TV, Film, Video, Media

 

In 1980 Simon met film and TV composer Simon Brint establishing a writing partnership that continued until Brint’s death in 2011. Together they scored innumerable hours of material beginning with ‘A Shocking Accident‘ (Oscar for best short film 1981) and culminating with Ronnie Corbett’s 2010 BBC Christmas show ‘The One Ronnie’.  Over the years they wrote and produced music for some of Britain’s most popular television shows including: ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, ‘Murder Most Horrid’, ‘Monarch of the Glen’, ‘London’s Burning’, ‘French and Saunders’, ‘The Ruby Wax Show’, , ‘The All New Alexie Sayle Show’, ‘Coupling’, ‘’, ‘All Rise For Julian Clary’, ‘Tracey Ullman Takes On New York’, ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’, ‘’ and many others.  They arranged and MDd TV appearances by: Kylie Minogue, Marianne Faithful, Lulu, Suggs, Sinead O’Connor Boy George, P.P. Arnold, Colin Bluntstone, Julie Tippett, Marcella Detroit and Mari Wilson.

Simon also scored many hours of film and TV independently of Simon Brint including the ITV series Duck Patrol  starring Richard Wilson and David Tennant and the Channel 4 children’s series ‘Hand In Hand’. He scored innumerable educational videos including the series ‘Famous Authors’.

Together with Joji Hirota he scored Theo Eschetu’s video portrait of Lindsay Kemp ‘Travellin’ Light‘.

He has collaborated with painter Molly Parkin on a series of videos featuring improvising musicians and scans of both her abstract and figurative work.