been recorded by Keisha White for her new album entitled Out of my hands released July 06
Production of new Australian band The Cyclones first album starts in July
Gig with Shelly Poole at Pizza on the Park Knightsbridge -24th April and Hammersmith Apollo -26th April (supporting Darren Hayes)
Co-writing with Peter Murphy in progress
Writing with Kelly Malone in progress
My Space page set up
B-Movie gig confirmes for March 25th at the Metro in London
Co-writing with Massive Attack vocalist Dot Allison underway
Website has a new page exhibiting pictures painted by Peter Bonas (former guitarist with Peter Murphy)
New version of "lost in you" from Shelly album ready for release in May 2006
10 new tracks recorded for upcoming Helicopter Girl album to be released in Jan 2007
Co-writes underway with Jade Anderson and Marisa Macbeth
Shelly Poole album "Hard time for the dreamer" is now available to download from the i-tunes store or to purchase in selected stores.
The first Shelly single "totally underwater" is i-tunes single of the week and "little wonder" an album track is now a Radio 2 Wogan show track being played most days..
Live gigs with Shelly have been going down very well and more are planned.
B-Movie have been rehearsing for an upcoming gig in Nottingham poss Nov 2005 .
A track entitled 'I will be there" cowritten with Pascal Gabriel and Hannah Robinson has been recorded by Rachel Stevens for her new album.
A new Helicopter Girl album has commenced at Stathams loki Studios.
Cowriting is underway in collaboration with Shelly with new Icelandic artist Bryndis and former Speedway vocalist Jill Jackson.
Work has just finished on former Alisha's Attic vocalist Shelly Poole's new album Hard time for the dreamers. 10 tracks have been co-written/produced and will be released on the " Transistor Project " label . The release date is September 2005.
Various co-writing has commenced (Jan 2005) in collaboration with Shelly Mcerlaine with Sophie Ellis Bextor , Amy Studt and Atomic kitten's Liz McClarnon.
A special anniversary gig with the B-Movie original line up is being performed at London Venue the Metro Club on 31st Oct 2004.
An acoustic gig with Shelly Mcerlaine is being performed at the Cobden Club in London on the 4th October 2004.
6 songs have been co-written with Peter Murphy for his new album Unshattered released by Via Star on 5th October 2004.
5 songs co-written/produced by Statham are featured on the new Helicopter Girl album Voodoo Chic (out now).
Additional production was carried our by Statham on the new Helicopter Girl single Angel City.
A cowrite and production with Kristian Leontiou entitled Here I am is featured as an extra track on forthcoming single Shining (August 21 2004).
A new label entitled Loki Records has been set up to initially release the music written for the installation/art works. A piece of this music entitled "Ascension" is available to download now.