Welcome to Dancing Bear

Dancing Bear is a company committed to good communications - communication through music, communication through words.

Specialising in original composition and copy on the back of 30 years of experience in the advertising, media and entertainment industries, we can bring fresh ideas and high production values to your messages.

All our work is written and produced for each specific client; we do not use off the shelf solutions that only "almost" do the job. Please feel free to listen to our show reels and browse through the site to find out more about our services and our way of working.

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"It's fresh ideas that keep you ahead of your competitors,
and Dancing Bear gives you just that
"
Rob McLaggan, Global Radio

Music for a Great Short Film PDF Print E-mail

This year a friend of mine has entered his film Bumblin' and has very kindly asked me to compose the music. It is the sad tale of two idiots who accidently flatten a bee with a can of larger, only to suffer the consequences as the bee takes its sweet and commical revenge.

Lee Price, the film maker manages to make these short films for tiny budgets. This one undercut last years entry by ten pounds, makign the budget an eye watering FORTY POUNDS! Despite this, the films are sharp and comical and well made, and I had great fun composing a completely over-the-top score to it.

So, click here and GO AND VOTE FOR IT!

You will need to register. And you should check out the other entries too as they get uploaded - there is a lot of great talent out there!

 
Wow. this is fun! PDF Print E-mail

A couple of really nice, fun stuff going on at the moment.

On the jingle front I have had some interesting challenges. Standing out the most were jingles forĀ  City Fencing and Park and Ride for Leicestershire Council - yeah, councils do some good stuff from time to time! More on those in a minute.

Other stuff includes some of my music will be appearing on the game Wurm Online from next monday, and I have also been putting together some atmopheres for forests, lakes, mines and so on to give the game a bit of a lift.

Talking of games, I am also starting to look at putting together my own MMO. Tentatively called Foundation this will be a very long project indeed, but also very interesting. More on that as time goes on.

Back on the music front, I have been asked by a runner up at last Years Virgin Media Shorts film competition to write the music for this years entry - a very nice honour, and I am working on that now. Also writing some middle eastern music for Crimson Cats, a company that records spoken word CDs and run by a long time client of mine - we worked together on some Sherlock Holmes dramas back in the ... well, a long, long time ago!

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What is the Collective Noun for Jingles? PDF Print E-mail

With a nice little trickle of work coming through in December and January, I was wondering what you would call a bunch of jingles. Herd doesn't do it for me, nor does Pride, though I am proud of them, of course. Perhaps a Jangle of Jingles? Bucket of Jingles? Well, whatever you want to call them, here is a right little gaggle of them!

Click the read more link to, well, read more and hear the new batch!

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New Showreels PDF Print E-mail

To compliment the new site I have revisited my main ad show reels and also added one for the work I have been doing on the MMORPG game Wurm Online.

The two new jingle show reels, Up Beat and Laid Back, each contain excerpts from around 20 of my jingles. I have tried to not just show the range of work I have done in recent times, but hopefully have given enough variation to get you thinking about what you would like for your next project.

If you want to hear jingles in their entirety, the Recent Jingles link now goes to a page where you can play examples directly, rather than having to go to a details page. As this is rather long it may take a few moments to load.

The new show reels can be heard using the flash player in the left column, or downloaded where shown. Hope you love them!

 
Tart up the Site Time PDF Print E-mail

There comes a time when you just got to have a change. For some it is dumping their entire wardrobe and starting afresh (bet that one has changed in the current economic climate), for others it is getting a new boss, or just repainting the old one.

And me? Well, I get fed up of my websites!

The best one I did for the jingles was probably my first. But since I cant find it, that has kind of ended that argument. My next couple weren't too bad (the art deco radio had something going for it). But my last one was just plain dull. I had this stupid idea that I was too old for silly. And that was silly in itself.

So here is my latest version. Subtle, huh?

 
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