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Click here to go to thebayciteemolars.co.uk site where you can find the album
'Dentura Highway' Sex and Gums and Rock and Roll'. And the promo for the single 'Skunk Breath'.
And on www.jonathankydd.co.uk to go to my videos
And www.theonlineactingclass.co.uk to see my friend Nathan Burbage Sinclaire
and www.ahaarrrr.com for my award winning short film
NOV 2011 to MAR 2012
A mass of stuff has 'appened in the last five months! The usual regular voicing for Nat Geo, Discovery, Animal Planet, Film 4, More 4, Channel 4, C4 docos, ScyFy channel, a sweet project for M&C called Visit Georgia for my friends Jerry & Clive, some more Lufthansa for McCanns, CSI for Channel 5, in fact a mass of stuff for C5 including some Europa league promos for manu! (i had to avoid talking about Chelsea) A clutch of Daily Mail ads, some BBC Yesterday promos and BBC Olympic advertising. And a huge 6 part doco series for the Asian Food Channel on 'Great meals of the World!'and of course the new Lemsip ads and 'Visit England' ads have been on.
Speaking of Chelsea I've been regularly podcasting on the Chelsea Podcast with Phil Daniels of Quadrophenia fame.
My short film Wart about a poor auditionee is being shot in April. I'm casting at the mo. Looks like Billy fellows, ian Redford and Martha Howe Douglas.
My Musical has has a title change: 'Dan Leno: the Hard Boiled Egg & the Wasp' is the title now. Added the 'Dan Leno'. It's all going along at a huge pace now. Got nearly all the crew assembled. The rehearsals start at the Dance Attic on 23rd April for 4 weeks and the show opens at the Lion & Unicorn on 23rd. have a marvellous MD called John Knight.
Am recording the fourth series of 'The Castle' by Kim Fuller with Neil Dudgeon and James Fleet. It'll be on radio 4 in July. I play the camp Cardinal Duncan and the inventor Thomas. Terrific writing and a great cast.
The Hubba Hubba 5 rehearsals will be in June for the Henley Festival in July. have written even more songs!
Err that's enough!
Oh yes one more thing. I've engaged the services of a whizz kid designer webman called Nurul Bashar so we may be seeing a few changes to the site!
JULY TO NOV 2011
The musical wot I wrote 'The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp' about the death of 1900s comedian Dan Leno (it's a comedy!) will be on next year (May into June) at the Lion and Unicorn theatre. We've had a reading of it and I've finished all the songs with Andy Street who is working on American Idol in the States. We Skyped and he sent me mp3s! I'm hoping to have a good director and a decent cast! Can't decide whether i should be in it or not!
Been voicing the Mail and Lemsip and BaKer's Meaty Meals on Telly and Discovery promos and Nat Geo and Discovery channel and BBC Trust on TV and radio and Lufthansa and Cuprinol and BBC World and More4 and Film 4 and Axa and idents and narratives and pitches etc etc
And of course writing stuff for the new singing act. Have got 6 new songs!
We did Henley in July with a new set of excellent singers all MD'd by Sandy Burnett and sold out AGAIN but not with the Molars. With The 'Sweet Pfists of Righteous Harmony' all acapella. But i want a new idea and therefore am looking for new names for the band. That's an uphill struggle I can tell you! The Botox 5? The facelifts? Collagen Filler? The Travelling Fandangos? All possible.
As regards the Mighty Blues Chelsea FC, I've been doing #ChelseaPodcast and #ChelseaFancast which have been good fun. This has been instead of the vlogs which I may return to.
My mum is ill but hoping she'll be out of hospital asap
My daughter georgia is 3 in january! Blimey!
I'm collecting together a whole series of new songs to go out and do a few open spots with a view to recording a new straight album
And I'm trying to get ideas for a standup cum one man show
And of course about to shoot a short. 'Wart'
There's more but er...can't remember at the mo!
