Tom Cross and Adam Burgess

Adam Burgess and Tom Cross are two thirds of the production house Contraband Media. Together with Music Director Small Paul, Adam and Tom have built Contraband into one of the UK's leading independent radio imaging companies with market-leading clients here and in the US, New Zealand and Australia. This year they were nominated in the 2017 Audible Audio Production Awards. Business advice for you if you fancy leaving your salaried job and setting-up your own production company or entering the freelance world. How they made the transition from Tech Ops on Southern England's Power FM to Imaging Producers and then directors of their own business. Production secrets of their branded song intros from BBC Radio 1, the Nick Grimshaw Breakfast Show openers and their Imaging Blueprint CHR imaging service. Their work for Radio 1 is puzzle of micro-editing, pitch-shifting, tuned voices, soft synths and the cheekiest individual syllables smuggled from song lyrics. We also enjoy an award winning radio ad for one of the most famous FMCG brands in Britain.