Since 1978 Mike has been a professional arranger and composer working for many artists in Television, Recording, Films, Theatre and Cabaret. He has received numerous credits as an arranger and orchestrator, a composer, or as a conductor, musical director and record producer. He co-composed, arranged and conducted the music for the award-winning animated television series for children, "SuperTed", which won world-wide acclaim.

He has been closely associated with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in recent years as an arranger, and his arrangements for this orchestra and others are often hired out and performed by Concert and Radio Orchestras in many countries worldwide. During his career he has developed his talent for writing in a variety of musical styles, from string quartets and light classical pieces to full-scale symphonic film scores and from jazz, big band and pop/rock, to country-and-western, music-hall/variety and folk.

Mike's abilities have earned him a respected reputation in the industry and his experience. as an arranger coupled with his fondness for displaying a sense of humour musically within his orchestrations make him particularly well suited to arranging the musical score of “Plague” – even if he were not the father of one of the writers!