---=== GUY FARLEY ===--- The Unofficial Website

 News

Biography

Filmography

Discography

Interview

Gallery

Audio

Guestbook

Links

 

June 2, 2010 / 11:20 PM (CET) 
Glorioso for Ironclad featuring Dufay Collective

New exclusive piece has been added to the audio section. "Glorioso for Ironclad featuring the Dufay Collective" offers rare opportunity to hear the piece submitted for movie IRONCLAD, which will be (according to unconfirmed news) scored by Lorne Balfe, who has been working with Hans Zimmer on some of his recent projects including videogame Modern Warfare 2, as well as programming and writing additional music for movies such as Angels and Demons, The Dark Knight and Madagaskar 2. Glorioso for Ironclad is performed by choir Dufay Collective, which specialises in early music and you can read more about this group on their official website.

Also added is two more videos to adverts audio section: Recent O2 Broadband commercial The Niggles and The Narks with music composed and arranged by Christopher Slaski (Guy Farley worked as music producer) and Warburton's We Care advert featuring Guy Farley's arrangements of Jerry Goldsmith's Air Force One Theme.

The credits shared by Guy Farley and Christopher Slaski were also corrected.

May 25, 2010 / 10:20 PM (CET) 
New videointerview now available - Carling sessions

While recording his short orchestral scores for two CARLING commercials last October, Guy Farley was interviewed and the sessions filmed. The video featuring this interview and various shots from the recording sessions at Air Lyndhurst Hall is finally available for you to watch in the Interview section or below.
The video was commissioned and edited for promotional purposes of the composer by Music Sales, which publishes Guy Farley's scores. The video shouldn't be shared and re-uploaded anywhere without prior consent.
Feel free to link to this site and enjoy this rare opportunity to watch Guy Farley conducting London musicians recording one of his unreleased works... Don't forget that you can also listen to clips from both CARLING commercials in recently started audio section Vol 2 featuring more music Guy Farley composed for numerous commercials and adverts or songs he worked on as a composer and music producer...

May 18, 2010 / 11:20 PM (CET) 
FIRST TIME playing in UK, theme sample online

Second collaboration between director Adam Wimpenny and Guy Farley, FIRST TIME, has already been released in selected UK theatres, The film (running approximately 7 minutes) is getting a small theatrical release at a number of cinemas around the country, including Leister Square.
The first sample from this jazzy score, recorded at Sphere Studios, has just been added to audio section.
It's playing ahead of THE BAD LIEUTENANT with Nicholas Cage as of this Friday and has been very well received from the cinema chains. Please see the list of cinemas below.

·         Empire, Leicester Square
·         Odeon, Covent Garden
·         Cineworld, Fulham Road
·         Ritzy, Brixton
·         Picture House, Greenwich
·         Phoenix, Oxford

 May 06, 2010 / 08:30 PM (CET) 
New sub-section featuring more audio samples online

Some of the visitors might have already noticed there is new link in the Filmography section that leads to various audio and video samples and links associated with non-film related projects Guy Farley has been working on during past few months. You can listen to not only several commercials including the theme for MARKS AND SPENCER CHRISTMAS 2009 CAMPAIGN but also new music composed for Orlov family saga, aka COMPARE THE MEERKAT ads.
This page also features various songs Guy Farley worked on not only as a composer but also producer working with artists such as Sugababes or Cassandra Fox. There is also a few film-related songs available that were composed for movies such TO WALK WITH LIONS, SECOND STAR TO THE LEFT or DARKNESS FALLS and which are available here for the very first time. Also available is Guy Farley's new arrangements of Jerry Goldsmith's AIR FORCE ONE theme recorded in Abbey Road Studios with 70-piece orchestra for Warburtons.
Enjoy and don't forget to mention in the Guestbook if you would like to hear more... 

April 18, 2010 / 01:10 PM (CET) 
COMPARE THE MEERKAT Pt II Battle of Fearlessness

With recent decrease in UK film production, Guy Farley has been working mostly on various commercials during past 6 months. Just a few days ago the latest Meerkat special was released featuring all new music from Guy Farley. You can watch second part in the Orlov family saga - aka THE BATTLE OF FEARLESSNESS  here. His recent credits also include:
- new arrangement of Jerry Goldsmith's AIR FORCE ONE theme (recorded with 70 piece orchestra at Abbey Road) for BBC division Warburtons. Currently on UK TV and Cinemas.
- new arrangement of "He's a Tramp" recorded for Walt Disney with singer Eliza Doolittle to be released later this year.
- working on the new song with Paloma Faith (and producer Craig Dodds) for her new album.

In the meantime there is a couple film projects still being discussed but none of them have been confirmed yet with only one exception - new short movie from Roar director Adam Wimpenny: FIRST TIME. 

