I worked with stuart when he was Unchained Exe.dist which was his band’s full name back then, we worked in Painswick studio, on set, gigs, you name it we’ve done it. Stuart is a musical legend in his own right…Daniel Savage (Studio Tech).
I work with Stuart currently and his way around the studio, the equipment and being able to find the right sound is refreshing. It’s an honor to work with such a smart geezer, I wish he could make more himself in the industry as he really have talent….Davis Loman (lomax studios; Stuarts employer).
Stuart was always such good student, one who really knew his way around his choice of instrument, be it the accordion, melodica, keyboard, trombone, he always knew some quick and efficient way to come up with a original sounding solos or backing tracks, I’ve never had a student go so quickly from song on a scrap of paper, to the computer and he’ll have it on a disk in ten minutes flat ready to jam to. A class….Gennaro Javinnovi (Theory, notation and piano accordion teacher and mentor to Stuart)
I’ve worked on numerous, on local drama and music productions, with Stuart. He has this brilliant insight and vision, he can dream up directions, sound, music, character design and Lighting cues, he really is a one man army, I director at heart and a force to be reckoned with. He did exceptional works on our drama production of Momo and the time assassins, instead of doing over technical lighting cues and musical work which would have been over the top he adapted the scripts, with his inner timing of all the cues and SFX/music and made it happen nice and smoothly, would love to work with him again any day of the week….Geoff Carpenter.
I for start loved Stuarts sense of humor which got us through the production of “The inner life”, that was a really hard album to produce and took us seven months been locked in, in a studio nearly everyday and even though I felt the pressure, Stuart didn’t crack a frown even once, let alone fly off on one, like any normal person would have with are strict guidelines and timetable. He just ploughed through the work given to him, found the correct sounds with the synths, keyboards, suitcase piano, stomp boxes, the hammond with the drawbars and it numerous settings. The meetings with the heads of the studio team once to twice a week. His composition and keyboard work was second to none and his insight was certainly part of his overall persona. He certainly has his own style and I’m happy to see he’s launching new material, I would get behind him every step of the way if I had the time of day, but not any more with my job position at daws studio (part of Algee music, which is now part of the EMI publishing group). I still see stuart and mr loman some weekends and we are still excellent friends…Brian Crossman
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