TELL YOUR STORY
TRUE STORIES is the new production label for documentary makers. Our music lets your stories breathe.
Our composers have hundreds of 'to picture' music commissions under their belts, all over the world for major channels and independent production companies.
We live to make music for documentaries, factual entertainment and reality TV, films and drama. We know what makes you tick, your deadlines and your pet hates. We know what you don't want.
Our brand new label, recorded and produced from our Soho studio, brings that knowledge to production music.
And that's a TRUE STORY.
TRUE COMPOSERS
ANDY HOPKINS
Andy Hopkins is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist working in documentary, drama and film. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music, Andy had a successful career as a session musician working for artists such as Dido, Zero Seven and Groove Armada before he started scoring music for picture.
He scored his first BBC production “Horizon - The Truth About Violence” which led to many landmark documentaries such as “Stephen Fry’s Planet Word” (BBC/Sprout Pictures), “Child of Our Time” (BBC), “Filthy Cities”(BBC/Discovery) “David Beckham: Love of the Game” (Big Earth/Seven) and last year’s “Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice” for BBC/RTE.
Working from his studio in the heart of Soho, Andy’s versatility and determination to bring character and heart to every production have made him a regular on UK productions such as BBC Horizon, “Secrets of the Asylums”(ITV/Wall to Wall) and in the US with hit Drama-Docs “Paranormal Witness”, “Locked Up Abroad” and “Web of Lies”.
Andy’s music has featured in productions by all major broadcasters including BBC, ITV, SKY, PBS, Discovery, SYFY, RTE and National Geographic.
IAN LIVINGSTONE
Ian's works include: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, The Great British Sewing Bee,
Valiant Hearts, Walking With Dinosaurs, Napoleon: Total War, Rome II Total War, Xmen2 Wolverine’s Revenge, Batman Begins, Battlefield 1943, The King Maker, Company Of Heroes, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Ian Livingstone is an Ivor Novello-winning multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a session musician, engineer and midi programmer. After taking a music degree at Salford University Ian began scoring video game soundtracks such as “Starlancer”, “Lego Harry Potter”, “Star Trek Invasion”. He had his first break into films providing a full orchestral score for a cult joint Thai/USA movie “The King Maker” (2005). Ian has since gone on to score numerous video games and TV documentaries and series. His video game career spans over 100 titles including more recently Lego: Dimensions, Walking With Dinosaurs, F1 2014, Valiant Hearts, Total War Attila, Napoleon Total War (earning him an Ivor Novello award), Batman Begins, Harry Potter, Star Trek, X-Men2, Predator Concrete Jungle, Battlefield 1943, Bionicle Heroes.
TV documentaries and series include “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” ,“The Great British Sewing Bee” for BBC2, "Daredevils” for Ch4, “Survival: Tales From The Wild” for ITV.
JAKE JACKSON
Jake is the True Stories mix master and producer. He joined AIR Studios in 1998 and has 18 years of world class experience of orchestral and band recording and mixing. He specialises in projects working to picture and has recorded and mixed at all of London’s top studios, including AIR, Abbey Road, British Grove, Angel, AIR-Edel, RAK and Strongroom, encompassing all recording genres on projects that have been awarded many Soundtrack Awards, as well as Oscars, Baftas, Grammys, BRITS, & Golden Globes.
The score to "Under the Skin" which he mixed has recently won 9 score awards, and "Alien Isolation" was nominated in the 2015 BAFTA games awards.
Jake's credits include:
Disney's Cinderella - Patrick Doyle
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’s scores to The Road, Jesse James, 20000 Days on Earth, which he produced, recorded and mixed.
Under The Skin - Mica Chu
Alien Isolation - Christian Henson / The Flight
A Little Chaos - Peter Gregson
Foxcatcher - Rob Simonsen
He recorded and mixed the Worlds National Anthems for the 2012 Olympics for composer Philip Sheppard.
He has worked with Murray Gold for the last 9 years on scores including Doctor Who, and Life Story.
He has mixed for Sheridan Tongue for 5 years, mixing the scores to Silent Witness & DCI Banks.
DEAN MAHONEY
Dean is a music publisher, composer, bass player and producer with 20 years’ experience in the media music business.
As a publisher and consultant he has worked for several high profile production music companies, including 10 years as General Manager of Focus Music, growing the company worldwide until its acquisition by Universal Music Publishing in 2015.
He sat on the PRS Production Music Advisory Group for 12 years, helping to steer the direction of the UK business in a time of huge change. He also served as Chair of the Music Publisher’s Association Production Music Committee.
As a composer and musician, his music has appeared on TV around the world, on channels including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, MTV, Discovery, NBC, Netflix and Sky; and for shows including The Repair Shop, Embarrassing Bodies, Don’t Tell the Bride, Come Dine With Me, Long Lost Families and A New Life in the Sun.
He has music in feature films including Someone Else (RSA Films), Girl Trip (Universal Pictures) and Caged (Brenn Films).
Based in London, he plays bass and guitar well, drums badly and he cannot sing to save his life.