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About Me
Music Composer For Hire
David Fisher
I am a Music Composer For Hire with over thirty years’ experience in all aspects of music and sound production.
I write, produce, play and programme many styles of music and songs. I have also had considerable experience recording, arranging, mixing and re-looping, dubbing, sound designing and foley work for film. As a sound engineer I have recorded orchestras, opera singers, hypnotists, voice-overs, talking books, Mbira bands, and produced music styles from death metal to traditional folk and chill-out to hip hop.
I am a multi-instrumentalist and singer with my own fully equipped private studio facility.
Since attending a foundation course in art at Epsom College of Art and Design and gaining a 2:1 degree in Philosophy from the University of London I have played hundreds of gigs and festivals all around the UK as a solo artist performing my own songs and as a backing singer, drummer, guitarist, bassist, keyboard player and percussionist with my own and other people’s bands. I once did a solo support slot for Bjorn Again at Aberystwyth University where I bounced on stage on an original Spacehopper! I have performed in musicals (a highlight was as Colonel Pickering in “My Fair Lady” with a live orchestra).
I have been interviewed and played my songs at live radio sessions to promote my own albums all over the country (from Glasgow to Swindon to Hull to Cardiff) I have mixed live bands, been a roadie (on one occasion for The Pete Best Band – the Beatles first drummer!) I have acted in plays by Tom Stoppard, Dario Fo, Alan Ayckbourn, Anton Chekhov and Arnold Wesker. I have recorded many voiceovers for short films. I have been a film sound recordist and boom swinger on sound stages at Pinewood, Shepperton and The Mill (London) film studios, mainly for productions by Panico Pictures (run by Monty Python sound man Bob Doyle). I have mixed the master soundtracks for many films. I have taught drums and guitar. I have run educational music group sessions at SCOLA in Sutton.
Solo Performance
“David is a natural born songwriter. He knows the anatomy of writing a song like few people do.”
Alex Heffes
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I have made two albums of my own material, FIREHORSE
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Here is a video I filmed in Switzerland and edited myself for my song ‘Dreamcatcher’
And another video for the song ‘Goodbye’ from FIREHORSE I filmed in BBC TV Centre, Wood Lane, London on its last official day of broadcasting
Here’s a pro-shot video I edited myself for a single off HONEYTRAP
I have released three EPs and three singles
And these are the videos for my first single “Liberty Street” c/w “Save The World” in the days of vinyl!
Over the years I have been lucky enough to work with such talents as:
- Chris Difford (Squeeze)
- Chris Whitten (Paul McCartney, Dire Straits)
- Tim Bradshaw (David Gray, John Mayer, Tanita Tikaram, Eddie Reader)
- Big Jim Sullivan (David Bowie, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Tom Jones)
- Maya Magub (Bono, Paul McCartney, London Mozart Players)
- Martyn Swain (Julian Lennon, The Waterboys, Aimee Mann, Sinead O’Connor)
- Alex James (Blur)
- Dermot Lynch (Fat Lady Sings, Dog’s Eye View, David Gray)
- Jeremy Stacey (King Crimson, Sheryl Crow, Noel Gallagher, Roger Daltrey)
- Fat Les (I was one of the many voices singing on his top ten football song hit “Jerusalem”)
- Alvin Gibbs (Iggy Pop, UK Subs)
- Peter Sarstedt
- Craig “Clune” McClune (David Gray, Orbital, “Velvet Goldmine” Soundtrack drummer)
- Steve Creese (Julian Cope, The Doves)
- Charlie Grima (Roy Wood’s Wizzard)
- Jez Larder (David Bowie, The Damned)
- Nigel Ross-Scott (Re-Flex, Ultravox, Helen Terry, The Pretty Things, Nina Hagen)
- Ben Hillier (Happy Mondays, The Rolling Stones, U2, Suede, Smashing Pumpkins, Marianne Faithful, Blur, Elbow, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Fat Lady Sings, Depeche Mode)
- Peter Watts (Spygenius)
- Keith Boyce (The Heavy Metal Kids)
- Director Jamie Payne (Dr Who, Ashes to Ashes, Survivors)
- The late veteran cinematographer/director and Honorary Oscar winner Jack Cardiff (“The Red Shoes”, “A Matter of Life and Death”, “Black Narcissus”, “The African Queen”, “Girl on a Motorcycle”, “Rambo: First Blood Part II”)
- Mary McCartney (daughter of Paul)
- …and I even made a festive single with punk poet and national treasure Dr John Cooper Clarke as special guest
Monochrome Live Portrait Photographs by Rob Telford Copyright © 2021