PAT MORAN
BASS GUITAR AND MUSIC DIRECTOR
Bio
Pat trained at California Institute of the Arts (USA), earning a performer/composer dual focus MFA. He relocated to the UK in 2015 and has worked extensively as a theatre multi-instrumentalist and music director.
UK theatre credits include: Wuthering Heights (National Theatre/Wise Children); The Wicker Husband (Westerna/Watermill Theatre); Cinderella (Hall for Cornwall); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh); Hireth (Hall for Cornwall/O Region); Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh); 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Sleeping Beauty (Bristol Old Vic). Pat served as resident composer/lyricist/musical director/multi-instrumentalist for the San Francisco Mime Troupe from 2007 – 2013. Recent compositions include work with BBC Ideas, visual artist Adébayo Bolaji, and with the projects PM Syndicate; Unreliable Witness, and Yesterday’s Camel.
SID GOLDSMITH
GUITAR
Bio
Bristol based musician Sid Goldsmith is a stalwart of the English folk scene. His recordings of folk songs have been nominated for a BBC2 Folk Award and he’s performed at countless festivals and gigs and live sessions for BBC Radio 2/3. His duo ‘Aldridge/Goldsmith’ were recently awarded the number 1 spot in Songlines ‘top 10 climate conscious artists’. As a multi-instrumentalist (Vocals, Guitar, Cittern, Concertina, Double Bass) he’s in demand and current projects include Awake Arise (a show celebrating winter traditions, featuring Lady Maisery) and Tarren (trio with Danny Pedlar and Alex Garden).
ALEX LUPO
PERCUSSION
Bio
Alex is a practising musician with over 20 years of experience as a performer, composer and producer. As a performer, composer and producer Alex has collaborated with PJ Harvey, Ivor Award winning composer Charlotte Harding, Charles Hazlewood and the British Paraorchestra, Bibio, Dubkasm, Malachai, Babyhead, The Allergies, League of the Black Rabbit, United Kingdoms, and the Most Trio among others. Alex has worked on a number of theatre productions as a composer and sound designer and has toured as a performer with KneeHigh Theatre Company (Dead Dog in a Suitcase UK Tour in 2015 and 2019, the Tin Drum UK Tour 2017, and Ubu Karaoke at the Kneehigh Asylum in 2018 & 2019), and at the Globe Theatre in Emma Rice’s production of Twelfth Night (2017), and as musical director and composer on Mike Shepard’s 2022 production of Calvino Nights. As a composer for film, TV and animation Alex has worked with Aardman Animation Ltd, Cartoon Network, Wonky Films, Rumpus Films, Reflective Films, the BBC, Channel 4, Lucky G, Rinse the Sync, and Lift Music among others.