DEC to JUNE 2011
been voicing masses. Lots of daily mail, lots of pitches, a doco for the Royal Wedding, the Rowntrees Fruit Gums TV ads, promos for Scy Fy C4 More 4, nat geo, Movies 24, Sky Atlantic, etc etc. Also been writing a new script for The Molars who are now 'The Sweet Fists'. I've had a casting organized by the excellent Ricahrd Evans and we are now a five piece acapella band. The Henley fringe week are the first gigs. 8 new songs and new banter with five stalwart Molars/Kondo songs that I can't leave behind. Rehearsals start July 4th. Henley is 18th to 23rd. Website will follow at some stage.
I've been Cheslea FC vlogging all the games on You Tube and have done several Chelsea Podcasts. may create my own vidcasts for next season.
The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp, my musical about comedian Dan Leno is due to go on at the Lion and Unicorn in Kentish Town in jan. So pre production organization now underway. Andy Street has come on board as my musical co-writer.
My daughter Georgia is 2 and is responding excellently to all my efforts to get her to say phrases in different accents and characters. When the bathwater goes down the plugole she says' in the hole' like any true US golf enthusiast. marvellous.
DECEMBER:
All my vids are now up on www.jonathankydd.co.uk
This has been a labour of love as I digitize all my VHS vids and then take out sections to post on the site. It takes ages as I watch stuff I haven't viewed for years and then watch all the programmes I'd recorded around the show I was in!
Voicing: The whole Lemsip campaign on the box is me As are all the Daily Mails! There's a Boursin that's me as well! And Film 4 and Nat Geo and ScyFy and FX and Discovery and Talk Talk and Talksport and BBC World News and radio 4 digital stuff and various Corporates and a Shark Attack doco.
Been working out whether to take the Molars to Edinburgh next year along with The Leno musical whose title is changing
More Vlogs up on You Tube for the faltering ChelseaFC
And I've got a new creation called Nathan Burbage Sinclaire up on www.theonlineactingclass.co.uk
Doing a character for the guys at talksport
www.jonathankydd.co.uk is up and running with all my vids...
And my daughter is 23 months old and can say 'Teri dacter' which is quite advanced. She is however looking at next door's dog when she says this so there's some confusion somewhere.
AUGUST TO NOVEMBER
So the Bay Citee Molars sold out the Henley Fringe Festival and were described as 'brilliantly funny!' by the Henley Standard. The band are soo good. It's Heidi, Rafael and Victoria at the mo. We went down a storm at the Linclonshire Sausage festival as well in October. And at Brighton Upstairs at Three and Ten. That was great as well. And at Positively Fourth Street in Euston. And at Camden. So the gigging's good. I'm trying to get us on for a long run somewhere. Not sure where yet.
The voicing's been great! Lemsip, Nat Geo, Discovery, Actimel, Sensodyne, Daily Mail, Lufthansa, British Gas, Film 4, More 4, BBC World News, ScyFy, Talk talk, and a lot more I've left out. Been vlogging all the Chelsea games on You Tube. The World of Tremlett vid is being pitched. There's a new website out called Jonathankydd.co.uk which will have a mass of vids of tv shows and films I've been in and made and voiced. It's a kind of greatest hits.
The Nathan Burbage Sinclaire site is about to be launched as well. So it's all happening as usual.
Remember: thebayciteemolars.co.uk..(there's another ad in Viz btw)
tremlett.org.uk
jonathankydd.co.uk
kyddmusic.co.uk
ps I also appeared on Radio4's Movie programme and Radio Solent talking about my dad's films!
And voiced a Dunkirk doco in which his book featured!
FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 2010
Bliemy! It's all go! Have been voicing and singing and gigging and promo making and editing and radio 4ing and Twittering and facebooking and bringing up my wonderful daughter and looking after my aged mother and having my house done up so my girlfriend Henrietta can move in!
On the radio front I recorded the third series of 'The Castle' by Kim Fuller with James Fleet and Neil Dudgeon and Ingrid Oliver and Stephen Kynman and Lewis MacCleod and it was great. very funny series.
On You Tube I did all the Chelsea games as a video blog and ended up with the Cardiff City one getting 4,000 hits and getting on the Chelsea Homepage!
Voice wise it's been hectic: L'Oreal and Actimel and the Daily Mail and British Gas and Specsavers and Kia and Film 4 and More 4 and BBC World News and Bin Buddy and Scyfy and Nat Geo and Discovery and Hallmark and Shark Attacks docos and masses of Star Wars characters for the Internet and corporates and Talk Talk etc etc.
