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I was still just a young kid when my desire to compose and arrange music started. I didn't just want to play, I wanted to create. I've worked in lots of different genres from classical to comedy to electro acoustic. On this page you will find videos of past compositions and arrangements including my work with Bowjangles and The BeauBowBelles.

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BOWJANGLES

I have been the viola player, singer and MD of Bowjangles for 17 years. We are a 4 piece ensemble of musicians that create our own comedy, musical and theatrical productions. From 3 minute comedy songs to full scale musicals.

If you've seen one of our shows then you'll know it's a wild ride so when it comes to recording our music we feel we can't just record the music, we want to present the full experience. So we have recorded audio story book albums of our award winning theatre show EXCALIBOW and our recent comedy rock musical 'Dracula In Space'. This means you get all the stories and jokes alongside the music. The are available to buy from our website and Excalibow is also availble on all online streaming/download sites. 'Dracula in Space' is on tour in May in East Anglia, for dates and tickets plase visit our website.

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Weather Medley BOWJANGLES
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Weather Medley BOWJANGLES

There are lots of songs about the weather... here is Bowjangles' hilarious musical comedy sketch about the weather. Lead by weather girl Bertie (viola player) she tells the weeks weather using lyrics from songs whilst the rest of Bowjangles provide the underscore of the songs she is quoting. Can you get all the songs quoted?! Taken from the award winning comedy string quartet's 2015 show On the Box! A show following a days TV schedule for the fictitious TV channel The BJBC. "When I was putting this huge mash up together with what ended up being 15 songs, it was like a very complicated puzzle that I had to solve!" Bertie Anderson on arranging and creating the Weather Forecast sketch The songs: Jeepers Creepers -Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer Stormy Weather - Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler Here Comes the Sun - The Beetles I can see clearly now - Johnny Nash Sunshine on a Rainy Day - Martin Glover; Zoë Pollock Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg. Mr Blue Sky - ELO Heatwave - Martha & the Vandellas Clouds on the Horizon - Walter Trout, It's Rainin Men - The Weather Girls Riderz on the Storm - The Doors Umbrella - Rhianna Singin in the Rain - Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown Don't Rain on my Parade - Bob Merrill and Jule Styne Bring Me Sunshine - Arthur Kent & Sylvia Dee https://www.bowjangles.org/ https://www.instagram.com/bowjanglesmusic/ https://www.facebook.com/bowjanglesmusic/ https://twitter.com/bowjanglesmusic https://bowjangles.bandcamp.com/ ‘full of zest, action and charisma.. unfailingly entertaining’ Steve Bennett, Chortle * * * * * ‘Completely original… the music would be entertaining enough without all the other incredible action and comedy going on’ Broadway Baby * * * * * 'Superb musicians, tuneful singing voices and a gift for physical comedy' Broadway Baby Bowjangles are a string quartet who were never satisfied with sitting still. They create musical comedy sketches and theatre productions with comedy, singing, physical theatre and dance.
Exposure (Song of the Freelancer)
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Exposure (Song of the Freelancer)

Exposure is a song written about some of the many ways in which musicians (and all freelancers) are asked to do things for free using the dreaded offering of EXPOSURE in place of payment. We’ve all experienced it and many of us have fallen for the seductive idea of BEING SPOTTED and probably will fall for it again in the future, hoping that this time it might just be the one! (FYI It NEVER IS). If we had a verse about every version of the same request then this song would be at least 10 verses long! Covid 19 has made things even harder. Many of us have moved our performing onto the internet, which for the most part is unpaid. And, if you include the learning and purchasing of new technologies, even more time consuming than actual gigging. And of course it is all a desperate bid to catch a scrap of that bitter dream of EXPOSURE. 🙄 So with that in mind PLEASE LIKE SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE TO HELP US GET SOME MORE EXPOSURE!!!! 😁 👇🏻And of course our Virtual Tip Jar!👇🏻 www.ko-fi.com/Bowjangles Music, Lyrics and editing by Bertie Anderson Haggart ————————————————————————————— Bowjangles are comedy musicians who perform in all sorts of guises, from their own full theatrical productions to corporate events and weddings. To find out when we’re appearing in a theatre near you, or to book us for an event, visit www.bowjangles.org For more videos and funny musical content follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @bowjanglesmusic If you like our stuff and fancy buying us a coffee, you can on www.ko-fi.com/Bowjangles You can listen to the album of our award-winning theatre show EXCALIBOW on iTunes, Amazon, Google and Spotify or buy a luxury CD on our website shop. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/excalibow/1480703385 https://open.spotify.com/album/6QyDaL2AfHVMfq0KLuMEsI?si=nTZ3i3JXQb2zKYV-ObU7bA https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y6RRT93/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_bVoYEbRQFX75K
the beaubowbelles
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The BeauBowBelles were meant to be celebrating our 10 year anniversary in 2020 with lots of fun gigs and festivals but sadly all our shows were postponed or cancelled.. We have no plans at the moment to be playing live again.. BUT all of our previous albums are available online and we have actual real CDs and T-shirts that you can find on our bandcamp page. See below for all the links.

