Welcome to the Sync Report, the intersection between independent filmmakers and songwriters, where we host a weekly conversation with award winning filmmakers and leading music industry professionals. Meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores. Building vital relationships and providing real opportunities to our listeners. Listen to indie filmmakers present their latest productions and describe specific scenes as they consider mu ...
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The team will be taking the rest of this month off tend to music, film, and family business. But not to worry, as your hosts Colin O'Donoghue, Rose Ganguzza and Jason P. Rothberg will be back in a few weeks with a new batch of conversations with some of the top talent in film, TV and music just for you.…
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Lili Haydn contributed score to seasons 2 & 3 of the Emmy winning Amazon series Transparent; as well as the films ANITA, The House That Jack Built, DriverX, Broken Kingdom and Oscar winner Freida Mock’s documentary RUTH: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, and Oscar nominee Michele Ohayon’s Netflix documentary Strip Down Rise Up Hear what it was lik…
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From Ilan's first big break, on Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake, to the importance of having a great relationship with the Director and how Ilan starts the composing process we talk through Ilan’s journey in composing and his love for story-telling through music. Ilan has composed music for many award-winning films including Layer Cake, Still Alice, St…
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How was Ben Lee’s second gig as support for Sonic Youth?! Ben Lee’s band Noise Addict were loved by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and the Beastie Boys Mike D and toured with Sebadoh when he was only 16 years old! How the heck did all that happen? Why did he decide to go solo so soon after finding huge success with Noise Addict? What do Mike D and Mo…
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So here we are kicking off season 4 with Dave Rowntree talking music, politics, missions to mars, Mo Farah, Bros, computer programming and much more. When you’re already part of one of the biggest bands in the UK, launching a successful solo career can be daunting, as Dave tells us, but listening to his first solo record he seems to have found his …
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Listen as Dean Lyon talk about making Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, working on the movie Air Force One, Armageddon and more. Hear why Dean found himself in New Zealand and how that led to a meeting with Peter Jackson which led to him setting up his own VFX business in Auckland. Hear how VFX has changed over the years. Listen to Dean as he talks…
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Steve talks us through working on the Oscar winning film Monster with (Director) Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron and what he learned from such a focussed and intense film set. How did that compare to working with Jon Favreau or Taylor Hackford? Listen as Steve tells us the difference for him between working on a big budget movie vs a smaller budg…
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Peter tells us why he originally wanted to look and sound just like Buddy Holly. Hear how hard Peter and the Hermits worked for years before they signed a record deal, and how their situation improved once they had a manager who helped the band evolve and became a more professional operation. Listen to how they toured the country using public trans…
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Peter Noone's career started as Stanley Fairclough in Britain’s biggest soap opera: Coronation Street. Peter was 15 when he became the lead singer of Herman’s Hermits and only 16 when “I’m Into Something Good” reached no.1 in the UK chart. Six months later, they reached the top of the US charts with "Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter,” but w…
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First, we hear about John’s love of music and how learning drums then guitar in his childhood set him up on his music journey, which since 2019 includes singing and playing guitar for his band The Simple Radicals. Find out why, when he was a kid, his parents never came to see his band live and how his band became one of Chicago’s best covers band. …
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Tricia Halloran has music supervised many film and TV for shows including New Amsterdam, Dead To Me, Tully, The Space Between and the upcoming movie Sound of Freedom, starring Mira Sorvino. We also find out about her 15 years hosting the hugely influential indie rock show “Brave New World” on KCRW and working as content editor for the website Ultim…
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Dr Jess Duckworth, aka The Piano Doctor, composes delicate, melodic, reflective piano music that resonated across the world during the covid pandemic and ever since, propelling her album to the top of the UK Classical Charts and securing her a top 20 UK album in early 2022. As a medical doctor, Jess was at the frontline of the UK covid pandemic, bu…
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We hear about Stuart’s life in music, starting out as a pirate radio DJ for Radio Caroline, Stuart talks of his many adventures on sea and land back when commercial radio was illegal. Find out from Stuart which movie gives the most accurate depiction of what those days in pirate radio were like. Listen to Stuart talk about what led to the creation …
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Alec’s work has won countless awards including a coveted Cannes Lions Grand Prix, a Grand Clio, and an Emmy for Outstanding Commercial. He was responsible for the first-ever licensed use of a Prince recording in an advert, produced a full-blown Broadway musical for Skittles on Super Bowl Sunday, nabbed a first-ever Guild of Music Supervisors nomina…
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If you’re a fan of the TV show “Glee”, you’ll have heard more than 18 songs that Tommy produced for ‘Darren Criss and the Warblers’ which culminated in the Top 10 Billboard smash hit acapella version of Teenage Dream. As well as Glee, Tommy’s music has been heard on Beverly Hills 90210, CBS’s The Odd Couple, Netflix’s One Day At A Time and Australi…