Bay Citee Molars wise it's all up on the now finished website thebayciteemolars.co.uk and its sister site tremlett.org.uk and the album is obtainable there. We've made a fab promo of the single Skunk Breath which is up on You Tube and the site and we sold out Henley in July which we filmed to be up on the site.
The album is as before Highway Dentura Sex and Gums and Rock and Roll. It's going out to the press and A&R everywhere. The World of tremlett promo is finished and going out in conjunction with the site being ready. This will all eventually be up here.
The new character Nathan Burbidge Sinclair is due to be unveiled soon. he's been kept back till the album/website/World of Tremlett was all ready.
The band play The Lion and Unicorn in Kentish Town on 24th to 26th of August and there's been an ad in Viz! promoting it
More to come! watch this space!
Oh and the Chelsea Blue video and song is up on You Tube and getting hit after hit as well. So's the 'Loo Lead promo I shot for the 'World of Tremlett' pilot.
And of course the Skunk Breath video.
AUGUST to FEBRUARY 2009-2010
Phew! Haven't updated for months. Have been ultra busy. My daughter Georgia is now a year and a bit and walking! She's wonderful! The Amazing Singing Dentists are now the Bay Citee Molars. I've been voicing like a madman and done L'Oreal, Actimel, Specsavers, Weight Watchers, National Geographic, Sky Box Office, BBC World News, Film Four, More 4, Lufthansa, TV and radio campaigns as well as the usual Sky Travel and lots of promos and corporates...etc etc
The World of Tremlett is almost finished with new sketches being shot as I type, and we'll then pitch it!...the Bay Citee Molars album 'Dentura Highway' is finished tomorrow (17th Feb) and then we have to work out a release date! It's 72 minutes long with sketches and spoof ads. I hope it's funny! Need to get photos and album cover done. We're playing the Brighton Festival in may so I'm rewriting the show. And need to get another band as mal has left! I'm looking to get a bass guitarist and make it a three piece...possibly! The new website is being designed by my deeply talented pal Ian Sachs and is very cartoony.
There will be also be a Tremlett site and a Chelsea FC site. I've done vlogs of all the Chelsea games this season which are up on You Tube.And this site will be revamped!
The Leno play has had a week of reading and hasn't made much progress! But the aim is still to rewrite it then get it on. And I'm writing a screenplay..and have been rehearsing 'The Fists' band with Emma Stakes! I'll add more on when I remember it!
JUNE/JULY/AUGUST
I'm doing an ep of Doctors playing the guest lead called 'The Perfect face for radio' which is transmitted in November.
Have started some Cheslea FC Vlogs to post on You Tube!
The Henley week with the Amazing Singing Dentists in July sold out! Two excellent new girls Steph Parry and Tash Williams. There are pics and vids on the Dentists site.
Ads and promo wise I've voiced a lot including four more L'Oreals, a Jaffa Cake ad, a Sky News, British car Auctions, Frubes, COI, Sky Travel, Sky animations,Tiscali, Nat Geo, Film 4, More 4, Film 4 at Somerset House, Zurich, Lufthansa, Lexus cars, BBC World, etc
Doing band 'The fissts of Harmonious Righteousness in September
There's a new Castle series soon on Radio 4,
The World of Tremlett pilot is still being edited but is looking good.
The detists album has been put back to coincide with a three week run in London TBC
My musical about Dan Leno was read but was long long long so threre's a week long workshop in September to get it into a decent state coming up. I've been re writing!
MARCH/APRIL/MAY: 'Tears Lies and Videotape' doco on ITV 1 was voiced by me!
New Amazing Singing Dentists songs. Album almost finished! Phew! But I've written and recorded two more tracks! Rehearsals in June for Henley and obviously for gigs to advertize the album!
New character to be explored! Nathan Boobidge St Claire..will video some of him soon.
Ads: On TV...HSC...Actimel...L'Oreal Collagen...and Vitafibrine.....On radio...More Specsavers including one playing Macbath himself...Lufthansa as well...
