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July 09, 2022 / 21:37
(CET) Guy Farley has reunited with Tim Lewiston
(THE HOT POTATO) scoring director's second feature THERE'S
ALWAYS HOPE. Set in Portugal and UK, the film stars Colm
Meaney, Kate Ashfield and John Light. ‘There is Always Hope’
is a comedy drama in which a woman travels to Portugal in an
attempt to orchestrate a reconciliation between her parents.
Successful author, Jonathan Stack, has been so obsessed with
trying to pen his hit novel, he’s allowed his marriage to
breakdown to the point where she announces she’s now leaving
him.. Jonathan leaves the family home in Stratford Upon Avon
and drives to the family villa in Portugal. Can the daughter
successully bring the two back together. No release dtate has
been announced so far - the movie
has been only
shown at various festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. Stay
tuned for more details soon...
May 01,
2021 / 18:57 (CET) KeepMoving Records
has released Guy Farley's score for SILVER SKATES last month.
The edition, which also features roughly 30 minutes of
previous unreleased music, is available as a 2-CD set limited
to 3000 copies only. The CD can be ordered from KeepMoving Records
. In other
news Guy Farley has recently recorded his score for THERE'S ALWAYS
HOPE at Abbey Road Studios.
November 30,
2020 / 17:35 (CET)
MovieScore Media will release Guy Farley's
score for Russian romantic drama SILVER SKATES on December 18th.
CD edition is also in the works. So far no specific
release date has been announced.
October 21,
2020 / 20:35 (CET)
Guy Farley will
reunite with director Tim Lewiston (THE HOT POTATO) and will
compose original score for upcoming drama THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE.
The movie has recently began its principal photography in
Portugal. Colm Meaney (Hell On Wheels), Kate Ashfield (Shaun
Of The Dead) and newcomer Hannah Chinn star in the feature
about a successful author named Jonathan Stack (Meaney), who
has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that
he’s let his marriage to Samantha
(Ashfield), who is also his agent and editor,
break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him
for her business partner.Devastated, he abandons the elegant
family home in leafy Stratford Upon Avon and drives his
ancient Jaguar to the family villa in Portugal where their
young daughter Hope (Chinn) and her her half-sister Amelia
(Brenda Meaney) try to help sort things out.
Production companies are Stratford Upon
Avon-based Bad Penny Productions, Yorkshire-based Eagle Film
Productions and Monte Productions in Portugal. The movie is
expected to premiere in
2021.
February 22,
2020 / 17:20 (CET)
SILVER SKATES score was recorded earlier this week
at Abbey Road Studios in London. Here is a first few
photos from the sessions.
February 04,
2020 / 21:15 (CET) Guy Farley recenlty
completed original score for upcoming Russian drama SILVER SKATES
for director Michael Lockshi. The lengthy score will be
recorded at Abbey Road Studios very soon and the film is
expected to premiere later in 2020. Set in 1899, Saint
Petersburg, Russia. Mathew is the fastest delivery boy of an
elite bakery. Ice skating the frozen rivers and canals of the
northern capital is his preferred mode of transportation in
winter. After arriving late for his delivery because of the
Duke Vyazemsky's cortege, his boss fires him, even though he
knows that Mathew desperately needs money to help his dying
father. Meanwhile, Alice, the daughter of the Duke dreams of
studying in a university, however, her father considers women
suited for more "traditional roles in society". Mathew's
skating talents find good use in a gang of pickpocketers led
by the anarchistic minded Alex. While Arkadiy - Vyazemsky's
protege and potential son in law has been tasked with
eliminating criminal elements from the frozen canals' markets
before the New Year's celebrations commence. A chance meeting
of Mathew and Alice change their lives forever. But can love
overcome all their differences?
January 21,
2020 / 19:30 (CET) Movie Score Media's
U.S: distributor Screen Archives Entertainment is currently
running sale of early MSM's albums, which also includes Guy
Farley's scores for KNIFE EDGE and THE FLOCK. The limited edition
CDs are currently available for only 0,95 USD. Get your
copies while you still can and while you are
at it, don't forget to check out other great offers, including
some fantastic scores from Marco
Beltrami, Cyrille Aufort,
Fernando Velázquez, Dario Marianelli and Daniel
Pemberton among MANY others.
November 15,
2019 / 20:10 (CET) Guy
Farley's LEGACY was released on CD last month and copies can
be ordered directly from Bader
Foundation website. Signed copies are also available so
better not to hesitate. In the meantime you can also listen to
the commentary by the composer about this piece. All proceeds
from the sale of this unique and collectable EP will go
towards the Douglas Bader Foundation.
August 09,
2019 / 19:20 (CET) THE
BADER SUITE aka LEGACY will be released as special
limited edition CD on September 5th. It will be also available
digitally through all the stores including iTunes, Amazon and
streaming services. Purchase links will be
added as soon as available so keep checking.
