mr steve productions

I actively got into music when I found a trumpet in an attic aged 6. Several days of train impressions later, I had harassed my parents into shelling out for music lessons to make the bad noise stop. This has lead to well north of 20 years making noise for a living in various studios first in London and now in Australia.

I got a music scholarship aged 11. Took up the double bass (another burden for my long suffering parents to cart around) and promptly used the free weekly music lessons to avoid maths lessons for a year (Don’t do that!) but also I ended up on two tours of the USA with the State youth orchestra, got pretty competent on the bass guitar, played in a couple of bands and then got switched on to the local electronic music scene (Bristol in the Mid ’90s was had a lot going on)

After school I shipped out to Belfast (the Good Friday Agreement had just been signed and I liked the poetry), did BA in English Lit, got a rudimentary sampler and sequencer set up and completed as many subsidiaries in electronic music/ experimental music and composition as possible. This lead to a PG Dip and MA in Sound Design for the Moving Image.

I started working professionally in audio post production in 2000. After proving that I had no flare for tea making I got a break doing mag transfers of the BBC sound archive, then worked my way up through at large Soho facility house over four years, mostly working on Paramount titles as an audio mastering and restoration engineer .

I then teamed up with Vincent Watts to form the sound department of S2S Post- a Brick Lane based post production company specialising in independent features, then Met Film (working from Ealing Studios) We have been independent for some time but have an ongoing partnership- together we have completed over 40 films.

As well as the long form film work I have completed short form advertising work for Brands such as Nike and Puma, sound installations for/with artists and companies that have toured around the world.

I enjoy teaching as much as I enjoy learning. I worked as an audio consultant for The Guardian (UK) and gave sound lectures and tutorials at the Met Film School. I lectured and tutored for UniSA for eight years and now work for Adelaide University doing more of the same with added course design and co-ordination responsibilities. I like to keep trying new approaches.In 2025 the pilot course I was hands on in developping and delivering won me a prize for ‘Innovation in Teaching‘

I enjoy writing. My last project, Nouvelle Cuisine , a French TV pilot I co-wrote with the director, got regional funding from the Burgundy Film Commission and picked up a prize at the Aubagne film festival ( I speak good French, but not as often as I used to since emigrating to Australia).

I got permanent residence in Australia in April 2016 and moved to Adelaide with my wife and son. I am available to work localy (Adelaide), interstate or abroad

My trumpet playing went down hill when I left school, my sister has since borrowed it indefinitely and uses it to teach 6 year olds how to annoy their parents.