....also shot the sketch show 'World of Tremlett' pilot in the kitchen attended by Anna Phoebe (great violinist) The Amazing Singing Dentists, comedian Paddy Lennox,superb sax player Martin Winning, the gratuitous bikini girls and the Jonny Kydd band! All being edited at the mo!
Also promos for the BBC and lots and lots of film 4 promos.
New series of the Castle for Radio 4 commissioned.
Website for the film I made 'ahaarrr' now up on www.ahaarrrr.com
FEB:Several Specsavers radio ads with the excellent Andy Nyman...a visual promo for the Chris Moyles show playing an announcer...more L'Oreals...lots of Tiscali Homechoice, Nat Geo, Sci Fi (Eli Stone) Discovery, Sky Travel, an Oscars ad for Hong Kong, a Lufthansa radio ad etc etc...editing my spoof ad 'The Loo Lead' which looks great..lots of new Dentists' songs...(congrats to Kirsty Malpass one of the dental girls for getting into the tour of Sound of Music as the 'alternate' Maria..but it means we need to find someone else)..a fantastic Dentist gig at the Dublin Castle in Camden...with newcomer Emily Sidonie..but she's up for a part in Grease..so....
and more recording for the album which will now be out in July with a campaign to match its madness..and a preliminary reading of my Dan Leno musical with Simon Greenall (the meerkat on the comparethemarket.com ads) Nigel Antony, Rupert Degas, Rupert Farley and Kirsty...it's all happening!
JAN: It's me playing the Teacher Egg in the Cadbury's Creme Egg ad on the box. Goo!
Madly writing the Dan Leno Musical and lots of lyrics and sketches. Also the 'Being an Actor' film which is looking to be too expensive so I'm trying to avoid having a scene with twenty people in it (which of course I've just written)
Lots of voicing for Sci Fi, Discovery, L'Oreal, Sky Travel, several corporates, Nat Geo, San Miguel, KLM radio ads etc etc etc
DEC: Just shot a new Tremlett spoof ad called 'The Loo Lead'. The other two' Cum Bung' and 'Love Glove' are up on You Tube and have created a lot of interest from various Producers who want me to make more! The 'being An Actor' film is now next year but the Dentists' album is 'phew' almost there. It's to be called 'The Fissts of Harmonious Righteousness' ..possibly. ('you've gone mad' said a friend) Just done a visual promo playing a street trader for Tiscali which will be up here on the site and three new L'Oreals for Christmas. Bought tickets for Chelsea v Bordeaux but didn't go due to too much work which is great but anoying (though Chelse were shit) I'm doing the Castle this week on Radio 4 so missing Chelsea v Arsenal! Lots of Actimel and promos and Sky Xmas stuff...and December's hardly started! The hunt goes on for new Dentists girls. They're all so good they're all getting West End jobs!
NOV: Two excellent dentists gigs at the Rule of three evening at the basement in Leicester Square Theatre and then the Smirking Sequin at the Phoenix in Oxford Circus and a new promo to be recorded as the Dentist's album finally nears completion though we're all slightly losing the will to live....I'm doing some Podcasts with friends Iain farnsworth and Phillip Freeman about..football. We've done three of them. They'll be up here along with new videos. I've voiced more promos for the Sci-Fi Channel and Hallmark and Film 4 and done more Actimel and COI stuff and recently played a large number of farm yard animals for a Fisher Price Toy! And a railway video for the south coast for Peter Middleton, a wonderful rail enthusiast! And other stuffas well including some new hush hush video games and lots of SVU all over the channels promos. Phew!
The 'Being an Actor' film progresses and Nikolaj Bloch is helping me select some new songs for my new album of love songs. Also.... Rewrites of 'The hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp my musical have changed it to 'The Gooseberry jam and the wasp' which might change back!
OCTOBER: Three more Dentsts gigs with new girl Kirsty Malpass, some rehearsals to insert some more songs and another raft of promos and vos including another new L'Oreal with Andi McDowall happening this month.Also did a whole series of internet ads playing a McCain oven chip.
Meanwhile I've decided to finish off the Being an Actor script and do that as my next film project and then do the Dentist film next year. And there's the Leno play now set to be a musical. And I'm attempting to flog my book 'Diary of a Voice Over'. 'The Castle' is recording a second series next month where I reprise Tom and Duncan and sundry others.
