Felix Hagan
Felix Hagan | |
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 Felix Hagan on stage at Lancaster Town Hall, January 2018 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Felix Lloyd Hagan |
| Born | March 14, 1987 London, England |
| Instruments | Drums, guitar, piano, bass, harmonica, vocals |
| Website | www |
Felix Lloyd Hagan (born 14 March 1987) is a composer, songwriter and performer based in Manchester, UK. He is one quarter of musical theatre group Spitlip, writers of Operation Mincemeat (musical), for which he has won multiple awards including best new musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards[1].
Hagan has composed pieces for a number of TV and streaming shows including Backchat with Jack Whitehall, Spitting Image and Bad Education[2].
Releasing two albums and several EPs, Hagan is also a singer-songwriter in his own right. Hagan fronted glam rock band Felix Hagan & The Family, with whom he released two EPs and a full-length album.
Early Life
Hagan was born in London to Anita Hagan, a Swedish clinical psychologist and former coloratura soprano opera singer, and David Hagan, a banker, world champion powerboat racer and drummer. Around his seventh birthday the family moved near Lymington in the New Forest.
Hagan began playing music at age six, starting on trumpet and later picking up the drums and guitar. He began playing piano at age 12 and wrote his first song aged 13. As a child he would regularly perform with professional bands on drums from the age of 10[3]
Hagan attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, then the University of Liverpool, graduating with a first-class degree in Pop Music. He credits a school teacher, Alex Arkwright, with awakening his passion for writing music.
Personal Life
Hagan has been diagnosed with ADHD and ASD, which he has often described as being “the impossible, maddening secret ingredient of making up songs”.
Hagan has been sober since 2008, following “a truly monstrous dance with booze” in his teenage years. He has two children.
Musical Career
As well as writing music for TV, radio and online, Hagan has also released several albums and EPs under his own name, with his band Felix Hagan and The Family, and featured on the Original Cast Recording of the Operation Mincemeat Soundtrack[4].
Hagan has toured the world with his band and Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls[2]. Operation Mincemeat opened at the Fortune Theatrein London's West End on 9 May 2023 and at the Golden Theatre in New York on 15 February 2025[5]. His other musical theatre work includes HouseFire and The Windsors: Endgame[6].
Solo releases
- Dawn Breaks, The Monster Wakes... (released 2 November 2011)
- Your Fanatic / Songs In The Dark (released 13 June 2018)
- This Is Hagan Music (released 16 April 2021)
- Hello Cloud (released 27 May 2022)
Felix Hagan & The Family
- String Up The Entertainer (released 27 September 2013)
- Kiss The Misfits (released 20 November 2015)
- Attention Seeker (released 24 November 2017)
Singles
- Dirty Little Urchin Child (released 18 June 2012)
- Desperation Reeks (released 22 November 2012)
- My Little Lusitania (released 21 January 2013)
- Sing Your Last Lullaby (released 13 August 2013)
- Your Fanatic (released 19 August 2014)
- Go Back Home (released 9 November 2014)
- Songs In The Dark (released 19 May 2015)
- Kiss The Misfits (released 23 October 2015)
- Some Kind Of Hero (released 26 November 2015)
- Delirium Tremendous (released 30 June 2017)
- Attention Seeker (released 8 November 2017)
- Hey, I Want You (released 18 September 2018)
- Gene Kelly (released 9 November 2018)
Other
- Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical (Original Cast Recording) (released 12 May 2023)
- Housefire: The Musical (Studio Cast Recording) (with Poppy Burton-Morgan, released 20 October 2020)
- The Minotaur a Musical (Studio Cast Recording) (with Poppy Burton-Morgan, released 20 October 2022)
References
- ↑ "Winners announced for 2024 Olivier Awards including Sunset Boulevard, Sarah Snook and Operation Mincemeat". 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Who is Felix Hagan? Musicals, Operation Mincemeat and more". 2024-09-30. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ↑ Fiona (2017-09-17). "Henry's Man of the Month: Musician Felix Hagan". Henry Arlington England. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ↑ "How McFly rejection led to one of the biggest West End hits of all time". Metro. 2024-11-15. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ↑ "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical". Operation Mincemeat. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ↑ "Felix Hagan - Polka". polkatheatre.com/. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
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