Premier League Anthem

The Premier League wanted one piece of music at the centre of every matchday, from the broadcast open to the moments inside the stadium. The difficulty was reach. The competition is followed by well over a billion people who don't share a language, so the anthem had to feel true to English football and still land with someone watching their first match on the other side of the world.

We created an anthem that celebrates British musical heritage. Strings for the prestige of the competition. Live guitars to keep it raw and human rather than polished and corporate. A gospel choir for lift and soul. The anthem plays before every Premier League kick off week in, week out, so it had to build anticipation without tipping into anything too bombastic.

We recorded at Abbey Road and The Church Studios with 83 musicians and technicians, an orchestra and a live gospel choir among them. The timing gave it something extra. We tracked it as soon as we could after the first 2020 lockdown lifted, so this was more than 80 people back in a room together after months of everyone working alone. That energy is in the take.

Brief to final master ran to about nine months. It was mixed and mastered for broadcast, so it holds up everywhere the Premier League plays, from a stadium PA to a phone in a loud room.