SEPTEMBER: More Amazing Singing Dentists gigs including another at Chat's Palace in Hackney. Incidentally I've made a film of the April Chat's Palace gig in a documentary style which I shall be entering into a few festivals. It's called 'The Amazing Singing Dentists play Chat's Palace. ' which is a bit like 'it does what it says on the tin'. We've been doing the gigs with the excellent Kirtsy Malpass coz the excellent Cathy Cogle is now in 'The Sound of Music' playing a nun and has her hands tied by also being in the Royal National Lifeboat Institute so that's her gorn. You may find her on the Thames trawling for bodies at some stage.
Other work wise I voiced a doco for ITV called 'Mr Swirl' about the paedophile who disguised his face by swirling it with 'swirl' software and the usual abundance of promos and L'Oreal ads as well as another Actimel and a Monopoly and another 'In the Night garden' and an Amex more Film 4 and TCM and Sci Fi (Eli Stone) and Hallmark and Homechoice etc etc.
AUGUST: Excellent Camden Fringe Shows with the Amazing Singing Dentists. Described in Time Out as 'The Peculiar ASDs. Hysterical. Recommended.' I love being called 'peculiar'. We'll try and be more peculiar from now on!
Doing a new series of radio4 comedy show 'The Castle' in November. Chelsea Blue video completed and up on the ASDs site. There's a link above.
New L'Oreal 'Colagen Plumper' ads voiced. Along with Film4 and Hallmark promos and Discovery and TCM and Sky etc.
MAY/JUNE/JULY:
Amazing Singing Dentists gigs all over (see theamazingsingingdentists.co.uk) including a tour de force at the Ginglik and a sell out at the henley Fringe Festival where we got the following review: 'Lyrics as cutting as sharpened incisors...slick and utterly professional...very funny songs with expert chat in between'...
New L'Oreal, new Actimel, more film 4, TCM, Hallmark, another Fable, CNBC, etc etc we finished the Chelsea song edit and the ASD's album is almost completed.
Went to Moscow in may for the Champions League game.
have almost finished my book on voice overs and am sketching out a musical.
MARCH/APRIL:
Work includes:
Film 4 Promos
Tesco Direct TV Campaign
Actimel TV Campaign
Lufthansa Radio ads
Singing Dentists gigs and album
Jonny Kydd gigs
Chelsea FC Vlogs
Voice of British Connection promos for Film 4
'In the Night garden' TV ads for Hasbro.
JAN/MARCH:
Qatr Airways on Sky News
'Wart' film to be shot in May
New Hallmark Promos and Satellite TV idents
New edit of 'Dentists' 'Put My Tongue In'
'Chelsea Blue' song promo being edited
My short film Ahaarr! at time of writing in 17 Film Festivals worldwide
Producing Simon Van Den Borg's play
'I'm Him He's Nobody' for the Stage
Singing Dentist Website up and running!
www.thesingingdentists.co.uk
More Discovery Promos including 'Overhaulin' and 'Mythbusters'
Actimel Vanilla for TV
Crime and Investigation Channel Promos
Fable 2 CD Rom games
L'Oreal Age Pefect and Revitalift ads on again and revoiced!
Mme Tussaud's Alton Towers Pirate rides and boats playing Cap'n Black the Pirate Ghost and others...
Gaffa no longer exists!...
Chelsea video vlogs on You Tube
Singing Dentists gigs and projects including the 'Chelsea Blue' song and a vid for it and a re-edit of 'Put My Tongue I'
EDF Energy VO at the Rugby World Cup
'Where do they get their energy from?'
Jonny Kydd live album produced by Nikolaj Bloch with Kate Hethrington on cello and Mal Darwen on guitar in the offing. It's gonna rock yer!
TV networked Voice Overs for 'Just Another Day (Adam Hart Davis)
The Times
Aharr at the Hollywood Film Festival
Chelsea Football Club Vlogs on You Tube
Dentists gigs
Legion of Fire for Sci Fi Channel pilot to be aired followed by a series.
