Daniel Pemberton

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Daniel Pemberton has now written the music to over 100 TV shows, composing for everything from full orchestra to a kazoo and drum machine. His work covers everything from award winning documentaries such as Hiroshima (BBC 1) and George Orwell: A Life In Pictures (BBC 2), reality shows such as Hells Kitchen (ITV), Edwardian Country House (C4) and Bad Lads Army (ITV) and dramas such as comedy series Peep Show (C4) and the critically acclaimed Born With Two Mothers (C4),starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo.

Daniel’s advertising work includes VW, Toyota, Ford, Gucci, Kwik Fit, The Guardian, Zanussi and MTV. He also Djs and music directs fashion shows every season for designers such as Boudicca, Vivienne Westwood, Sophie Kokosalaki and Eley Kishimoto.

His recent epic score for the videogame The Movies, created by legendary designer Peter Molyneux OBE, was named best videogame score in the world 2005 by Gamespy.com.

Alongside music Daniel is an established writer who has penned articles for newspapers such as The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, magazines such as I-D, Wired and Esquire and fanzines such as The Idler and Shoreditch Twat. He has just completed a book, Devil’s Dandruff Guide To Nightlife (based on the Guardian column of the same name) with co-writer Neil Boorman. He was also one of the three initial investors behind the four time Olivier award winning ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’.

Daniel's website can be found at www.danielpemberton.com

RECENT SCORES FOR FILM AND TELEVISION

Hiroshima
1 X 90 mins/BBC 1
Suburban Shootout
Comedy series 8 X 25 mins/CH 5
Hells Kitchen – Series 2
14 X 60/90 mins/ ITV 1/ITV 2
The Guantanemo Guidebook
1 X 60 mins/CH4
Blowing Up Paradise
1 X 90 mins/BBC 4/Arte
Monster Moves
3 X 60 mins/Windfall Films/ Five/TLC.
Bad Lads Army – Officer Class
7 part series 9 X 55 mins Twenty Twenty/ITV 1/ITV 2.
That’ll Teach ‘Em Three
5 X 55 mins/ Twenty Twenty/CH4
Wakey Wakey
4 X 55 mins/Twenty Twenty/CH4
The Jonathan King Documentary
1 X 55 mins CH4
Cult Of Love
1 X 55 mins/CH4
Addicted
1 X 55 mins/CH4
Art Safari – Series 2
Bergmann Pictures/BBC4
Celebrity Love Island
Granada/ITV
High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
8 X 30 mins/Tiger Aspect/BBC 3.
The Exorcism - Live
1 X 120 mins/Optomen CH4
Swinging
Title Music Arrangement Five/Paramount/Monkey
Becks Futures Winner Saskia Olde Woldbers
new video installation ‘Trailer’
Born With Two Mothers
1 X 90mins drama/CH4
Hells Kitchen
Major two week reality series 14 X 60/90 mins ITV 1/ITV 2.
Bad Lads Army
9 X 55 mins Twenty Twenty/ ITV 1/ITV 2
That’ll Teach ‘Em Too
6 X 55 mins Twenty Twenty/CH4.
The Return Of The Chef
8 X 55 mins/Optomen/CH 4
Soldier Husband Daughter Dad
8 X 30 mins/ BBC1
Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares
4 X 55 mins/Optomen Productions/CH4
Scream If You Want To Get Off!
8 X 60 mins gameshow ITV 1/ITV 2/Granada
The Heist
3 X 60 mins/CH4
In Search of The Morning Glory
4 X 5 mins/Raw TV/CH4

COMMERCIALS

Kwik Fit – Animation
DDB London
Amanda Smith's Frozen Cakes - 'Love’
BDH TBWA
Crown Paints – The Street
BDH TBWA
Ford Focus Cmax – Silhouette
Ogilvy
Lipton Ice Tea – Don’t Knock It
JWT
Gucci – Timepiece
Gainsbury & Whiting
Dettol
JWT
VW Bollocks
DDB London

FASHION SHOWS

Boudicca
Eley Kishimoto
Eley Kishimoto Ellesse
DJ sets for
Zandra Rhodes
retrospective party
Kate McGary gallery
Lowe Advertising
Agency Cannes Party
Eley Kishimoto
Menswear Paris Party DJ set for
Bally Bond Street
opening party and
Matthew Williamson
V&A Christmas party

VIDEO GAMES

Musical director and composer for videogame
“The Movies”
. PC/ X Box/ Playstation 2/Nintendo Gamecube. Developed by Lionhead Studios. Published by Activision.
French Leave
Optomen/CH 4
SAS - The Real Story
Windfall Films/ CH 4
Men of Iron
Windfall Films/CH 4
George Orwell 'A Life in Pictures'
Wall to Wall/BBC 2
The Trouble with Sleep
BBC 1
That'll Teach Them
Twenty Twenty Television/CH 4
The Hunt for Jill Dando's Murderer
CH 4
Peep Show
Objective Productions/CH 4
Art Safari
Bergmann Pictures/BBC 4
The Edwardian Country House
Wall to Wall/CH 4 (BAFTA/RTS nominated)
Lad's Army
Twenty Twenty Television/ITV (RTS Winner)
SAS - The Iranian Embassy Siege
BBC 2 (BAFTA Winner)
The Real Michael Caine
Diverse Productions/CH 4
Dambusters
Windfall Films/CH 5 (RTS Winner)
The Story of a £10 Note
Touch Productions/BBC 2
Harem
Paladin/CH 4
The Shoreditch Twat TV Show
Talkback/CH 4 - music and comedy script writing Special Mention award at The Golden Rose of Montreux Festival)
The Indian Hotlist
Ideal World Productions/ CH 4
Bodyworlds: Prof Gunther Von Hagen's Autopsy
CH 4 (RTS Winner)
Lost
15 part series - Windfall Films/CH 4
Commando
4 x 60' Windfall Films/CH 4
The Secret Life of the Office
Talkback Productions/BBC2
Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
Diverse Productions/CH 4
The Real Edward VII
Diverse Productions/CH 4
Anthony and Cleopatra
Wall to Wall/CH 4
The King of Communism
Little Bird Productions/BBC
Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner
Avalon/ITV
Escape from Colditz
Windfall Films/CH 4
In the wild with Julia Roberts
Tigress Productions/USA - PBS
The Gambler
Diverse Productions/CH 4
A Very British Murder - Killing Christine
Soul Purpose Productions/CH 4
Great Bank Robberies
Seventh Art Productions/ITV
The Real Nostradamus
Roger Bolton Productions/CH 4
Affairs of the Heart/Secrets and Lines
Blast! Productions - CH 4