About

Candle is London's most exciting music house. We are involved in all aspects of music and soundtrack production and have worked with the most established agencies worldwide.

Our expertise include the supervision of music and sound to media, from conception to final delivery. The heart of Candle's work lies in TV commercial soundtracks and radio production but we cover all areas of sound production.These increasingly include online campaigns but also run to one-off projects like talking books and musical t-shirts.We have our own studio designed for both music and voice work.

Email stu@candle.org.uk for our showreel or with any queries. There isn't much in the sonic zone that Candle hasn't produced and we look forward to tackling your next project.

What we do: * Music Supervision * Copyright Clearence * Licensing Negotiation * Music Composition * Music Arrangement * Radio Production * TV Idents * Sound-a-likes * Casting * Incidental Music * Foley * Music Searches * Voice Overs * Production SFX * Ring-tone Creation * Sonic Branding * Sound Design * Website Audio * Internet Virals * Research * Narratives * TV Sponsorship Idents * CD/DVD Duplication * Animatics *

Tony Satchell - Managing Director

Tony started his career running the family farm in Sussex which had the only pedigree herd of Welsh Black Cattle in the South of England. At 19 he came up to London temporarily to baby-sit the offices of the music management company MMM.

He went on to tour managed RCA’s ground breaking classical-rock band Continuum`s UK tours.

Tony was a founding partner of Dart Records, one of the first independent UK record labels, starting as a Plugger, moving through A&R to becoming M.D. After ten turbulent, drunk, drugged, exhausting, but exciting years, the record label was sold to President Records.

He then joined record producers and artistes Barry Kirsch & Charlie Spencer to run their music production company, which turned into the commercial music company Candle Music. He is also on the committee of the advertising industry body PCAM, which looks after the interests of commissioned music writers.

From Monday to Thursday he lives on a 50ft traditional Narrowboat, Kildare IV, moored in the heart of London at Little Venice, returning on Friday to join his family Gilmore, Cassandra, Oakley and wife Mary in their secluded house on Newtown Creek, near Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. He is available 24/7.

What a thing: Tony breeds Scots Dumpys (rare breed chickens), gardens, shoots, sleeps in his hammock and drives a 1952 Ferguson TD20 tractor and 5.5 metre Avon RIB day

Charlie Spencer - Creative Director / Composer

He was born in Bolton, Lancs. After jobs in bleaching and dyeing and in a pulp and paper mill in Fort William, Scotland he came to London in 1979. He recorded his first single for EMI at Abbey Road and released a host of one-off records under such names as Mash, 13amp and Charlie da Vinci. He got involved in management as well as production and took on the awesome task of trying to control five mad Venezuelans who made up a Latin/Rock fusion band called Spiteri. Two singles went to number one in Venezuela and the album was a hit all over Latin America. The band is still a legend and a newly mastered CD of this first album has just been released.

Charlie then went to California for a year producing the LA band, August. On returning, he wrote and recorded for many different artistes and had an international best-seller with the Bay City Rollers recording of "Love Brought me Such a Magical Thing". Charlie later formed Candle Music with Tony Satchell.

Charlie’s latest project is The Zoobes. From abbey road song demos in the 70’s he has remixed and re-recorded the album called 'From The Attic' on Clear Records. The Zoobes have already broadcast on BBC Radio Tees (the Bob Fischer Show) and BBC6 (the Gary Crowley show) with lots more to come from them!

Charlie lives in North London with his wife Robyn and three children Alfie, Poppy and Sadie.

Ian Ritchie - Composer

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Ian joined his first band playing saxophone whilst at Liverpool University studying chemistry. The band happened to be Deaf School, the seminal Liverpool theatre rock group that included producer Clive Langer (Madness) as a guitarist and Ian Broudie (Lightning seeds) as a roadie. The band toured extensively in the UK, Europe and USA as well as making three albums and numerous singles. Following Deaf School's break up Ian moved to London and was active as a session musician, playing sax on records by Wham, David Sylvian, The Beach Boys, Robbie Nevil, Dee C. Lee, Ash and Aswad among many others. He later formed his own electronic "New Romantic" duo Miro Miroe. This lead to studio work as an arranger/programmer with producers Steve Levine, Zeus Held, Godley and Creme, Colin Thurston and Tim Palmer.

In the late Eighties Ian moved into record production himself, working with Roger Waters on "Radio Kaos", Laurie Anderson on "Strange Angels", Pete Wylie on "Sinful" as well as albums with Hugh Cornwell, Soho, Three O Clock and The Big Dish. The Nineties saw Ian concentrating on composing, with themes and incidental music for the "Lonely Planet" and "Globetrekker" series as well as one off documentaries including "Supertwins" and "The Real James Bond Gadgets" featuring Roger Moore. During 2006-2008 Ian toured the World with Roger Waters playing saxophone, EWi and bass on Dark Side of the Moon and other Pink Floyd hits. His own group Ian Ritchie's SOHO Project is active on the London jazz scene, as well as the European festival circuit. They are soon to release their second album "South Of Houston". Deaf School have reformed and followed up London gigs at the 100 club and the Garage with a triumphant weeks residency at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre. On his days off Ian performs with the amazing cabaret diva Holly Penfield and Charlie Spencer's "Zoobes".

John Ashton Thomas - Composer

John was born in South Devon in 1961. In 1974, during this time as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, one of his early pieces received its first perfromance there. He studied composition at Trinity College of Music and Univertisty of London, Goldsmith's College. His Bellet score "Meeting Points" was performed at The Place in 1984, and his work has been played at the ICA and on the South Bank.

He has composed for several film, TV and radio productions including the theme music for the BBC2 business programme Working Lunch and the ITV documentary series Real Life. He has been working regulary as a freelance composer and Candle since 1993. He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Trinity College of Music, and leads a modern Jazz band called Heading Out who debuted at the Jazz Cafe in 1995. John has composed for films such as 'Robots', 'Mr & Mrs Smith, 'Bourne Identity', 'Bourne Supremacy', 'The Italian Job', X-Men 3 with John Powell in Los Angeles and continues to work on new films there this year.

Stu Sibley - Producer

Stu was born in London and grew up in Cambridge. After an education in music and sound design, he started working with independent record labels Futureproof Records and Total Fitness.

He joined Universal Music Goup in 2009 as Digital Release Manager, working closely with Island Records, Cooperative Music and Interscope. He looked after digital release campaigns for artists including Keane, Fleet Foxes, Jessie J, Lady Gaga, Caribou, Mumford and Sons, The Black Keys and many more.

Stu has a side project producing electronica under the name 'Yutah'