The Essential List: Seb Juviler
Seb Juviler is one of the co-founders of Forever Audio (formerly SNK Studios and Red Apple Creative).
Founded in 2005, Forever Audio offers a whole range of writing and production services including sound for TV ads, films and dramas, sonic branding, creative audio campaigns across broadcast and digital audio, podcasts, audiobooks, audio adaptations and digital campaigns with an audio focus.
Lifestyle
o Place of birth: Hammersmith
o Hometown: Ealing
o Staycation: Scotland - my wife is from beautiful Fife, near St Andrews. Sadly I’m not a golfer though so I will forever remain an outsider!
o Vacation: France. I’m half French, I barely understand a word, but cheese and wine are my happy place!
o Pet: Our cat Jimmy. Fluffy and angry - a deadly combo.
o Place of work: Forever Audio in Tottenham Court Road, with the odd trip to see our New York team.
o Place of workout: On my bike up Ivinghoe Beacon. Love it.
o Side project: Much to the amusement of my colleagues, I built a small N Scale train set during lockdown. After that Rod Stewart came out and admitted he was into trains too… I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse though. Ha!
Culture
o Artist: Harriet Whyatt – discovered at Battersea Affordable Art Fair one year. She paints incredible oil portraits of Roma.
o Musician: Currently loving Tallest Man On Earth, but I listen to anything and everything. I recently rediscovered the song ‘Frank Sinatra’ by CAKE. It always puts a smile on my face.
o Commercials / music video director: Anything by Chris Cunningham.
o Film director: Martin Scorsese – are they films or music videos? I saw an interview with him a while back and he said he’ll often have the music in his head before he’s shot the scene. Genius.
o Photographer: Sebastião Salgado – silvery amazingness (I won't be writing for The New Yorker anytime soon!)
o Film: Withnail & I. Yes Sam, it is funny.
o Series: Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters.
o Commercial: Chris Cunningham’s Mental Wealth for PlayStation.
o Board game: Trivial Pursuit
o Book: Anything by John Grisham. When I was a kid I wanted to be a lawyer, I was a bit odd!
o Podcast: Parenting Hell – I have three of my own, so sometimes it’s a little too close to home!
Food and Drink
o Breakfast: Mushrooms at any time of the day in a big pile, with lots of garlic. And repeat… a bit like the garlic!
o Restaurant: Hawksmoor for steak (with mushrooms).
o Cheap bite: My wife and I eat a lot of salad, which we love. I think she might be a rabbit.
o Working lunch: Bang Bang Vietnamese Canteen near the studios is incredible.
o Favourite dish: Pad Thai with a whole fried egg on top. Heaven.
o Signature dish: I make a very good lasagne – with cottage cheese instead of bechamel, it stops it becoming a sloppy mess.
o Guilty pleasure: Soreen with peanut butter, although you should probably be on a good hike at the time!
o Booze: Rioja (with mushrooms).
o Not booze: A while ago we bought a SodaStream for the kitchen, which takes me back… anything from that really. It’s probably the best invention of the last 50 years, never mind the iPhone!
Kit
o Phone: iPhone
o Computer: MacBook
o TV: It’s a fairly small LG… I’m not allowed a big one as my wife thinks they’re ugly. Damn it!
o Headphones: Jabra Elite, they’re amazing.
o Soundsystem: Studio 7 at work, it’s got 19 speakers in it ;)
o Pen / pencil: Avoid at all costs… I’m so used to using a computer I get palpitations when I handwrite anything anymore! What have we become?!
