John Broomhall - Audio Director & Consultant

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15 May 07 - work is underway on music jingles for a MAJOR mutliple award winning PC & console franchise.

07 May 07 - recently lectured at Hull University and currently preparing for a lecture at The Royal College Of Music.

05 May 07 - Ruby Turner has released a 'Live at Ronnie Scott's' album featuring the song 'I Will Hold On' which John Broomhall co-wrote with her.

03 May 07 - recently finished cut scene management work on major PS3 title, Heavenly Sword featuring such esteemed and diverse talent as Andy Serkis and Nitin Sawhney.

01 May 07 - also recently finished music & sound prototyping work for a new handheld console title.

Continued involvement in EIEF and Develop conferences for 2007.

Working for Jason Della Roca on the IGDA awards 2006 - an honour as ever.

Currently working for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe on a huge project - details to follow.

Attended first Videogames Live in the UK - excellent night. TT and JW did a GREAT job. To bed at 5am after superb all-night conversation with Jack Wall, Richard Jaques, Kenny Young and others.

Sound effects production and music supervision - three unannounced titles for PS2 and PSP.

After a successful first year of Bath Spa University's Game Audio module which Broomhall Projects Ltd consulted on and helped devise and set up, re-visited again this year (Yr2) for three lectures.

Pre-production work for an original third party developed Wii title.

Excellent weekend at Game City in Nottingham introducing good friend Richard Jaques's brilliant concert of Sega music in St Mary's Church, The Lace Market.

Have been playing hammond for Keith Thompson & Strange Brew at a series of blues festivals over the summer. Great band - including the awesome Climax Blues Band's rhythm section.

Completed work on Go! Sudoku with Allister Brimble.

B-Boy nominated for a BAFTA - Best Soundtrack. Those long hours paid off! Respect to Sergio et al.

Took part in Channel 4's Ideas Factory event on videogames which took place in the heart of Belfast. Managed to find time for a Guinness in The Crown.

Completed work as Audio Director on B-Boy. Great developer, great people, great talent - will never forget those sessions at Air Studios with Crazy Legs and working on the tunes with Hooch.

Continuing service on the BAFTA Video Games Committee and chaired the Best Audio and Best Original Music awards.

Asked to join the Develop Conference advisory board and subsequently chaired the audio track with special guest Marty O'Donnell.

Spoke at Sounds Subliminal event in London.

Completed work on the DVD game of the Dreamworks movie Over The Hedge - all original music composition & audio tracklaying.

Completed movie tracklaying for Wallace & Gromit DVD game - a really fun project.

I Will Hold On - song co-write with soul diva Ruby Turner, now recorded and released on her album So Amazing. Ruby is SO amazing.

Moderated a session on music for games at the Midem music conference in Cannes.

Songwriting with Charles Pollock & Gillian Broomhall for artist Natalie Powers.

Presented, introduced & moderated three sessions on music in videogames at this year's MusicWorks conference - including a keynote from Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive Of Music for Electronic Arts together with sessions on Sony's groundbreaking SingStar game and the 'ripped-up' soundtrack of Driv3r - click here for more.

Consulting to the renowned movie producer Nik Powell at The National Film & Television School.

Currently consulting to three major videogame titles.

Chairing this year's BAFTA's two Game Audio Awards.

Monthly audio column for highly respected develop magazine.

Work on Football Manager 2005 completed.

Production work completed on Keith Thompson's INDEPENDENCE. "Superb, stylish, contemporary cross-over blues/soul".

Invited to join Skillset's working group on roles and employment in the videogame industry - click here for more.

Consultancy to DreamForge Software.

Organised and chaired the one day audio track at this year's European Developers Forum held at London's ExCel centre - click here for more.

Work completed on a Guinness World Records DVD project for Zoo Digital with BPL providing all music and sound design components.

BPL provided sound effects for Dance UK XL for BigBen Interactive - click here for more.

Continuing service on the Edinburgh International Games Festival steering committee, John produced this year's music session - a keynote by Worldwide Executive of Music for Electronic Arts, Steve Schnur - click here for more.

BPL provided original music content - including the main theme - for Chris Sawyer's new Locomotion game, published by Atari - click here for more.

Audio Management for the Pop Idol/American Idol game - work included design integration, development tools & pipelines, 40 licensed songs, 5 re-record teams, 6 Nashville vocalists & US Vocal Producer, 6 UK vocalists & UK Vocal Producer, backing vocal team, celebrity voices & sound effects design - click here for more.

Lectures at Hull & Bath Spa Universities.

Produced & chaired BAFTA's Scoring Interactive Music For Videogames and Translating TV IP To Videogames sessions at the recent BAFTA Interactive Festival.

Interviewed Bond Composer, David Arnold before a live audience of 200 music biz delegates as well as running two sessions on the state-of-the-art and business of music in games at MusicWorks 2003.

Produced the music session at the inaugaral Edinburgh International Games Festival featuring Hollywood film composer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Barrington Pheloung, James Hannigan and Professor Stephen Deutsch.