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Listen as Michelle talks passionately about the importance of music for filmmakers, why she wants to be part of the film project from early in the filmmaking process and why the right music can make a huge impact on a film’s success. Find out what happens when a filmmaker comes to a music supervisor with the music they want, or what happens when an…
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Hear how Sean managed to learn 23 Smash Mouth songs in three days to join them on a tour of US military bases in the Middle East in 2011 and how he approaches learning other artists' music. In 2014, Sean was burned out, sold his music catalogue and took a few years off writing, recording and touring, only to return a few years later with a differen…
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Brady joined us to talk about his movie career; from child actor in TV and film to film directing. Hear what influenced Brady to pursue his love of film and how he was able to work with some of his filmmaking heroes including Lars Von Trier and Michael Haneke. Brady talks about how he left acting to become a filmmaker, how his own experiences of au…
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Des Shaw is currently working with Tony Defries on a podcast series that explores the history of Main Man and the groundbreaking work Defries did with Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithful and dozens of others in the '70s. Des’s audio production work includes projects with Johnny Depp, Bono, Annie Lennox, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Banderas, Ca…
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Find out how highly Josh rates landing a music sync and how much benefit this can bring to any musician, whatever stage of their career, but also how it is important to be selective. Lucky Man Management & Brushfire signing ALO had their song Strange Days synced in Smallville. As Josh says “…the right piece of music in the right piece of content… c…
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Growing up in a musical environment, Mark was surely destined to work in music. In this week’s podcast episode, he tells us how he started out as a live agent and artist manager in the music industry. Mark talks about the changing landscape of the music industry and how now it incorporates a lot more revenue streams. Hear how he came to be working …
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John Eyres spoke to us about sneaking into the theatre as a kid in Manchester, working with his son Paul Eyres on the film "Fairytale" and employing optimism and British humor when telling tragic stories. John’s son, film producer Paul Eyres proudly recounts seeing his father go from delivering bread for a living to opening a store which would turn…
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Reeve is an award-winning singer, songwriter and actor who is well known for playing Peter Parker / Spiderman on Broadway for three years and more recently for starring as Orpheus in the Tony Award winning musical Hadestown on Broadway. You’ll also have seen him playing Tom Ford in the smash hit movie House of Gucci, and he will be playing Jeff Buc…
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Since 2011 Giovanni has handled the special projects for Sugar Music in the US and promotes their vast catalogue of music to production houses, music supervisors and advertising agencies in LA, New York, Chicago Miami, and Nashville. Hear how Giovanni came to represent Italian superstar operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli, then together they came to be w…
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Based on Dan’s incredible director and producer credits, you’d never guess that he was once an introverted engineering student. From dropping out of school to doing an apprenticeship with film editor Susan Booth, Dan chalks up his success to dumb luck, curiosity and daring to take risks. Dan’s directing credits include Game of Thrones, True Detecti…
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Patrick’s work has been used extensively by Vanity Fair and has been used by all the major film studios. He has shot portraits of many notable celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Steven Spielberg, Jamie Foxx, Nick Jonas, Jennifer Aniston, among others. He has collaborated often with singer Demi Lovato, directing her “Stone Cold” music video and p…
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For the last two decades Jason Nesmith has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most successful TV and film composers. He has been one of the primary composers for “The Ellen Degeneres Show” for over 18 years has worked on “Ellen’s Design Challenge” and continues to work on Little Ellen, Since its launch in 2013, he has composed music for Microsoft Surf…
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Claire Van Kampen is an accomplished composer, arranger, playwright, screenwriter and director.She became the first female musical director with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Claire has been the Director of Theatre Music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre since 1997, where she has created both contemporary and perio…
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Listen to Antonio as he talks about making films, the importance of gaining filmmaking experience by making short films, how to start making feature films, what you need to know to make a film and how important it is to understand everyone’s role on set, among lots of useful information and stories about filmmaking. Listen to Antonio as he talks us…
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Charlotte was only 12 years old when she rose to fame as a classical singer with her first album, “Voice of An Angel,” in 1998, propelling her to the top of the Classical Crossover chart. Since then, she’s released four more studio albums, earned Classical Brit awards, released her first autobiography, had her music licensed into a Ford advertising…
