Ken Bolam

Ken Bolam is a British film and TV composer who has worked extensively over the past twenty years. He is best known for his work on popular TV shows such as Ready Steady Cook (BBCTV), Derren Brown - The Events (Channel Four), and The Cube (ITV1), as well as on the BAFTA award-winning Jim Henson TV series The Hoobs. Recent work includes many credits for TV shows written together with Nick Foster.

Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, he played the North East circuit in the 70s as a singer-songwriter, before moving to London to teach Drama in the East End, going on to compose music for theatre, film and TV.

In 1994 he teamed up with Initial Film and Television (part of Endemol UK) as Music Supervisor, Associate Producer and Executive Producer, working on numerous projects including The White Room (Channel Four), Club Class (Channel Five), and Roll With It (Flextech).

He was instrumental in the setting up of Initial Kids and the production of Miami 7 (BBC), Cleopatra's Comin' Atcha, and Wild Track for ITV. He then headed up Global Talent TV with Chris Cowey, executive-producing Urbanation (Nation 277/Sky TV) and G4 at the Royal Albert Hall (DVD Sony Music). He was also responsible for brokering music publishing administration deals for Endemol, Initial, Zeal, and Whizzkid Entertainment. He is currently working on a number of projects with Nick Foster, one of which is the development of HomeMade Music.

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