MALCOLM airs on Channel4 tonight as part of the IRIS PRIZE Internal Conflict programme of short films, and is available to stream right now! You can watch it HERE. I loved creating the score for this wonderful short, and what a thrill to hear my own music on TV! Congrats as always to writer/director Caleb J Roberts.

MALCOLM has been selected as one of the 15 UK films shortlisted for the IRIS PRIZE BEST OF BRITISH AWARD 2023! As part of this prestigious selection, MALCOLM will air on CHANNEL 4/FILM 4 at the end of the year. Will keep you posted once we have the broadcast date.

Brilliant to see MALCOLM will have its premiere at GALWAY FILM FLEADH next month! Stay tuned for more MALCOLM news!

Great news yesterday for WHEN IT RAINS, which took home the MARILYN HYNDMAN AWARD at DOCS IRELAND. When It Rains is a short documentary film about the skateboarding community in Carrickfergus, directed by Daniel Ritchie, produced by Joanna McClurg, supported by Northern Ireland Screen. This was my first time scoring a documentary, loved working on this wonderful story of an amazing community. Congratulations to them all!

This weekend I delivered my score for MALCOLM, a short film written/directed by Caleb J Roberts, produced by Callum Harrison for OUT OF ORBIT FILMS, supported by Northern Ireland Screen and BFI.

HOMEBIRD, the first short film I scored for Caleb, is still available to watch on ALL4. It has been fantastic to see the film doing so well as it travels around the film festival world, and I’m thrilled to have been asked to score MALCOLM too. More details to follow…..

Sometimes I’m reminded of the John Peel Sessions I recorded in the 1990s, and I still can’t quite believe it happened. So, it was a real treat to reminisce with Mark Gordon about our trips to Maida Vale Studios with Tunic, for this BBC Radio documentary. You can hear our stories alongside the likes of Ash, Therapy, and The Undertones of course, on BBC Radio Ulster this weekend, and on BBC Sounds now!

Over the moon to be part of HEN HOOSE, an incredible female / non-binary songwriting collective. The full line-up for Hen Hoose Round II was announced today, all made possible due to funding from Creative Scotland and an amazing christmas present last year from Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon! So grateful to Tamara and the team for having me on board. Can’t wait to share the music with you!

HOMEBIRD, winner of BEST DEBUT IRISH SHORT FICTION at GALWAY FILM FLEADH this year, was screened on Channel4 last week and is available to watch on demand HERE! Thrilled to hear one of my short film scores on TV!

Set against the backdrop of the Northern Irish coast, HOMEBIRD explores the relationship between an emotionally-reclusive father struggling to re-connect with his estranged gay son during a night at the seafront amusements. HOMEBIRD was written and directed by Caleb J Roberts and produced by Callum Harrison for Out of Orbit Films.

This week I delivered my score for NEWBIE, a short film about a young social worker on her first day, coming to terms with the reality of her impossible job. Newbie was written and directed by Emma Williamson, produced by Mount Wolff Films, supported by Northern Ireland Screen. I loved working with Emma again, this is the second short film I’ve scored for her, she is a brilliant collaborator and a joy to work with!

I’m pleased to report I’ve completed the score to WHEN IT RAINS, a short documentary film about the skateboarding community in Carrickfergus, directed by Daniel Ritchie, produced by Joanna McClurg, supported by Northern Ireland Screen. Special thanks to sound recordist Lauren Sleith for supplying some fun field recordings for me to play with, and to editor Lauren O’Connor for this still.

HOMEBIRD has won BEST DEBUT IRISH SHORT FICTION at the GALWAY FILM FLEADH this evening! Congratulations to Caleb J Roberts, Callum Harrison and all the team!

Amazing news! HOMEBIRD, written and directed by the wonderful Caleb J Roberts, produced by Callum Harrison for Out of Orbit Films, will screen at the GALWAY FILM FLEADH this July. I’m so proud to have composed the score to this film. Screening details are HERE.

Thrilled to have been selected as one of the WOMEN IN FILM & TV 2022 mentees! So looking forward to getting to know my fellow mentees in Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales, as well as my amazing composer mentor. More news on this soon!

In October last year I was invited to take part in the first Soft Gut Song Camp. This took place over 2 days at the amazing Analogue Catalogue Recording Studios in Northern Ireland. Great to meet these folks in real life and to write some cool songs with them. Applications are open now for the next one, get involved!

EDINBURGH! After what seems like an eternity (well, since Christmas 2018), I’ll be back DJing in Edinburgh next month, thanks to EVOL’s 30th birthday celebrations. I spent a good part of my teens on the EVOL dancefloor, and many fun nights DJing there. Looking forward to being reunited with old friends and oh my goodness there will be dancing.

Friday 8th October, The French Quarter @ The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 8pm.

Well, it’s been a while, but really looking forward to DJing at Stendhal Festival in Ireland this weekend. We (SKIBUNNY DJs) will be on FRIDAY at 11.30pm till late. Expect ASH after-party vibes and hits, hits, hits!

Pleased to report I’ve just completed the score for “HOMEBIRD”, a short film written & directed by Caleb J Roberts, produced by Callum Harrison with Out of Orbit Films, supported by NI Screen and Outburst Arts. The film stars James Doran and Peter Young, captured here in this beautiful still by Nathan Magee. More details to follow…

Some of you may remember I took part in a songwriting camp in Nashville a couple of years ago, organised by the UK Dept of International Trade (D.I.T) Since the Nashville & LA camps could not go ahead last year, the good people at D.I.T, Distiller Music and Ostereo put together a virtual camp instead, running from Sunday 28th March to Thursday 1st April. I spent 5 days writing with amazing writers from LA, Nashville, New York, Glasgow and London. 5 songs in 5 days, it was an absolute blast! Hopefully you will hear some of these songs very soon.

