Some Pathé News style ads, specially produced for the VE Day 75th anniversary
Delighted to have voiced these beautifully produced Pathé News style ads for Tesco Mobile with Bauer Media as part of their #AbsoluteRadio40s celebrations for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Give 'em a listen over a cuppa.
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New character showreel. Take a listen.
Here's my brand new, hot-off-the-press character showreel. It's a smattering of types of character voices but is by no means definitive. I love to create characters by changing pitch, pace, tone, accent, vocal quirks. The task is to create a fully imagined personality in just a few syllables. I often…
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A hotpot of Northern reads
I'm a proud, passionate northerner. I was born in the north and I live in the north. Cut me, and I bleed Manchester caviar. But for my work, my natural flat vowels are oft shunned in favour of Estuary English. One customer didn't even realise I was from Manchester!…
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A selection of Christmas characters
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In the world of the pro voiceover, it's Christmas all year round to be honest. I did my first Christmas ad for 2016 in the first week of January. It's always Christmas in commercial-land. I was asked…
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Have a listen to my brand new showreel
It dawned on me last week that I haven't done a new showreel for...well, let's just say quite some time. Getcha ears around this one. It's a mashup of some of the voices I've been asked to do lately. All lovingly produced by the brilliant…
[Read more]Americana – Marilyn versus Twin Peaks
I got a call from a producer. "Can you sound sexy?" "Do bears sit in the woods?" I giggled. "It's shit." "I'm sorry?" "The bears in the woods. Never mind. Can you sound like Marilyn Monroe?" "Breathy, sexy, lots of cleavage...?" "Yes. And American. You've got to sound American." "No…
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