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Influences & Inspirations

Music and Autism: Creating a school song for the charity Prior’s Court

Back in 2016, I contributed a small amount of piano and guitar to the soundtrack of Nick Kelly’s film The Drummer and the Keeper. Set in Dublin, it’s a tale of an unlikely friendship forged between Gabriel, a renegade drummer suffering from bipolar and recovering from his mother’s death, and Christopher, a teenager with Asperger’s. Christopher lives in a residential school alongside children with similar developmental disorders, he meets Gabriel at a mixed ability football session which Gabriel has been…