We are a group of friends who spend our spare time doing creative stuff.
Don’t expect the usual boring portfolio of pretentious art-films, tedious small business clients, bland web design and general media wank. We only do fun stuff. And we’re not in it for money…although some would be nice.
Our portfolio is for anything and everything that some (or all) of us get up to after office hours. We’ve won a few awards and competitions, we occasionally get nice things said about us in the post office queue, but we mainly do it for the fun of it.
If you’d like to enlist our cooking skills, and you have an interesting proposition, we’d love to hear from you. Or if you’d rather just linger in our larder, sticking your finger in the cake mix every now and then to taste whatever we cook up, then thank you – we hope you enjoy our hard work.
We are The Bakery. We hope never to grow up and get proper jobs.
Meet the idiots
Alaric King
is a Westcountry German cross breed that likes playing with cameras and catalyzing ideas he calls “interesting shit”. He loves tractors and pretends to read Farmers Weekly earnestly. He’s crap at time keeping and has the reading speed of a six year old. He enjoys eating cake.
Dan Fryer
is a cap-wearing ginger, born east of the Medway. He generally prefers to be behind the camera, but can be enticed to perform with cheesecake. Along with Richard, he once inadvertently became the face of Wicked Pig pork snacks. He is also known to occasionally write, but don’t tell anyone.
Richard Dadd
is a raven-haired misanthrope from Birmingham. He writes, acts, and directs. Along with Dan, he accidentally became the face of Wicked Pig pork snacks throughout 2010. He knows lots about Doctor Who and British comedy. He likes Real Ale and he is rubbish at optimism.
Max Heide
Max’s rise to fame happened in the early 40′s when he led a group of knife-wiedling hard men into the African congo, in an insurgence based attack on the German front line. With a past well decorated, Max remains a humble and modest man, currently campaigning for Comic Sans to be introduced into British legal documents.
Adam Droy
spends most of his time using a pre-dated version of Microsoft GIF animator, in an arrogant attempt to improve his animation skills. After suggestions that he should perhaps look into adopting modern 3D methods, Adam disappeared for 3 months, only tempted back to society with the promise of a licensed copy of Paint Shop Pro-3.
Thomas German
is a volatile maelstrom in the serene mill pond of Middle England. He hurtles through Bakery projects like a whirlwind, but a whirlwind with a violin and a selection of comedy outfits. His career peaked early when he got a job as a barman on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway. In many ways his life is now complete.
Gate Lambert
Was banished from his native Belgium at the tender age of 3 when he was overheard saying he didn’t like chocolate. Since then he and his family have roamed from country to country in an attempt to hide their shame. Gate made his Bakery debut when orange-tighted and Dorito-clad, he helped Dan Fryer win a prize for “ad of the week”.
Jan Grimshaw
is a Northern bombshell in a bewildering Southern land of saveloys and curious vowels. She moved to Canterbury in 2005 where she received an education in film-making from The Bakery, and an education in incompetence from her Film Studies lecturers. Whether balancing a lamp on her head to light a film, or cobbling together props from the contents of her bedroom, Jan is The Bakery’s right-hand woman when it comes to solving absurd problems in record timing.
