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A lot of Final Fantasy, but also Sonic, Pokémon, and others.
A lot of Beatles, but also various other artists in disparate genres including ELP, Massive Attack, and Macintosh Plus.
Some themes from British TV programmes, some Dan and Phil stuff, the sound of a modem.
Reharmonisations and descants for hymn tunes, some psalm chants based on weird inside jokes from my undergraduate days.
A few piano reductions, some playing about with instrumentation/time signatures.
Arrangements of a few carols.
Cornish and Breton stuff, plus some other music associated with Cornwall that isn’t necessarily traditional.
I’ve been composing music since I first sat at a piano, and since around 2010 I’ve mostly focused on arranging, transcribing, and orchestrating things. In these pages you’ll find lists of all my work in this domain over the years, with links to sheet music and MP3s for some of them. The older ones, in most cases, are less good.
Wearing dog collar and purple clerical shirt, TV’s most popular priest sits down, takes a deep breath … and confesses an intimate moment from adolescence.
Father Ted star Dermot Morgan’s childhood was made a misery by priests, he has disclosed.
from at least February 1984 to July 1986, see Our Father pp. 112–8
Father Ted has a confession to make. “I’m a long since lapsed Catholic,” he reveals, “and my religion is football.
LONDON An Irish radio commercial featuring an actor impersonating US President Reagan has been dropped to avoid upsetting listeners.
At the end of our meal, Dermot Morgan asks the waitress for a coffee. “Right away, Father,” replies the starry-eyed woman. Morgan smiles at her with the patient indulgence of the priest he isn’t.
MN: You could almost be Welsh with a name like Morgan.
On Tuesday week last, RTÉ’s Network 2 was due to screen – after the 10.30 news and weather – the first edition of Newshounds, a new satirical comedy series from the Scrap Saturday merchants, Dermot Morgan and Gerry Stembridge. The duo were to feature as writers and performers, and former Nighthawks star Ann Marie Hourihane was to have a central comic role. But the show never went out: it was pulled and replaced with a filler called Yum, Yum, Yum – “a celebration of Cajun and Creole cooking in Louisiana”.
Funnyman Dermot Morgan will forever be grateful to Father Ted.