Thanks to Women in CTRL for having me on their discussion panel this week, such a great chat with Reevah, Rosie Bans, LOTOS Music, MC Soom T, and Iona Fyfe, hosted by Claire Rose. Hoping it won’t be too long before we can meet in person and continue the conversation.

Thanks to Safe in Sound NI and The Sunflower Pub in Belfast for inviting me to take part in this great discussion panel for Independent Venue Week. You can watch the whole thing over…. HERE! It was so lovely to chat to Sasha Samara, Travi the Native, Katie Richardson and Aine Cronin-McCartney. Good humans one and all.

I have just completed the score for “NOAH” - a short film written & directed by Emma Williamson, produced by Mount Wolff Films, and funded by NI Screen. More details soon.

I miss DJing so much, I miss hanging out with old friends, making new friends, talking about music, and the general joy of being in a room full of people listening to the same tunes! With that in mind, I’ll be hosting a show on The 343 Radio reasonably regularly. Here’s show #1 which was broadcast Saturday 31st October. Follow me on Instagram or Twitter for ongoing show news! @tanyamellotte

Happy to report I have completed my first film score. “DEFROST” is a short film directed by Meghan Mc Ardle, written by Laurence Doherty, produced by Poli Productions, Sarah McCaffrey, Aideen Hand, funded by Northern Ireland Screen and BFI. More details soon!

Have you caught up with Season 3 of Killing Eve? Tip top score/soundtrack as ever thanks to team Holmes / Ciancia / Unloved / Grieves. Very cool to hear one of my co-writes (“I Could Tell You But I’d Have to Kill”) in episode 4!

Thanks to NATALIE MCCOOL for inviting me to take part in her podcast “McCool & the Gang”. Had a great chat with Natalie along with my old pal Mark Gordon from Score Draw Music. The podcast is available on iTunes & Spotify podcasts, and you can listen HERE. Also this month I contributed some album & podcast recommendations to Sheridan Tongue’s blog, which you can read HERE. Happy listening!

Happy to have contributed backing vocals to the new album from Edinburgh band PILOTCAN, have a listen! For those of you that don’t know already, that’s my brother Keiron on lead vocals and guitar. Go team!

Some good news in the midst of all the chaos… Very happy to be one of the first recipients of the PRS FOUNDATION HITMAKER FUND! This groundbreaking new fund supports songwriters and producers working behind the scenes. I am so thankful for this encouragement and support! Read more about the fund here.

Had a great conversation with these chaps at the PRS For Music panel at Output Belfast today, thanks so much for having me! Here I am with Jamie Gilmour (Rightsbridge), Stuart Fleming (PRS For Music) and Cormac Neeson (Songwriter). Saw lots of great bands at the showcases afterwards too, such a great day!

Thanks to PRS FOR MUSIC for inviting me to take part in their panel at OUTPUT BELFAST next month:

“PRS For Music presents - But it IS a real job - The Economics of a Songwriter”. Looking forward to discussing this with other speakers Jamie Gilmour (Rightsbridge), Stuart Fleming (PRS For Music), and Cormac Neeson (The Answer/Co-Writer). Registration is FREE and open now. See you there!

Last December SKIBUNNY (myself & Mark Gordon) recorded a version of “O Come Emmanuel” for BBC Radio Ulster’s ATL Carol Service. Thought you might enjoy a listen, it’s free to download too. Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas, see you on the other side.

Huge thanks to the Musicians’ Hearing Health Scheme for these custom made earplugs. This fantastic scheme offers bespoke earplugs, full hearing check, and specialist advice at just £40. Musician pals please see Hear For Musicians for details.👂🎶 👍

Heavenly Recordings and Sid Gentle Films will release the original soundtracks for “Killing Eve” Seasons 1 and 2 on 13 December 2019. Includes download and booklet, limited ‘blood’ splatter coloured vinyl edition. Pre-order HERE!

Check out these exclusive mixes by David Holmes of the Killing Eve soundtracks -
KILLING EVE - The soundtrack, Season 1 featuring 2 of my co-writes with Unloved “When a woman is around” and “I could tell you…”
KILLING EVE - The soundtrack, Season 2 featuring 2 of my co-writes with Unloved “I could tell you…” and “Damned”

I was invited by Steve McCann to take part in the Belfast leg of the Bert Jansch “Around the world in 80 plays” project. I performed a few songs acoustically using the Yamaha which is travelling the globe as we speak, you can read more about the project here.

I’ve just returned from a fantastic four weeks in the US, which began with a songwriting camp in NASHVILLE organised by the UK Dept of International Trade. I left with 7 songs co-written with US and other UK writers, and so many amazing memories!

Listen again on BBC iplayer
How the punk scene of Northern Ireland found an ally in John Peel, with the music of the period inspiring future generations of noise makers who themselves went on to gain support from the iconic broadcaster. Hosted by BBC producer and Undertones bass player Mickey Bradley with Terri Hooley (founder of Good Vibrations record label), Brian Young (former member of Rudi), Tanya Mellotte (former member of Tunic) and Andy Cairns (member of Therapy?)