Biog & Contact Details - October 2017
Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer, musician & sound designer.
Work for performance includes: Jimmy's Hall (Abbey Theatre); Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest & The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); August: Osage County, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil, The BFG & Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Lyceum Edinburgh); The Gorbals Vampire, Trainspotting, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside & Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Light Boxes, Letters Home & The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre Glasgow); Grain In The Blood (Traverse/Tron); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Interference (Pepperdine Scotland); The Red Shed (Mark Thomas/Lakin McCarthy); JRR Tolkien's Leaf By Niggle (Puppet State Theatre/Red Bridge); A Gamblers Guide to Dying (Gary McNair/Show & Tell).
Other companies he has worked with include The Arches, Janice Parker Projects, Lung Ha, macrobert, Platform, People’s Light & Theatre Philadelphia, Playgroup, Poorboy, Theatre Uncut, Vox Motus and Youth Music Theatre UK.
To date he has collaborated on the making of seven Scotsman Fringe First award winners & has been twice-nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound.
Michael John's primary instruments are guitar and piano accordion. He has toured Europe & Japan with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat. He appears as an accordionist on albums by Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Niall Connolly, Emma Pollock, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy amongst others.
Work for film includes co-composing/performing the score for Where You're Meant To Be (Paul Fegan) and music for Pitching Up (Guardian Documentaries).
He has also composed & recorded several series' worth of radio music for the BBC.
He is lead artist on Turntable.
Work for performance includes: Jimmy's Hall (Abbey Theatre); Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest & The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); August: Osage County, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil, The BFG & Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Lyceum Edinburgh); The Gorbals Vampire, Trainspotting, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside & Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Light Boxes, Letters Home & The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre Glasgow); Grain In The Blood (Traverse/Tron); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Interference (Pepperdine Scotland); The Red Shed (Mark Thomas/Lakin McCarthy); JRR Tolkien's Leaf By Niggle (Puppet State Theatre/Red Bridge); A Gamblers Guide to Dying (Gary McNair/Show & Tell).
Other companies he has worked with include The Arches, Janice Parker Projects, Lung Ha, macrobert, Platform, People’s Light & Theatre Philadelphia, Playgroup, Poorboy, Theatre Uncut, Vox Motus and Youth Music Theatre UK.
To date he has collaborated on the making of seven Scotsman Fringe First award winners & has been twice-nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound.
Michael John's primary instruments are guitar and piano accordion. He has toured Europe & Japan with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat. He appears as an accordionist on albums by Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Niall Connolly, Emma Pollock, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy amongst others.
Work for film includes co-composing/performing the score for Where You're Meant To Be (Paul Fegan) and music for Pitching Up (Guardian Documentaries).
He has also composed & recorded several series' worth of radio music for the BBC.
He is lead artist on Turntable.
If you are interested in learning more about any aspect of Michael John's work, please email: info@michaeljohnmccarthy.com
