A Mighty Heart

The Michael Winterbottom film _A Mighty Heart_ (starring one Angelina Jolie) is currently out at the cinemas, with the fabulous score my Harry Escott and Molly Nyman, that yours truly did the orchestration for. This will be my first official credit on the big screen (yay!), and I am really excited to be part of such a great project.

Otherwise, am hectic with fairly domestic things at the moment - uni admin stuff, helping various people move house and doing the odd bit of composition. Am up to Manchester for the weeked (yet more driving) to help my brother Dave move into his fab new pad, and will be good to spend some time with him, as he is a complete dude.

More work...

Life's just got hectic again. Seems to be the way of things where everything comes at once, and then nothing... currently working on a orchestration gig (sorry to say this again, but 'more on this to come'), where I've just returned from a day in London, and off, briefly for a friends birthday, then straight back to London today to play for a wedding at the fantastic Le Meridien Hotel in Picadilly, back to Southampton tonight to do some uni work tomorrow, then back to London Sunday night to continue on the orchestration. I also have a couple of other irons in the fire, and will hopefully say more if and whether they come to fruition.

imdb profile

I have acheived a (modest) ambition of mine recently - I am now one of the many individuals to work in film and TV to have some imdb (international movie database) listings! (www.imdb.com). Hurrah. I am Andrew Fisher (V) for composing credits as well as Andrew Fisher (VI) ('music department' for orchestration stuff). There seem to be ar least two other 'Andrew Fisher's listed... it's clearly a popular name to have...

Oooh Devon is a place on earth

I have just returned from four delightful days in Devon with two of my erstwhile collaborators Jimbo Gillingham and Rupes Waring for a "writing week". We are working on a new musical (I will write that annoying phrase 'more on this to come'), and got off to a good start: I have written about 16 tunes some of which I'm pretty happy with, and the boys were wrangling with story and plot structure. Jimbo was a most generous host (and a really phenomenal cook) and his folks' beautiful home has one of the world's best views looking across Dartmoor National Park. It was a fantastic time, good to be writing again, and great to experience the general bonhomie and generous and genial Devonian hospitality. My thanks to all Gillingha (I'm assuming this is the collective noun....)

I have returned to find myself with several musical irons in the fire (forgive the stretched metaphor): pitches and proposals I think I will elaborate as and if they develop. Some are quite exciting! Otherwise I'm cranking up for the new term at Southampton Uni....