Mike Batt current work

A Conservative Party supporter, Batt was asked to write the 2001 UK General Election song "Heartland", thereby replacing Andrew Lloyd Webber as the Conservative's official composer.

After conceiving and co-creating the all-girl string quartet bond and producing their first single, he then created the eight piece classical crossover band, The Planets. Their album Classical Graffiti was released in February 2002 and went straight to number one on the UK classical music chart on the day of release and remained there for three months. Batt was sued for copyright infringement over the track "A One Minute Silence", which consisted of one minute of silence and was credited to 'Batt/Cage'.
The publishers of John Cage's music alleged that the credit invoked Cage's silent piece 4′33″, and that the trust was entitled to receive royalties. An out of court settlement was reached, with Batt paying a six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust.

Batt formed his own record label Dramatico in 2002, which has a small group of artists including Carla Bruni. Dramatico has since 2005, been one of the top three UK based indie labels, based on official sales figures. Batt is presently dedicating most of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua, whom he discovered in 2002 while scouting for a jazz musical project he was working on. Melua's album Call Off The Search containing six of Batt's songs including "The Closest Thing to Crazy" was released on Dramatico in November 2003. After six weeks at number one in the UK Albums Chart, it sold six times platinum over 1.8 million copies - in the UK and three million copies in total, making Melua the biggest selling UK female artist of 2004. Her second album, Piece by Piece including Batt's song "Nine Million Bicycles" was released in September 2005, and to date has sold 3.5 million copies in Europe, going to number 1 in the UK, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and going top five in eight other countries.

In 2008, Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio concert tour in Germany, to promote his new CD, A Songwriter's Tale - a compilation album of his hits, some sung by himself and most of them newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Spinetti, Ray Cooper, Chris Spedding, Mitch Dalton and Tim Harries.

His band toured with Spinetti (drums), Spedding (guitar), Harries (bass), Frank Gallagher (keyboards and violins), Luis Jardim (percussion) and Florence Rawlings (vocals and background vocals). After she completed her education, Batt signed Rawlings to Dramatico. He produced her album, A Fool In Love, and wrote six of the twelve songs on it "The Only Woman In The World", "Jump On The Wagon", "Wolf Man", "Hard To Get", "Can't Hold Your Hand", and "Love Can Be A Battlefield".



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