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The Current World Population Clock…   Last Blog, I mentioned that I’d stumbled across the online “Current World Population Clock” – https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ – and, having done so, I think I’d like to find a way to un-stumble-upon-it! There’s no point me relating all the facts and figures ticking over on this morbidly fascinating algorithm, because the numbers change so fast and frequently, by the time I’ve only begun to write... View Article

    Sometimes, I really do, do, that old cliche’d thing and lose track of what day – or month, year or even decade – it is. Is this old age creeping up on me? My legendary 3 nano-second attention span? A result of listening to far too much rock over the past 50 something years? Nope – I think I have what I call “what’s next-i-tis”. Allow me to... View Article

  For this blog, I thought I’d write something without editing it in any way to see what happened. Because life really is too short to edit the sh*t out of it, huh? So this’ll be something like a voice-over ‘stream of consciousness’ as opposed to anything to do with trying to ‘get myself into favour’ with our lord Google or any other search engine, or to boost my SEO... View Article

Feel free to read the full blog below or let Greg, the best male voiceover artist in the UK (probably), read it to you…   I sometimes have no idea where anything I’ve voiced might eventually end up. Which sounds really odd considering that usually, at the very least, there’s the name of the client, product or service on the script somewhere (but not always), maybe some dates, times, places, a catchphrase, strap-line,... View Article

You may have been writing, crafting and editing the documentary, narrative, e-learning module, on-hold messages/IVR’s (Interactive Voice Responses), explainer or commercial for the voice-over you’ve booked for some time. You’ve probably ‘lived’ with the idea, concept, format and content for perhaps days, weeks or even months, going over and over it to ensure the text says just what you want it say, whether it’s to sell, explain, entertain or extol... View Article

You know what you want to say. You’ve located the definitive voice-over artist you need to read your text, and you’ve decided you want to book them. Should you do so via an online agency they might be registered with? Or is it better to deal direct? There are several different schools of thought for clients wishing to engage a voice-over to read their script… Online Agency Most online agencies... View Article

    Well, am I? I often ask myself, how do I actually know that all the scripts and words I voice for clients – from the likes of the BBC to Fred’s Fish Shop – make me a “good” voice-over? In my 30+ years’ experience in this biz, rarely has any agency person, booking person or client contacted me post-session/recording to say they “really liked what I did”. Or... View Article

    So, you’ve potentially hired a voice-over to promote/inform people about your product or service. You have also probably discussed and agreed a price, talked about a deadline and have an idea as to how you want the v/o to sound when they’re voicing your script. Now, you need a decent script! If you don’t have the necessary skills to write a good script containing the correct number of... View Article

April 1st – I’m standing here at my uppy-downy desk in an endeavour to persuade my phalanges to fly across a wireless keyboard and write this first episode in a new series of blogs, telling tales, tall and true, of my 30 something years worth of experience in the broadcasting and, more specifically, voice-over industry.   Speaking of ‘episodes’, to coin a phrase used at the beginning of many instalments... View Article

The phrase from the title of this blog, ladies and gentlemen, is one which often falls from the lips of many an agency executive, copywriter, writer-writer, client and any number of other people who might gather in a recording studio to direct, brief and/or produce a commercial or narrative, the script for which I’m usually given about two seconds before standing in front of the mike.   Sometimes, the script... View Article