Home Fires Theme is played on the Clare Balding Radio 2 show

Home Fires Theme Music

(13.5.17 – Updated Sheet Music Link!)

This morning Clare Balding joined the many people who have contacted me, pleading live on Radio 2 for the theme music from the ITV Drama Home Fires to be released commercially. Well obviously she didn’t contact me herself…..sigh…..

Lots of people would like to get their hands on a copy of the sheet music too!

Here’s what she said:

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Such is its popularity, that by today, 89 people have shared the link I posted on Facebook of the audio file from composer Samuel Sim’s Soundcloud profile. Nearly 4000 people have been reached – with no promotion apart from the original share at all!

My Partner’s sister (a very accomplished musician herself) was the first person to email me:

“Just been listening to the theme from Home Fires on Soundcloud, and I saw you were on it!! Great stuff Heather! Is the sheet music available yet? One of my choir is hoping we can learn it…”

On facebook people started asking me for the sheet music and I wrote to Samuel to ask him if it would be available in that format. He replied ”

“I’ve had an extremely positive reaction to the Home Fires music, so thank you once again for your beautiful singing! Hopefully I’ll be able to release the sheet music at some point, but I have to get approval from the several publishers that seem to be taking an increasing interest in it!
I’ll keep you posted.”

And now the lovely Clare Balding has called for its release!

She’s a national treasure for goodness sake! So I’m keeping my fingers crossed (for no other reason than I could claim the small PPL income from play on radio 2) – watch this space.

For me it was just another demo session – Micaela Haslam (Musical Director of Synergy Vocals) booked the four singers. I was lucky enough to be joined by a top team of session singers: Grace Davidson, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Rachel Weston) and we turned up at Angel Studios with the brief that Samuel Sim (The Mill, Coalition, Touch Of Cloth) wanted to record a few ideas in different ways so that he could put them together for a pitch to ITV. He was submitting music to try to become the composer for a new series called Home Fires. We often do this for TV and Ads but, to be honest, not many are successful.

First we recorded the four individual parts together as a quartet and then tracked them up. We then swapped music stands, sung the next part and did this again until we had all sung every one of the four parts. (I had to leave a couple of notes out of the top part as soprano I ain’t!)

Clare Balding credited us on Radio 2 as the choir – but there were really only four of us.

For those of you who haven’t heard it in good quality, here it is:

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UPDATE : by popular demand, here’s the link to download the Sheet Music only (with thanks to Linda for the updated link!)

(correct apostrophe placement provided by Martha from Toas MN!)

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on Home Fires Theme Music.

Martha Frizlanger
20/10/2015 @ 07:51
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Where can I get the vocal and instrumental sheet music for this? I want a women’s group I’m in to sing it.
- Heather
  20/10/2015 @ 16:26
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  Hi Martha
  You can download the sheet Music here: http://vibedeck.com/samuelsim/home-fires-main-theme-sheet-music-only
JeriLynn
02/11/2015 @ 22:07
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Heather, is there another location or way available for download of the sheet music? Nothing happens when I click on the link for download.
I absolutely tear up every single time I hear this.
- Heather
  03/11/2015 @ 08:43
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  Strange – Just worked for me……trey this http://vibedeck.com/samuelsim/home-fires-main-theme-sheet-music-only
- Heather
  03/11/2015 @ 08:51
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  Hmmm……yes I see what you mean. You can contact Samuel on his website here http://samuelsim.com/contacts.php
  I’ll try writing to him and ask. Let me know if he gives you another link.
Heather
03/11/2015 @ 10:19
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Samuel wrote back – it’s all fixed now so please use the same link.
- JeriLynn
  03/11/2015 @ 16:28
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  Thank you Heather & Mr. Sim!! I will contact our music teacher straight away!!
Denise Brown
03/04/2016 @ 22:12
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I love that music I’m hoping it will be released soon.
- Heather
  04/04/2016 @ 09:08
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  I believe a CD is in the production line!
  - RoseN
    19/04/2016 @ 00:06
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    Wonderful news – I was hooked the minute I first heard it.
Angela Ralling
25/04/2016 @ 23:47
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It’s very reminiscent of a (one off, I believe) CD I have, by an all female group of singers called ‘Damsel Jam’, which is totally amazing.
Jean Price
26/05/2016 @ 10:54
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Hi, do you know if I can get the sheet music for the full version of this? It’s called Siren, it’s so beautiful our choir would love to sing it.
- Heather
  27/05/2016 @ 19:10
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  Hi Jenny
  did you see the final comment at the bottom of this post – “UPDATE : by popular demand, here’s the link to download the Sheet Music only.” It links to http://vibedeck.com/samuelsim/home-fires-main-theme-sheet-music-only where you can buy the sheet music. Happy singing!
Rhiannon Bone
31/05/2016 @ 11:56
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Hi, the link is only for the actual theme – the first 1:30 of the song “Siren” from the CD. I’ve absolutely loved singing it (on my own at the moment, but will hopefully be meeting with some friends to sing with all 4 parts soon – excited!), but it would be great to be able to sing through the full song as the middle section is amazing as well! Do you know if there are plans for the score for the full song to be released any time?
- Heather
  31/05/2016 @ 12:11
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  I’m afraid you’ll have to contact the composer direct for that – he is the only person who knows. http://samuelsim.com/contacts.php
  Please do update us all if you have any luck!