WE MAKE THEATRE OF THE AIR. SHOULDN'T THAT INCLUDE A THEATRICAL SOUNDTRACK?

A flying display is about more than just the flying: it’s everything that the spectators see and hear. The commentary and soundtrack deserves the same rigorous attention to detail as the flying displays themselves, as only an immersive soundtrack can fully unleash the entertainment potential of flying display performers.

I cut my teeth as a regular commentator and host with PlanesTV, before starting out as a true airshow commentator in 2024. In my first season, just months after my debut commentary at SleapKosh, the UK’s biggest fly-in, I was invited to co-commentate at Thunder Over the Heartland in the USA. The following year, I joined the commentary team at the prestigious Shuttleworth Collection, and in 2026 I had the honour of co-commentating at the world-famous Farnborough International Airshow. I have also commentated at the Jersey International Air Display, Longleat Icons of the Sky, Wings Over Western Kentucky, the Little Gransden Air & Car Show and Antidotum Airshow Leszno.

Although I am a hardcore avgeek at heart, taking great care to ensure factual accuracy and do justice to the impressive technical feats and storied histories of the aircraft we see perform, I believe that it is more important for airshow audiences to enjoy themselves than to be educated. We put on aerial theatre, not lectures or lessons. And with that in mind, I’ve set out to offer something a bit different: a highly-choreographed, music-led soundtrack, with each music track customised and timed to precisely match the display routine of the flying display performances, woven together with polished narration into a single cohesive soundtrack truly feels like a part of the show. All this is while being suitably sympathetic to engine sounds, of course, and for warbird displays it is common for me to fall completely silent for minutes at a time and let the engine note reverberate across the crowd unsullied by music of voice.

Unlike the vast majority of airshow commentators in Europe, I self-produce my own audio feed and bring my own equipment. My microphones are selected for airshows alone and are the gold standard for clear outside broadcasting in noisy environments, to ensure excellent audio quality and maximum resilience to engine sounds, while the audio system and playlists are set up in advance, before I even arrive at the venue. This means that you – the show – do not need to hire a producer, mixing desks or microphones. I will provide a fully-produced, balanced line level output for onward distribution to your PA system; all I need from you is a power supply, a table, confirmation that you hold a PRS licence and an XLR cable to take my feed for onward distribution.

My commentary product is adaptable to the requirements and mood of your show; the music-led approach isn’t right everywhere.