Live From Abbey Road, Essential TV For Music Lovers

The hugely successful independent music TV series Live From Abbey Road is delighted to announce that this week’s shows feature the absolute best of the BRIT and Grammy Award nominated artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, The Feeling, Gnarls Barkley and The Killers.

With Live From Abbey Road’s first ever Sunday night showing, show 5, featuring stunning performances from BRIT Award nominated The Feeling plus Gnarls Barkley and The Killers both nominated for Grammy and BRIT Awards, will air at 11:40pm on Sunday 18 February on Channel 4.

Also showing this week on More 4, Friday 16 February at 11:05pm and Channel 4, Monday 19 February at 11.55pm is show 6 featuring mega Grammy winning and BRIT Award nominated Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol nominated for both Grammy and BRIT Awards plus the enchanting chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux.

The pure power, class of sound and visually stunning cinematography of the Live From Abbey Road series has made it a firm favourite with music lovers around the UK, and just halfway through the series the show has now been set to broadcast on Xyz and ABC channels in Australia and NHK in Japan as well as starting in the Sundance US in June. This international appeal and confidence in the show content is what makes Live From Abbey Road the most unique music TV series.

Inspired by the 75th Anniversary of the world famous Abbey Road studios, Live From Abbey Road is a 12x60 minute music TV series independently produced for a worldwide audience and showcases the highest quality global talent.

Live From Abbey Road is creatively ambitious, set to break new ground for music on television and aims to sound like an album and look like a movie. Each 60 minute show has three artists, there is no studio audience and no host, but features each musician speaking about their work, and showing behind the scenes footage of the musicians working on their performance and leading to the performance. Shot with 35mm lenses in the intimacy of the famous Studios 1 & 2 at Abbey Road, the recordings are designed to look like succinct music movies, giving a personal insight direct into the mystical world of music and its makers.

The impressive list of artists who have recorded performances for Live From Abbey Road bear out the producers commitment to displaying the cream of musical talent, whatever the genre, from around the world. It includes A-list artists such as Paul Simon, Dr John, David Gilmour, plus newer artists like Corinne Bailey Rae, The Kooks, Snow Patrol and Kasabian to name just a few. The line-up for the remaining shows is as follows:

Show 5: The Feeling / Gnarls Barkley / The Killers
Show 6: Snow Patrol / Madeleine Peyroux / Red Hot Chili Peppers
Show 7: The Kooks / Wynton Marsalis / Muse
Show 8: Amos Lee / Randy Crawford / David Gilmour
Show 9: Ray Lamontagne / The Zutons / Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot
Show 10: Craig David / James Morrison / Dave Matthews
Show 11: John Mayer / Norah Jones / Richard Ashcroft
Show 12: The Gypsy Kings / Natasha Bedingfield / Iron Maiden

Peter Van Hooke and Michael Gleason, producers of Live From Abbey Road, have received tremendous support from the music industry, which recognises the value of this new music TV series for its artists, especially as it will be broadcast internationally. Fremantle International Distribution (FID)is handling the global distribution of Live From Abbey Road and has already signed the series to the Sundance Channel in the US.

Live From Abbey Road began filming in May 2006 under the direction of Annabel Jankel, famed for her co-creation of Max Headroom, she commented: “From the start we have aimed to make each show have the look, feel and atmosphere of a music movie made for TV. We shoot with 35 mm lenses and have different lighting set-ups for each artist – the performance dictates the production.”

Live From Abbey Road, which is produced under license from EMI, the owner of Abbey Road Studios, will be broadcast internationally across the Americas, Japan, Europe and Asia.

Find out more by visiting Livefromabbeyroad.com.

Co-produced by Michael Gleason and Peter Van Hooke
Directed by Annabel Jankel