For Season 3 of DCI Banks I was asked to compose a song for a fictional band called The Crystal Kiss.

The story was about the murder of a band member back in the 1980s: the heyday of this band. I composed Marginal Love along with Dan Jeffries in the style of a 1980s British guitar band, and singer songwriter Sherri Casey wrote the lyrics and performed the track.

For the shoot I was only asked to write one verse of the song as they only needed a small clip for DCI Banks to be looking at on his computer. So that is the reason the verse is repeated in this clip.

Creating and producing this song for the series added a huge amount of time to my scoring workload but it was an incredibly enjoyable experience and the producers were really pleased with the finished song.

We joked about bringing The Crystal Kiss on a European tour one day and performing this live!

The track «Marginal Love» by The Crystal Maze appears in season 3 of DCI Banks (Episodes 3