Writers

DWB

are Paul Drew, Greig Watts and Pete Barringer, having worked together since 2006 they have written and produced tracks for Kate Ryan, D-Side, Born Crain, Anna Tsuchiya, Katerine, SS501, Tohoshinki amongst many others. They work out of studio's in Surrey, England, more details about them in the Publishing and Production sections of this site.

CHICKS WITH HITS

CWH are Phillipa Alexander and Ellie Wyatt (top line and lyric writers), who have signed exclusively to DWB MUSIC LTD. They have written hits for artists such as Eve Kempbell (2BRAINS, Belgium), Natalia (Sony/Bmg, Belgium/Germany), Priscilla (Jive - France), Elin (Edel -Germany), Katerine (Universal -Belgium), Fransisca London (Sunshine - USA - Number 1) amongst others. The Chicks have also had their tracks featured on many us tv shows including, "Desperate Housewives" & "Grey's Anatomy"! in 2011, Kato recorded their song THE JOKER which was the Summerhit of 2011 and reached number 3 in the Sales charts and number 1 in the airplay!

The chicks have also recently been co-writing with Sweetbox, Hind and Safiya, and just got one of the songs signed up for the Pixar film, CARS 2!

IAN CURNOW

Having been a session keyboard player and arranger, Ian spent 3 years with Talk Talk as keyboard player, MD and co-writer. Then he became main keyboard player for the hugely successful Stock Aitken and Waterman team during their massive success period. After that Ian co-produced of most of the E17 output with Phil Harding, including the Xmas UK No.1 single Stay Another Day, and also co-wrote a number of their songs. Since then Ian has written songs for various artists including SClub 8 (UK No3) and produced tracks for Liberty X, Girls Aloud and Robin Gibb, among others, as well as doing music for various TV companies and TV ads around the world for brands such as Nokia.
These days he works mainly from his own studios in Suffolk and Docklands but is also happy to work in any of the major studios if required.

More recently Ian has a track just released on the Kate Ryan album, Free. This is a duet with spanish diva, Soraya and will be released as a single in Spain. Ian also recently penned Darren Style's Hit, GIRLS LIKE YOU. Timothy James (sony/bmg -germany), has also recorded, Ian's track, "Winter story" for his upcoming album release. Ian has also recently been co-writing songs with Sweetbox , Hind, EXAMPLE and DJ Dougal. Ian's song and production, "Lollipop" hit number 1 in Japan's digital/ringtone charts for the artist KUMI KODA.

BILL PADLEY

In 2006 he was awarded the most prestigious and sought after of accolades, an Ivor Novello Award for his co-write of the massive Xmas 2005 no. 1 hit ‘Thats my Goal’ by Shayne Ward. The track spent 4 weeks at number 1, sold 1.3 million copies in the UK, and is recorded as being one of the fastest selling UK singles ever, and is still the biggest-selling X Factor winning song. No stranger to receiving nominations, by the time he picked up his award in 2006, his outstanding talent for songwriting had already been recognised and nominated by both the Ivor Novello, and the Brit Award Panels an impressive 6 times!

What else has Bill been involved in ?
• Co-wrote ‘Whole Again’ for Atomic Kitten, & was responsible for the production & mix on the International hit version. ‘Whole Again’ won Bill 2 Ivor Novello nominations, as well as selling more than 2 million copies worldwide, & spending 4 weeks at UK no.1.
• Produced, as well as writing the new ‘Get the feeling’ section on the Atomic Kitten single ‘Tide is High (Get the Feeling)’ - the result being another UK no. 1, spending 3 weeks at the top of the chart, & charting in the USA Billboard Chart.
• Produced the huge airplay record ‘Kiss Kiss’ by Holly Valance, which went to no.1 in the UK & Australia, & charted top 10 all across Europe.
• Co-wrote, & produced the track ‘Best in Me’ on the massive No 1, & 4x Platinum Award winning album ‘All Rise’ by Blue.
• Co-wrote ‘Free’ on the 2 x Platinum Award album ‘Sanctuary’ by Simon Webbe.
• Success in America, with four tracks on Play's hit album ‘Replay’, & Atomic Kitten's ‘Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)’ spending months in the Disney Radio Top 20 after featuring on the multi platinum ’Lizzie McGuire’ Soundtrack album.

CHRISTOPHER WORTLEY

Chris joined us as a DWB Writer in 2010 (track, top-line and lyrics). He’s been working closely with us over the last year or so and has now become an integral part of the team, with a number of co-writes to his name including:- Learn How to Fly - which Vanesse Wu is recording for his next album - and a further cut, Bluetooth, which is to be recorded by an exciting new artist, just signed to Jay Z's label, Roc-A-fella. Chris recently had his song, Handbags and Razorblades cut by I.D.A. in Sweden.
 
BRYAN STEELE
Is a song writer and producer who has worked closely with Irish star Darren Holden. Steele produced and co-wrote most of Holden's latest release "Roadworks". Steele's most recent work has been with Jill Gioia, who appeared on CBS's Rockstar Supernova, and with the UK singer James Fox (who is currently working on his first Universal Records release). Look for 3-4 of his co-writes on that release. Bryan also penned a new track , 3D Girl for Japanese boy group Kiss my ft 2, which reached number 1 in the DVD charts.

As well as:
Ricky Hanley
Georgie Dennis
Sean Alexander
Bruce R.F.Smith
Jack Rubinacci
Douglas Shawe
Jussi Nikula
JONO BUCHANAN
Hannu Korkeamaki
John Wheatley and Pascal Magdinier
Derek Ryan (formerly of D-side)
Gordon Davis