Mike MacLennan

Throwback to orch recording the other week for my latest project - a doc about an incredible woman and her relationship with blue whales, directed by Hugh Pearson (‘Blue Whales: Return of the Giants 3D’ & ‘Our Planet’). Oceanic Films have made something special - can’t wait to share the music soon!

How have they made a cake/brownie type thing look bad?!?!?!

I’m loving everything about how ridiculously self-centred this series is. Four episodes in and still waiting for him to just walk into a shot…literally hasn’t happened yet 😂

Instagram is currently the only one I still feel compelled to engage with. It definitely feels like there was a certain charm in the naivety (for lack of a better word) of 2009/2010 early Twitter that we just can’t get back.

Had a great time at Wiltshire Music Centre this week listening to my piece Sonus Solaris which will be performed by WEYO tonight and tomorrow! 🎉

Congrats DA 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

There was a Brian Butterfield show that he toured in the last year or so - I didn’t realise until it had already happened anywhere nearby, but it seemed to get consistent insanely good reviews. That whole show was great though.

I can confirm that this is the perfect marriage of Christmas and capitalism.

YouTube video by Focus Features Last Breath - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters February 28

‘LAST BREATH’ - coming 2025

Directed by Alex Parkinson and scored by Paul Leonard-Morgan, featuring orchestrations and lots of synthy goodness by yours truly.

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Managed to get out of the studio a bit this week (read ‘out’ as ‘walking straight into a variety of other windowless rooms’).

Got to see WILL & HARPER followed by a Q&A with Will Ferrell & Harper Steele on Tuesday, followed by hearing Kris Bowers talk about his score for THE WILD ROBOT last night.

I walked past the half constructed husk of that very Yorkshire Pudding wrap stand the other week. Still haven’t ever been to that market despite living near it for almost a decade - maybe I’ll change that this year.

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Nännelcam - the name doesn’t scream furniture to me. It’s either a very niche gadget from the kitchen bit downstairs, or a packet of horrifically dry rye biscuits from the food shop by the exit.

I’ve read this headline three times today, and every time I’ve initially read it as Simon Cowell.

I'll make sure to be overjoyed about the next project announcement 😂

Thoroughly enjoyed FIRL’s show at The Pheasantry tonight 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 lovely to finally meet @eoscounsell.bsky.social too!

Dusty sax, dusty studio! But yay for decade old saxes saving the day.

Loved this film so much when I saw it ages ago - this is the perfect time for a rewatch! (Also spotted you at the Gladiator II screening the other week, but was in a mad dash to get the last good seats in the room, so didn’t get the chance to say hi).

Thoughts and prayers to whoever is about to get Wolverined by that thing.

Very pleased to have a new, less toxic outlet for elite DA garden centre content. Also, wasn't the whole point of Brexit to regain sovereignty of our good old British squirrel baffling? #shockedandappalled

He did a lecture at Trinity years ago while I was studying there - it was always one of the talks that stuck with me.

When that thing you bought tickets for 18 months ago comes around during your busiest work week in ages!

Had loads of fun at The Horne Section’s show in Oxford last night.

Well holy shit they’ve done an incredible job with this film! Thanks BAFTA for the tickets to see Wicked on an amazing screen, followed by Q&A with Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum, plus director Jon M. Chu, producer Marc Platt. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Yeah - it’s crap to feel like you have to move away from it (as much as I cherish my 9 followers on here so far 😂), but like you say, it just got to a point where you were inundated with that stuff, and that enough people you used to engage with just weren’t there anymore.

An evening of chocolate, a fresh candle, and some sweet sweet MIDI.

Hello! Anybody home?