Tickle Entertainment Ltd is the official production wing of celebrated, multi award-winning music producer and engineer, David Tickle.
Throughout an illustrious 47-year-career, David has worked with some of the industry’s biggest names, including Blondie, Prince, Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Split Enz, U2, Sting, Joe Cocker, Belinda Carlisle, The Police, Toni Childs and The Divinyls.
His contributions include producing and engineering more than 40 Platinum and Gold award-winning albums, providing front of house sound to live tours, including Prince’s 1984 Purple Rain Tour which played 98 dates to 1.7million fans, and he has provided his own inhouse 5.1 Studio Surround Sound to the likes of The Police’s Greatest Hits, Sheryl Crowe’s The Globe Sessions and Sting’s Nothing Like the Sun.
In addition, David has produced and contributed to 17 plus original soundtracks, including the Emmy award winning The Vagina Monologues, and Alfie with Jude law, with music by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart.
David also developed 5.1 surround sound for music for DTS digital theatre systems and introduced surround music to a number of films, the first ones being Cruel Intentions and The Wild Thornberrys. He is currently working with Italian film producer Andrea Iervolino as Head of Music and Executive Producer, whose recent titles include Michael Mann’s Ferrari starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz.
This partnership is now involved in the production of premium factual television and documentary series out of London, where David is producing two seasons of The Unknown Chef (WT).
The first, a 4-part docuseries, charts the personal stories of four refugees who have arrived in the UK and turned to the food of their homeland to establish successful street food businesses that celebrate the power of cookery to transcend boundaries and borders.
The second season is a further celebration of the UK’s global food scene, taking the Spice Road as its inspiration and discovering the unknown chefs who have brought the food and cookery of their heritage to the UK, charting how it has influenced a nation’s food culture.
Both are produced in conjunction with Nicola Allieta, producer of NETFLIX docuseries SanPa: Sins of the Saviour, and distribution arm Tatatu.