Steve Richardson
As a top TV session musician, Steve has worked extensively for the BBC, LWT, Central and Granada Television, and was the resident Bass player for BBC’s
Pebble Mill at One. With over 30 years in the music business, Steve has worked with a huge array of artists - too many to mention, but they range from Shirley Bassey to The Spice Girls, Ruthie Henshall to Michael Ball, George Mellie to Gerard Kenny, and Basil Brush to The Two Ronnies…! Steve has toured and recorded extensively throughout Europe with the Jazz Rock Band
New York and is the Bass player for the American Guitar legend, Jerry Donahue.
He has also played for numerous West End shows and played Guitar and Chapman Stick for the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of
Death of a Salesman. On the classical front, Steve has played and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Radio Orchestra. Rumour has it, Steve has also been spotted in an episode
Peak Practice on the Double Bass…
Tansy Aked
As well as composing with Steve, Tansy has spent the last decade at the top end of the musical theatre world as a Musical Director, Pianist and keyboard player for over 40 shows. Encompassing the West–End, The National Theatre, UK and European tours, shows have included
Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Fame,
Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Beauty & the Beast, La Cage aux Folles, Scrooge, Evita, The Blues Brothers, The Rat Pack, Me & My Girl, and
Cats to name but a few
. Tansy is currently Musical Director for the West-End cabaret show
Too Darn Hot, performing to sell-out audiences, most recently at the South Bank's Queen Elizabeth Hall. As a Musical Director and pianist at The Natianal Theatre, Tansy has worked on such acclaimed productions as
The Princes Play, Amy’s View and
Closer, and as a session musician, has made many recordings for Film, TV and Radio. Tansy has also appeared on The Lottery with Michael Crawford, and on a late night chat show with a cross-dressing Mrs Malaprop...!
