Bob Bradley (composer/producer)

Infobox musical artist


Name = Bob Bradley
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Background = non_performing_personnel
Birth_name = Robert Edward Bradley
Alias = A Cuckoo, Inferious
Born = birth date and age|1974|2|05
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Origin = Teeside, England
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Genre = Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Folk, Electronica
Occupation = Composer, Record producer, Song writer, Remixer
Years_active = 1994 to present
Label = V2, BMG, Universal, Le Grand
Associated_acts = Sugababes Gabriella Cilmi the Blue Aeroplanes The House of Love Sweetbox A Cuckoo Inferious
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Bob Bradley is a British composer, producer, singer and songwriter.

Overview

Bob Bradley is an Award winning English composer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He was born in Teeside. He is the director of Organiq Music composition team based in Leeds who are responsible for the soundtracks of most major documentaries made in the North of England. Co-producer & writer of various Sugababes tracks, emerging electronic musician. Also a Singer/Songwriter signed to Le Grand Magistery.

Career

He has amassed many credits over his 20 or so years in the business. Starting as a singer/songwriter, Bob was gigging and touring nightly from the age of 11 with his brother Peter Bradley Junior who later formed the highly credited alternative rock band, Subcircus. Bob was to join Bristol based art rock collective the Blue Aeroplanes where he was described as a seventeen year old whiz kid by the now defunct Melody Maker music magazine. With them he recorded a couple of albums accompanied by much touring.

After departing from the Aeroplanes, Bob went on to have a brief spell with Indie darlings the house of love and recorded an EP with Guy Chadwick under the name the Madonnas. Throughout this time, Bob was active in the London session circuit, playing with many acclaimed artists, musicians and producers. Shortly after this, in 1997 he signed with new indie label V2 Records with his own project Lovebabies. The band featured female vocalist, Jenny Clark. They released their debut single 'Explore' to a lukewarm reception possibly due to its experimental direction. Lovebabies' dark and moody sound drew comparrisons with Sneaker Pimps and Morcheeba. A follow up single was released in early 1998, 'Blue Earth Angel', featuring remixes from Attica Blues and DJ Pulse. A full length album was recorded under the title 'For The Realization Of Zion' which was supposedly a nod to the secrets buried within the Priory of Sion, but due to disappointing sales of the previous singles, this release was withdrawn, although some samplers escaped. The UK may not have taken to Lovebabies but they did spend time in the Australian top 10 and the experience obviously gave Bob a taste for Production and Composition.

It was shortly after this episode that Bob joined the UK production house Xenomania with whom he amassed an impressive CV of pop credits, working with artists such as Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Natalie Imbruglia and most recently Gabriella Cilmi. He was responsible for the opening bass riff on Sugababes hit Red Dress amongst others. During his time with Xenomania, he was offered numerous offers to take on soundtrack work which he eventually agreed to tackle. Since then he has composed music scores for BBC, ITV, C4, Discovery, History channel etc. Bob still does his thing with Xenomania and now resides in Leeds where he can be found in his Studios with the fast growing composition team, Organiq.

elected works

Co-written/produced/played

Gabriella Cilmi 'Lessons to be learned'Island/Universal 2008

Sugababes 'Overload'Island/Universal 2006

Sugababes 'Taller in more ways'Island/Universal 2005

Mania 'Looking for a place'BMG 2004

Sugababes 'Three'Island 2003

Jason Downs 'The Spin 'Jive 2003

Sugababes 'Angels with dirty faces'Island 2002

Lovebabies 'Explore'V2 1997

The Blue Aeroplanes 'Life Model'Beggars Banquet 1994

The Blue Aeroplanes 'Rough Music 'Beggars Banquet 1995

Composed

The Real Dick Turpin - History Channel

Tiger’s Attack - Discovery Channel

Getting Away With Murder - BBC1

Animal 24/7 - BBC1

Adams Guide To The cosmos - BBC2

Yorkshire Ripper : The Hoaxer - BBC1

My Mums Used To Be Men - ITV

MacIntyre’s Big Sting - Ch 5

Real Story : Death of a Policeman - BBC1

Priest Idol - Ch 4

Hypercondriacs - Health Anxiety - Ch 4

Children Of The Miners’ Strike - ITV

The Boy They Call Chucky - ITV

Great British Islam - Ch 4

Murder in Paradise - Ch 4

Written or worked with

Brian Higgins - Cher, Kylie Minogue, Texas

Eg White - Will Young, Adele, James Morrison

Steve Lee - Britney Spears, Will Young

Hayden Bell - The Veronicas, Savage Garden

Tim Powell - Girls Aloud, Sugababes

Nick Coler - Sugababes, Franz Ferdinand, The KLF

Tony McGuiness - Above & Beyond, Madonna

Q - Depeche Mode, Bomb the Bass

Francis Rossi - Status Quo

Mike Pelanconi - Lily Allen, Sinéad O'Connor

Chris James - Craig David

Niara Scarlett - Mutya Buena, Sugababes

References

* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bob+Bradley]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226511/]
*"Angels with Dirty Faces"

External links

* [http://www.organiqmusic.com/ Organiq Music]
* [http://www.legrandmagistery.com/ Le Grand Magistery]
* [http://www.geocities.com/xenomaniasite/ Xenomania Discography]