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THE BBBS WEIGHTLESS {OFFICIAL} A New Song From The BeauBowBelles About Our Inner Ugly Voice
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THE BBBS WEIGHTLESS {OFFICIAL} A New Song From The BeauBowBelles About Our Inner Ugly Voice

AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM 1/5/19 https://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/weightless-single/1458385828 https://open.spotify.com/album/1sZOnIYAFhahCAN6eJm5o7 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weightless-BeauBowBelles/dp/B07NWJ6QDJ/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=weightless+the+beaubowbelles&qid=1558339750&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull or from all the other usual places (Itunes, Amazon, Spotify etc) Please SUBSCRIBE and SHARE SHARE SHARE! The new single Weightless from The BeauBowBelles sets a new pace and intensity for the band. Weightless is about the internal struggles of an over anxious mind forever living in fear of the ugly voice that constantly attempts to undermine and separate you from the world. Leaving behind the swing elements of some of their previous recordings this song is rooted in the alternative contemporary folk genre with a hint of Nordic folk. This lyrical content is far darker and more soul baring than any of their previous songs. Retaining the close-part harmonies, driving rhythms and soulful melodies that they have been known for. Weightless professes a maturity in their song writing, production and performance. Recorded and produced by the awesome David Holmes at Soup Studios at Lightship 95. www.soupstudio.co.uk Lyrics Ankle deep in one inch sleep These shallow shores my soul do keep Beyond the wall a Siren's call No one to hear my silent fall My edges are curling, turning brown I woke up dreaming upside down Fear it came and staked its claim I held my breath In that breath I came undone In that moment I was... In that breath I came undone In that moment I was weightless. Hear that thudding thumping drum My heart it beats, a bloody gun. Past regrets Hang crystal clear Your ugly voice is all I hear My edges are burning, turning black Keep on marching, don't look back Fear it came and left its stain, I held my breath. http://thebeaubowbelles.com https://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/thebeaubowbelles https://www.facebook.com/thebeaubowbelles https://www.instagram.com/thebeaubowbelles https://twitter.com/beaubowbelles The BeauBowBelles are a band who have struggled for 9 years with people being unable to say, spell or remember their name! For the record it is pronounced “bow bow bells” and their fans just know them as The BBBs! Recently they toyed with the idea of changing their name but decided they would rather spend their precious little time together writing songs rather than doing more admin… So, The BBBs first came together in early 2010 as a female vintage 3 part harmony group focusing mainly on cutesy covers as well as a few original songs. Over the past 9 years the band has grown up and evolved into something almost unrecognisable from those early whimsical days. The describe themselves as Swing Folk as their music inhabits both the story telling depth and heart of contemporary English folk with the more bawdy thumping accents of gypsy swing. All sung in beautiful three part harmony and underpinned by their classical music background. Since they first started they’ve released two records in 2013 (To the Moon) and 2015 (A Thing of Reality) but despite fairly regular performances there has been no new releases until now. The last few years has seen some disruption with a line up change (original member Ros Wilks being replaced by Mitch McGugan) as well as a few births along the way. But 2019 brings the release of their first record in 4 years, a series of singles starting with Weightless (01/05/2019). Bertie on Weightless “I think most of us have a sense of that ugly voice that feeds your fears. It’s insidious and sneaky, tricking you into thinking everything it says is real. It’s like being gaslighted by your own thoughts. For me the anxiety has always been about performing. I used to get terrible stage fright and i would obsess about it, getting myself into such a state of terror. I was convinced I was broken, that there was something terribly wrong with me and that it was unavoidable and no one understood. When it was at its worst I would feel disconnected from everything and everyone and beyond help.”
Down The Road Maximal Aerobic Power Mix Official Music Video 2020
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Down The Road Maximal Aerobic Power Mix Official Music Video 2020

Down The Road wasn’t the song we thought we’d be releasing this summer. We’ve never even played it live together! It was recorded at the end of last year and put on the back burner to be finished - edited/produced/mixed at a later date. But then Covid happened and this song just said it all. Currently as a band we are seperated by 1000s of miles and limited by technology and time but we still wanted to have a video with all of us in it. Hope you enjoy! Whilst many peoples’ lives our returning to some sort of normal we have had all our gigs either cancelled or postponed till next year losing us our main revenue and the main reason we make music. The song is available on all the usual platforms but we get a bit more £ from bandcamp so buying from there would be cool for us. ✌🏻 http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road Down The Road was inspired by a personal feeling of loss, separation, grief and desperate hopeful optimism. That personal experience has now become everyone’s experience. https://open.spotify.com/album/0xKXOo7inyi0tYNHGFOysL?si=YK514_kITb-4YuoIU7ka5g http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08B5H52T9/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_icE9EbYKEAVX5 We all need something to look forward to. We miss each other dreadfully. We miss our families dreadfully. We miss playing music together. We miss playing live. Let’s hope we see you all Down The Road soon. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/down-the-road-maximal-aerobic-power-mix-single/1518436531 PS. For those of you who came to us via the folk byways, don’t be too scared! We decided to release this “Anaerobic Power Mix” first because it was just too much fun not to!This is a lyric video for our new single
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