January 16, 2010 / 10:40 AM (CET) 
CARLING and MEERKAT adds samples now online

During last few months Guy Farley was focusing more on scoring short adds for CARLING and COMPARE THE MEERKAT campaigns. You can watch successful commercial 'The Journey of Courageousness' here. The theme used was originally intended as the theme for 1999's WALK WITH LIONS but wasn't used. It was recorded last year as one of the three CARLING commercials but only two of them were finished and this theme therefore found its place in COMPARE THE MEERKAT commercials. Unfortunatelly due to time limitations the THE JOURNEY OF COURAGEOUSNESS wasn't recorded with the live orchestra but "only" studio samples. The music was composed by Guy Farley and produced by composer Christopher Slaski. On the other hand, Guy Farley also produced music for MARKS AND SPENCER Christmas commercials, which was composed by Christopher Slaski.

There are some new film projects currently being discussed but none of them has been confirmed yet. In the meantimne ROAR is getting released on the DVD and you can watch the trailer (featuring Guy Farley's music from the movie) below:

 

November 21, 2009 / 6:40 PM (CET) 
FLIRTING CLUB finished, CARLING in the theatres

Guy Farley recently completed his score for Alex Jovy's upcoming comedy THE FLIRTING CLUB. The film is currently awating cast and crew screening at Pinewood Studios. Soundtrack album is already being discussed. No label has been announced yet as the film itself has no release date set so far.

Following project, TRIBES OF OCTOBER, is getting delayed and Guy won´t start working on the score until next year. In the meantime UK fans can already enjoy three recently completed CARLING commercials in UK cinemas and the visitors of this website can check two photos from the sessions in slightly updated gallery. The commercials and their scores are inspired by some major films and their music (Lawrence of Arabia, John Barry-like romance). The clips are coming later as well as samples from THE FLIRTING CLUB.

October 7, 2009 / 8:40 PM (CET) 
CARLING commercials with music by Guy Farley

Guy Farley will be at Air Lyndhurst Hall in London tomorrow to record his score for two new Carling commercials in "You know who your mates are" series. His short and epic score in cinematic style, orchestrated by Andrew Pearce, will be performed by sixty piece orchestra and whole session should be properly documented by a camera crew. To give you some insight about the style and scope of Carling's "You know who your mates are" commercials, you can watch previous two from this series on YouTube here and here.

In the meantime Guy is currently finishing his score for upcoming THE FLIRTING CLUB, which will feature numberous exotic and non-traditional instruments. No release date of the movie has been set so far and it's too early to tell if the score will be available commercially. At least few samples should be available on this website as soon as the score is recorded and mixed. Stay tunned for more details re The Flirting Club and two Carling commercials.

September 25, 2009 / 11:30 AM (CET) 
KNIFE EDGE CD from MovieScore Media

KNIFE EDGE original motion picture score will be released by MovieScore Media on October 13 shortly before UK DVD release of the movie scheduled on October 19th. Pre-order links coming as soon as they are available. So far, feel free to listen to three samples available in the audio section and check the tracklist included in the discography. The description of the score from MovieScore Media's website follows:

"We have released several of Guy Farley's gorgeous scores before (Land of the Blind, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The Flock), but our new one is probably our best - and possibly Guy's finest film score to date. The orchestral score for Anthony Hickox thriller Knife Edge, starring Joan Plowright, Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press, Jamie Harris and Tamsin Egerton, is an affectionate hommage to the classic genre film scores of the 1970s: you will hear influences of John Barry in the wonderful love theme, of Jerry Goldsmith in the atmospheric horror writing and of Bernard Herrmann in the tense suspense music and title theme. In our opinion, this is a score that is a must-have for any fan of old-school film music at its best - the difference being that it is actually written for a new film! Our release of the CD co-incides with the UK DVD release of the film on October 19."

September 20, 2009 / 11:30 AM (CET) 
TSOTSI samples online, L.A. signing cancelled

Due to his work on upcoming british comedy THE FLIRTING CLUB, Guy Farley won't be able to attended planned signing at Dark Del scheduled for September 22nd. The event will still continue with director/writter John Harrison who will be signing BOOK OF BLOOD CDs, DVDs and BDs. You can still get your CD signed by the director and Guy Farley if you place your order through La-La Land's website.

In the meantime you can finally listen to four cues from unused score for TSOTSI in the audio section. Here is what Guy Farley said about his music and the whole situation around this movie:
"This was my re-score for the producers of the movie and was not part of the commercial release of the film where the first score was used. I'm not sure if you know the full story but in very simple terms the director chose his composers to score the film and fiercely stood by this score. I was commissioned by the producers to write a new score which they attempted to make final but after Tsotsi starting winning awards with the original music there was no way my score was going to have a chance, especially without the directors support. In fact he never heard my score."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

© 2008 Petr Kocanda. Content of this site is compiled from various sources available on the Internet and is made for promotional purposes
of the composer only. If you have any updates, please, don't hesitate to contact me. This website was designed in PageBreeze 4.0b.