Chelsea song and album and revamp for Website for the Singing Dentists out soon
Formula 1 doco for the BBC
Channel 4 and 5 and History Channel promos
Daily Mirror Ghoulies and Ghosts and Actimel and L'Oreal Collegen ads on the box now!
Singing Dentists gigs at the Battersea Barge on 6th September and a Private Party on 6th Oct
Singing Dentists at Cherry's Rock and Roll Kabaret on 30th July and two full Dentists sets at the Camden Fringe at Liberties bar on 6th and 7th August.
New SD's vid.
Aharr in Rome Final.
New L'Oreal ad
God's Nudists Doco
World of Clutter Doco
Comedy pilot for Sci Fi Channel 'The Legion of Fire' for Niall Towl. Starring Ron Moody And er me!...As his son. Very funny stuff.
Six part BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series for Pozzitive Productions called 'The Castle'
which is recorded before a live audience at the Drill Hall. Very funny writing, set in the Middle Ages starring James Fleet and Neil Dudgeon, written by Kim Fuller. I play the camp Bishop sidekick to Neil Dudgeon's William de Warrenne and James Fleet's Yorkshire butler/inventor. Fantastic fun. Good cast.
Radio ad for the Co-op.
Directing comedy duo 'The Teak Show'.
'Aharr' in Finals of Stratford Upon Avon Film Festival.
Review of 'Ahaarr' from Mid Ulster Film Festival:
- 'Written by and starring top English voice over and actor Jonathan Kydd, Ahaarrr! Is a hilarious comedy that explores the almost horrific and frequently humiliating world of voice over advertising.'
VO for Miss Potter Film being networked.
I've broken my wrist so no Jonny Kydd gigs in the near future! Don't play guitar in the Dentists so no problem there. In fact the cast looks good for the act!
Consequently mooted 'Wart' shoot (my follow-up to 'Aharr!') and other sketches for squyddtv all on hold..
Singing Dentist gigs at Park Arts Project and The Etcetera Theatre a big success.
Dentists playing the Perseverance in Marylebone on 24th May and the Camden Fringe Festival on 7th and 8th August.
'Love Glove and 'Come Bung' short spoof ads for squyddtv almost fnished. (written by me and starring Cathy Cogle and myself. Cathy is also singing in the Singing Dentists and is terrific.)
Actimel and New L'Oreal Revitalift ads out on the box.
Cartoon: Hannah's Helpline for Siriol
'Ahaarr' my short written by me and starring me(!) in the Finals of the DIY Film Festival in LA, Critics choice at 'First Sundays' in LA, made the Finals of the ECU Film Festival in Paris, the 'End of the Pier Show' in Bognor, (!) the Alex Film Festival in Southampton, and is in the Finals at the Mid Ulster Film Festival....so far!
It's been entered for about twenty festivals.
'Singing Dentists Vid' of 'Put My Tongue In' now being edited. Up soon on You Tube and myspace
Jonny Kydd gigs at Soho House on Monday April 16th and at the Ram jam Club Tuesday 17th. See more at www.kyddmusic.co.uk or myspace.com/jonnykydd
Ian Sach's fantastic animation of dentists song 'Good in Bed' almost completed.
My embryonic production company (with Clive Coleman) 'Gaffa' has been looking at scripts for the past year and a half and one we've been putting a lot of attention into is 'A Little Rain' by Phil Sanders. It's looking as if it may take off. Ben Miles is interested in it as is Sarah Parris. Watch this space.
Sketches for comedy pilot 'SquyddTV' recorded and being edited. 'Love Glove' and 'Cum Bung' up soon on You Tube. More to be filmed in May/June
L'Oreal 'Collagen Filler' being networked
Anglia Windows being networked
PG Tips Radio
Yellow Pages Radio
Voice of the Robot in 'Crysis'
Voices for film 'Flushed Away'
Voices for film 'Pirates of the Carribean 3'
Voices for Hallmark
L'Oreal Revitalift TV ad (the fastest read I've ever done on telly) still running, as are the Zovirax,
L'Oreal Age Perfect and Age Perfect Foundation (the ones with Jane Fonda in em)
Voices for Homechoice
All the voices on New Strepsils ad which is networked
Follow up to 'Ahaarr!' is now called 'Wart' to be shot soon.
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