AWARD winning film composer David Arnold, with five Bond blockbusters among his many credits, is to play a short tour of intimate club gigs, sharing behind-the-scenes secrets of his big screen songs.

Backed by a six-piece band rather than the usual orchestra, the Grammy, Ivor Novello and BAFTA award winner plans to include soundtrack songs spanning his career – singing them himself.

Arnold is one of the UK’s leading film and TV composers, writing for Pierce Brosnan Bond movies Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, and both Daniel Craig’s Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

Casino Royale theme You Know My Name, sung by the late Soundgarden rock frontman Chris Cornell, was a major chart success, and Arnold memorably performed the song with Cornell live in London’s Hyde Park.

US band Garbage also scored a worldwide hit with The World Is Not Enough, from Brosnan’s penultimate outing as superspy 007.

Arnold has written for box office hits including Independence Day, Godzilla, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Narnia adventure Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and was musical director for the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony, starring The Who, Ed Sheeran, Queen and The Spice Girls.

The composer says he plans to put the spotlight on his own songs ‘with the voice that wrote them’, compiling a setlist featuring his most notable compositions, fan favourites – plus some surprises – and the stories behind them.

From that packed night at the Olympic Stadium – now home to Premiership side West Ham United – to shows in clubs and pubs may seem like a leap, but it is one Arnold relishes.

“My earliest musical memories were of songs,” says Arnold. “I think song is the finest of all art forms. As a songwriter I see them conceived, developed and delivered into the world.

“From that point on they stop being mine. They become part of the fabric of a film, a show or someone else’s record. Principally, though, they belong to the audience.

“This is a way of me revisiting the early years of these songs, reclaiming them for an evening, sharing the stories behind them and doing my best to give some insight as to how, and why, they came into existence.

“Most unusually, I’ll be singing them in my own voice – the first voice anyone hears when I deliver a new song but a voice that the public never does get to hear.”

As well as his film work, David Arnold has collaborated with Bjork, Massive Attack and Pulp, wrote songs for Made in Dagenham: The Musical, and his CV also includes TV shows such as Sherlock, Good Omens, and Little Britain.

The full tour runs: London Lafayette (November 19); Newcastle The Cluny (20); Glasgow Òran Mór (22);  Birmingham Hare & Hounds (23); Manchester Band on the Wall (24) and Cambridge Junction 2 (26). Tickets on sale now at aeg-presents.co.uk

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