LAMENT FOR THE INNOCENTS - a project by Mike Dixon and John Theakston Back in May John Theakston and I recorded a song that we had written in an attempt to do something for the plight of the growing number of innocent people who have become displaced, having been embroiled in conflicts not of their making. With the help of Tom Sandars we have produced a video which we have linked to a fundraising page. We simply want to help and we asked Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Witho

I spend most of my work life working with other people's music. The number of times I have had the 'dubious joy' of recording or conducting my own music is very small.....some Titles music for Royal Variety Shows, Choral pieces recorded by the BBC Choir of the Year Chantage, A Suite for String Orchestra, Oboe and Flute which I conducted for a Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2010, Miss World...anyway, you get the picture, compared to how much mus

I have spent the last couple of days starting a project that will be completed some time in the summer - complex new and extremely witty songs sung by some of the West End's finest, written and conceived by Alexander Bermange, whose name alone conjures up a stifled giggle, and who I have known and held up a torch for for a few years now. I produced his The Route To Happiness album with luminaries Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman and Ben Forster singing the 'through sung' musical a