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And just like that we are back, ready to bring you more conversations with incredible creators in the worlds of music, film, TV and media. Get ready to hear about our guest’s journeys, listen to great music, discover new artists and opportunities for music sync. We’ve lined up some incredible guests for Series Two and what better way to begin than …
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Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when three original punks talk about their days of punk, making music at that time and since. We're all about realising dreams! Derwood Andrews began his music career in 1976 as guitarist for Billy Idol’s band Generation X. Since then Derwood has written, played and sung in many different music genres including r…
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In this week’s episode, Get ready for our conversation with the original rock chick; Suzi Quatro. The original female rock bass player, Suzi Q joined The Sync Report, with guest host Tony "Montana" Cardenas to talk about her incredible life and career in music, on stage and on TV. Listen to Suzi talk about life in a musical family, learning bongos,…
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In this week’s episode you can listen to Musician, Producer and Engineer Carmen Rizzo in conversation with Colin O'Donoghue, Rose Ganguzza & Jason P. Rothberg. Hear how Grammy nominated Carmen came to be working with two of the biggest names in the history of music: Michael Jackson and Prince, then listen to him talk about what those experiences we…
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In this episode we talk with multi-instrumentalist, master producer, engineer and songwriter Professor Louie Hurwitz about his life and his astonishing career. He was engineer, producer and performer with American rock band “The Band” for 15 years, but want to hear about Professor Louie’s early career and how he came to be working with The Band, pl…
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This week we talk to composer, conductor, musician and songwriter George Kallis about the beautiful compositions he has created for more than 35 movies, so far, and hear about his creative process. Join us as George tells our listeners how his childhood was full of music and classic old Hollywood movies and how this influenced his own love of music…
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Multi Grammy award winner Steve Vai is hailed by many as the greatest guitarist of all time. He has worked with some of the greatest names in the history of rock music. He is a composer, producer and has just released his tenth solo album; “Inviolate”. Vai spoke to The Sync Report hosts Colin O’ Donoghue, Rose Ganguzza and Jason P Rothberg about …
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Welcome to Episode 8 of The Sync Report Podcast as we review the Best of 2021. Every week we listen to our audience’s submissions for music sync opportunities. In this show, our panel of independent filmmakers and experienced music industry professionals choose their favorite music sync submissions from 2021. Listen to why our panel thinks these ma…
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We spoke to Music Publishing empresario Rob Bozas about growing up in South Africa during apartheid and becoming President of his radical college radio station, that was distinctly anti-apartheid. Rob talks about his first meeting with Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, moving to London, getting his first job in a recording studio and how his musi…
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Welcome to Episode 6 of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest; award-winning film producer Byron A. Martin. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores, build vital relationships and provide real opportunities to our listene…
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The Sync Report Podcast wishes you the happiest of New Year's wishes for 2022. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores, build vital relationships and provide real opportunities to our listeners. Listen to indie filmmakers present…
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Welcome to Episode 5 of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest Danny Saber. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores, build vital relationships and provide real opportunities to our listeners. Listen to indie filmmakers pr…
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Welcome to Episode 4 of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest Craig Ross. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where weekly you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores. Building vital relationships and providing real opportunities to our listeners. Listen to indie fi…
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Welcome to Episode 3 of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest Steve Binder. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where weekly you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores. Building vital relationships and providing real opportunities to our listeners. Listen to indie …
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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where weekly you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores. Building vital relationships and providing real opportunities to our listeners…
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Welcome to the debut episode of The Sync Report Podcast with this week's guest Film Producer, the Godmother of Indie Films, Rose Ganguzza. 2 Sense Music presents The Sync Report, where weekly you will meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on music placement and scores. Building vital relationships and providing…
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Welcome to the Sync Report, the intersection between independent filmmakers and songwriters. Where we host a weekly conversation with award winning filmmakers and leading music industry professionals. Hear the trailer launching The Sync Report, new from 2 Sense Music. Meet industry experts and top level songwriters as we pull the curtain back on mu…
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