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Kit Warhurst is an active participant in the Australian Music Scene and is currently a band member and composer for Rocket Science, The Bowerbirds and Spoonful. These, and other outfits have taken him on extensive tours across the UK, Europe, America, Japan and Australia. Kit has a songwriter/composer publishing deal with Mushroom Publishing. Acts that Kit's bands have toured with include Supergrass, Kings Of Leon, The Darkness, The Dirtbombs, You Am I, The Vines, as well as playing such festivals as Reading, Big Day Out, Livid, Falls, V Fest, Meredith and Splendor In The Grass. Kit's band songs have been used in numerous Australian Film Scores and television shows (Underbelly, The Secret Life Of Us, Offspring, Neighbours, Home and Away etc). Kit has also been composing and producing soundtracks for film and television. Credits in this area include "Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight", "John Safran's Census Guide", "Merrick And Rosso's 'The B Team' series on channel 10, "The Merrick and Rosso Show" on Foxtel, "The Urban Monkey" for Sam Simmons on ABC, "The Bounce" for Channel 7, and well as stage music for the Spicks And Specks live national tour, Adam Hills, Will Anderson and Dave Hughes. The Bowers have their second album "in the can" and will release mid year. Kit has begun recording songs which will be the first offerings of a solo project.

David Chapman is a founding partner and Senior Composer at ZigZag Lane. David has been writing music for television, film and advertising for nearly twenty years. He has been nominated for Best Television Theme on four occasions, winning with 'Enough Rope' in 2003. He has also received several nominations for Best Station ID and Best Music in a Television Commercial.

Cliff Bradley has written music for countless productions, including the Spierig Brotherʼs cult zombie flick, Undead, the childrenʼs animated TV series, FARMkids, and the massive multi-million dollar stage show on Australiaʼs Gold Coast, The Australian Outback Spectacular.

As an undergraduate he studied classical guitar with the highly respected guitar tutor Isolde Schaupp at the University of Queensland, whilst also studying composition with Dr. Philip Bracanin. Further study in film composition came at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2001 under well known Australian composer Nigel Westlake (Babe, Miss Potter). During that year Cliff composed the music for The Creepy Crawleys, by talented film-maker Beck Cole, which won the "Best Music for a Documentary" award at the 2002 APRA Screen Music Awards, and marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. This association has now spanned a decade, and recently included Beckʼs directorial feature film debut, Here I Am.

Cliff continues to work as a film and television composer, whilst also being in demand as an experienced orchestrator and arranger.

Haydn Walker started playing guitar at age 11 before going on to study guitar with Carl Orr. He completed his Honours degree in composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied under Michael Smetanin.

He represented Australia in the highly prestigious Paris International Rostrum of Composers and has been a contributor composing, arranging and/or performing with various artists including Inga Liljestrom, Grinspoon, Darren Hayes and the Potbelleez.

He composed the IF nominated musical score for the critically acclaimed and awarded (IF Awards Best Film winner) Men's Group.

Haydn is currently a composer and Creative Director at Song Zu Studios.

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