I have been producing, recording, playing and promoting music for five decades.
I've composed music for corporate productions and television. I’ve played in various bands and had solo music projects. I have also built websites to promote cds and download sales and performances.
Back in the 90s I composed seven pieces of music for the Blackpool Tower Laser Fantasy, which ran five times a day seven days a week. The show was about the history of lasers and was narrated by Tom Baker of Dr Who Fame.
The Trisha show was broadcast every weekday from 2006 to 2010 on channel 5 in the UK. TownHouse TV commissioned me to compose music for the show.
Molson and Disco Mirror sponsored the Club of the Year awards at the Birmingham Metropole Hotel.
The events were hosted by Jonathan Ross, year one, and Noel Edmonds, year two. I produced the music for the opening video,
which featured members of the judging panel plus an outline of the categories.
Award categories included: regional awards, supplier awards, personnel awards, best club manager,
best lighting and disc jockey. Awards were also given for the new concept venue and the club of the year.
I also produced the winners' fanfare and played as the proud winners took the stage.
I composed the ident music used on the Nicotinell patch advertising campaign and at worldwide launch events.
I also produced music for Ciba Geigy's incentive events in the UK. The sales team would win a trip to Hong Kong if they reached their targets. The sales management team invited me to join them in Hong Kong, as they felt that my music helped motivate the sales representatives to win the trip.
Kashmir - 'The Light' was recorded at Spaceward Studios in Cambridge, UK.
15th December 1979
Engineered by Mike Kemp.
Kashmir were the first rock band to play at the Theatre Royal in
Bury St Edmunds.
We recorded our first single, ‘The Light,’ at a professional recording studio in Cambridge in 1979 when I was nineteen;
I loved the experience so much that I knew I wanted this to be my career.
Recorded 5th March 1983 at the Pyramid studio.
This song was inspired by the George Orwell novel 1984 and the Room 101
Room 101, introduced in the climax of the novel, is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love,
in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to their own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the objective of breaking down their resistance.
Red Beryl and the Plastic Attic is an array of eclectic, acoustic, vintage tracks.
Red Beryl & the Plastic Attic performing their take on
Prince's classic 'Kiss'
Red Beryl & the Plastic Attic performing their take on
Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Killing Moon'
Red Beryl and the Plastic Attic
Just Can't Get Enough (cover) - (by Depeche Mode)
Jackie Heffer-Cooke -
Lead vocals.
Nigel Turner-Heffer - Backing vocals and instruments.
In 2007 I joined Code Indigo, an electronica band with a Pink Floyd guitar feel.
The CD 'MELTdown' was released in 2013. The album was launched at the E-live music festival in Eindhoven Holland.
I also played guitar and bass guitar on David Wright’s ‘Dreams and Distant Moonlight’ album, which won the best international CD at the German Schallwelle awards in 2008.
In 2016, I decided I wanted another shot at writing three-minute guitar-based songs again after playing for the electronic music band Code Indigo.
I launched my solo project under the name Nigel Turner.
This track, ‘The Moon Don’t Shine,’ was inspired by my search for the truth behind Christianity as a teenager and finding
a lot of false statements in the bible.
I know many people find great comfort in their faith, each to their own. I was raised in a very religious household,
and this was my search for the truth.
If you are questioning your Christianity I would suggest visiting this great YouTube channel. Really honest debate from both sides of the argument.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtheistExperience
This song is about Ray Comfort. In 2006, Comfort recorded a segment for The Way of the Master's television show in which he
argued that the banana was "the atheist's nightmare", arguing that it displayed many user-friendly features that were evidence of
intelligent design.
It is humorously foolish, so much so that Comfort has since taken to using it as a joke himself.
This song has had over nine-thousand veiws on my Facebook page.
I owned my first home recording studio set up back in 1986 and still own a home recording studio today.
Home studios were very different in those early days. I've watched this fascinating and absorbing subject grow into something truly
amazing over the years. The advances in home studio and live performance technology are profoundly astonishing.
I have had the privilege of teaching guitar and performance technology to several young artists.
I taught a band from Bury St Edmunds called Jacob's Mouse when they were all 12 years old.
The band went on to support Nirvana when they played in Norwich. A very proud moment indeed.
Hugo Boothby (Jacob's Mouse)
'Taking guitar lessons with you and the work you did with Jebb,
Sam, Glynn and I was life changing for me.
You are a wonderful teacher and I am sure there are many people and institutions that would benefit hugely
from your experience and expertise.'
