Hackney Colliery Band – Large-Scale Arranging & Music Production

As bandleader and principal creative lead for Hackney Colliery Band, I’ve written, arranged and produced music for large-scale live shows and collaborative projects performed in venues including the Barbican.

This work sits somewhere between composition, arrangement and music direction: creating material that is bold, audience-facing and full of character, while also making it function in the real world for a live band, guest artists and complex performance settings. It’s practical music-making as much as imaginative music-making, which is often where the actual craft lives.

These projects have involved shaping arrangements, leading rehearsals, refining the musical identity of shows and helping turn broad creative ideas into coherent live work.