The first 100 copies of the CD will be autographed by the
composer.
August 04,
2019 / 19:20 (CET) Entire year has passed since the
latest update, in the meantime Guy recorded Legacy¸ a musical
tribute to Sir Douglas Bader, the World War Two fighter ace
who lost both his legs in a plane crash. In partnership with
the renowned disabled charity, the Douglas Bader Foundation,
Legacy will pay tribute to Douglas Bader, and all those who
have overcome disabilities in their lives. You can listen to
this piece on Guy's official website . He also arranged Benny Goodmans Sing
Sing Sing for the 2019 Toyota Corolla campaign. See below for
a short film on the recording of
it…
August 04, 2018 / 14:50 (CET) Guy Farley scored SYLVIA PLATH:
INSIDE THE BELL JAR earlier this year and the movie will debut
on August 11th on BBC 2 at 21:00. Inside The Bell Jar is the
first documentary about Plath's classic semi-autobiographical
novel. In it Frieda Hughes talks about her mother in depth for
the first time on camera, and has unprecedented access to
people who knew Sylvia Plath, many of whom are talking
publicly for the first time.Blending beautifully shot
interviews, impressionistic reconstruction, unpublished
letters and photographs and a wealth of period archive that
takes us back to the summer of 1953. This film is the story of
an age, a person and a novel like no other.Life Inside The
Bell Jar (1x60') is directed by Teresa Griffiths.
You can also
check out lengthy interview from a few months back, which
is available at Review
Graveyard.
March 19,
2018 / 21:32 (CET) Guy Farley
has collaborated with Tokio Myers on 2018 Commonwealth Games
Anthem Jerusalem and you can see him conducting the orchestra
in the music video below. In other news Guy has been also
working on his next solo album and is scoring new short movie
about the life of Douglas Bader - Royal Air Force pilot during the
Second World
War.
February 19, 2018 / 09:20 (CET) CALDERA RECORDS just announced
their release of Guy Farley's score for THAT GOOD NIGHT. The
movie will be released in the U.K. on May 11. The album will
be available in a couple of weeks through all specialised
retailers and besides original score (roughly 41 minutes) it
also includes label's usual composer commentary. For more
details and to listen to sample suite, check out Caldera's website .
November 12, 2017 / 20:10 (CET) Over the past few months Guy has
been busy scoring several high profile ads for Waitrose
(recorded at Angel and including new arrangement of Carol of
the Bells), Very (recorded at Abbey Road Studio 1), Aldi UK
(featuring new arrangement of Danny Elfman's Edward
Scissorhands recorded at Smecky Studios in Prague) and
Morrisons (recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2).
New Waitrose is also
accompanied by new story by author Anne Fine, who wrote Madame
Doubtfire, called Let It Snow, a tale about two animal
families who become unlikely companions over a festive
meal.For every book sold in Waitrose, a donation of 50p will
be made to The Trussell Trust charity, which runs a network of
more than 400 food banks. The ad screens for the first time on
Sunday during X Factor on ITV1. You can also watch all new ads
below:
November 12, 2017 / 20:00 (CET) Over this year Guy has worked
again with Tokio Myers and co-composed his new album OUR
GENERATION, which goes on sale next Friday. You can check out
the samples and pre-order your copy on Amazon,
Amazon
MP3 or iTunes
.
01. Red (1:41) 02. Baltimore (3:42) 03. Bloodstream (3:35) 04. Angel (3:26) 05. Limitless (3:54) 06. Mercy (4:06) 07. To Be Loved (3:18) 08. Children (Interlude) (1:16) 09. Children (3:33) 10. Polaroid (3:55) 11. Our Generation (5:18) 12. Lotus Flower (4:05) 13. Pursuit of Happiness
(6:24)
August 31, 2017 / 15:15 (CET) THAT GOOD NIGHT was originally
planned to be released this Fall, but in the meantime the
movie has been postponed and is currently scheduled to be
released on April 6th 2018 in the UK... There is no trailer
available yet... but at last you can finally listen to few
tracks from the score, which have just been posted on the
project page (see Filmography for details).
August 22, 2017 / 21:02 (CET) Guy won MUSIC AND SOUND AWARD 2017 in
"Best Re-record or Adaptation" category for his new
arrangement of We're the Superhumans for C4 Paralympics 2016.
The song was originally composed by Charles Strouse and Lee
Adams. You can watch the ad below.
August 22, 2017 / 20:52 (CET) A lot of time has passed since the last
update and more fresh news is coming soon... In the meantime
those on this side of the pond can mark their calendars and
stop by at Angel Studios on September 9th. Guy Farley will be
one of the guests of 2nd annual Fans of Music from the Movies
gathering. For more information and to secure your ticket for
this extraordinary event, visit its website .
