JC CARROLL
FILM & VIDEO
MUSIC PRODUCTION
From the Sound of the Suburbs to the Sound of the Cinema




JC CARROLL
LETS TALK ABOUT A CROCK OF GOLD
I was thrilled to be asked to put a team together to make some music for the Shane McGowan biopic a Crock of Gold. It was my chance to visit my Irish roots and work with some great people to help tell the story of this inspirational second generation Irishman. As usual, Julian asked some interesting questions and wanted some really special music and this soundtrack took me on a journey to discover deeper roots of music like Turlough O'Carolan O'Carolan. I also got to work with the wonderful original bass player of Shane's band Shanne Bradley and a great uillean Piper called Dickie Deegan.
BIG SCREEN PRODUCTIONS AND ART HOUSE AND ONLINE GUERILLA VIDEO
As part of the Punk ethic I have always produced my own records and I have been making videos for some of my Independent records for about 15 years at first with phone cameras and lo-fi production techniques. This is part of what I do people like what I produce and have been commissioning me to do, pope videos with Animation and animated lyrics sometimes I do this as a package with the music production it's worth getting in touch with me and I will talk about your project. It doesn't matter if it's a movie or a small band video I am interested.
15+
MOVIE PRODUCTION
78+
MUSIC VIDEO
VIDEOS
FEATURED PROJECTS
I made these videos maybe in my studio using Final Cut Pro and Apple motion to illustrate my songs during that process. I've got to learn a lot about making videos with a phone camera and how the timeline process works funny enough once you have made a record with the timeline making the video of it is somehow easier because you know where you are going, these videos are supposed to illustrate also all the different types of music I make. It makes some people crazy that I don't just do PUNK ROCK but things change and people move on. Thank you for watching if I could be any help to you to make your own music, more interesting let me know
THE GOLBORNE VARIATIONS
FLAVOURThe Golborne Variations is a an award-winning art house movie about the sites and sounds and smells of the road in North Kensington. The project started as the Jamm session with superstar bass player Guy Pratt Rockin' around an Arabic bass scale. They played a slow version of it and then they did a fast version of it. Luckily it was all recorded at Westbourne Studios and JC went back to his own studio and the project ended up over half an hour not content with a fantastic piece of music. JC decided he would turn the project into a movie with very basic cameras strapped to his car. He drove up to Portobello Road at 5 o'clock in the morning and filmed the market setting up including shots of sunrise over the iconic Tick tower, this is a lo-fi project done with basic cameras and it was a learn as you go project. Eventually it was cut into a movie and shown at the prestigious port developed film festival where curator Jonathan Barnett asked JC to perform it live at their annual festival was another step forward backwards he assembled a 12 piece band to play live to a cut of the film without music and received to standing ovation and a prestigious Portobello Film Festival best movie award . it was the beginning of many audiovisual projects JC was to embark on.
London a Modern Babylon
Julien Temple Award Winning DocumentaryPhilip Glass inspired arpeggiator Jam with Latin Choir featuring Paddy Carroll as a drone pilot and aerial shots of a village in Brittany called Plourac'h, I work very hard to get the robot choir of demonic monks to sing in Latin. This is actually footage of the village I live in Brittany. It's a nice place when it's not raining and it's nice when it is raining.
Oil City Confidential
Julien Temples Dr Feelgood MovieReggae Bass Circle of 5th Chords Duet with Mellissa Jo from JC Solo Album lots of Mandolins and accordian, this is adapted from the wonderful theme from love story written by Francis Lai I wanted to do something with the tune which I found in an old sheet music book easy tunes for the Organ. I loved it so much and of course it's a nice vehicle for the Mandolin. I play Accordian on it as well, but I'm not that good on the Accordion, but you don't have to be that good on the Accordian to make it sound sexy , Melissa does a lovely vocal on this thank you ,
SERVICES
WHAT SERVICE DOES JC OFFER
FILM MUSIC PRODUCTION
Composes Records and masters original music for Film Projects
Fixer and Musical Director
Puts together a team of musicians that can deliver what the director wants
CONTRACTS and PAPERWORK
Provides the production team with a one stop shop with clear contracts buy outs waivers and hassle free Music
MUSIC VIDEO
JC can provide Pre and Post Production Graphics and Animation for Music Videos and Explainer Videos
STORY
STORY BEHIND JC CARROLL
JC has been involved in movies since he first appeared on Michael White's music war. Not a very good start but a chance meeting with Film composer Michael Kamen and Work in The House band of a pantomime got him noticed.. for JC it all started with the Accordion he got sessions working on Loch Ness and Don Juan DiMarco later working for Michael Kamen's team. People realised that he was really flexible and able produce music in various different genres that began a long-standing relationship with producer Stephen Malit and director Julien Temple starting with the Dr. Feelgood biopic oil city confidential. In the film soundtrack where JC is a problem solver he brings a different attitude to his work and can in one movie flit from 1930s tea dance music to nineteen seventies disco to chanson to rock 'n' roll he has studied it all. Two stand out movies are Temples “London a Modern Babylon “ and the epic “Crock of Gold- a few rounds with Shane McGowan”
Films with scores or contributions by JC Carroll
Urgh! A Music War (1981)
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
Loch Ness (1996)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Straightheads (2007)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
Stardust (2007)
Virgin Territory (2008)
Telstar (2008)
Oil City Confidential (2009)
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
The Golborne Variations (2011)
London Modern Babylon (2012)
Looking for Johnny (2014)
Six Bullets to Hell (2014)
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Hector (2015)
The Goldborne Variations
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (2015)
Let Me Go (2016)
Sad Vacation (2018)
Suggs: My Life Story (2018)
We Are the League (2019)
Crock of Gold (2020)