Dave Kerr

Dave Kerr; image from his YouTube channel

Dave Kerr, (born May 1975) also known as Monster-Handler Dave, was a Monster-Handler that worked as the lead composer, and a voice actor at Big Blue Bubble from February 2009 to November 2018. He was also the designer and producer of My Singing Monsters, and is credited for coming up with the game's concept. He also worked on My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire, Thumpies, Fling a Thing, and My Muppets Show.

After retiring, Dave started a YouTube channel with his wife, former Monster-Handler Maggie Park, where he talks about his process in composing songs and creating voices. He also interacts with My Singing Monsters fans and shares behind the scenes for the game.

Return to Big Blue Bubble

Sometime around August 2023, he and Maggie returned to Big Blue Bubble to record some more Monster voices for them. This included some voices for Mimic, the young Core Seasonals in Dawn of Fire, some voices for Ethereal Workshop, and likely voices for unreleased songs. Dave and Maggie have revealed that they don't know what will be done with the remaining voices they've recorded, and they didn't know that some recordings were going to be used for Ethereal Workshop.

During the same year, Big Blue Bubble released the Fire Expansion update, which added previously Amber Island exclusive Monsters to Fire Haven and the Magical Islands. Some of these Monsters were voiced by Dave (Yelmut on Light Island and Flum Ox on Bone Island), but the recordings were actually made several years before. During development, the Magical Islands were going to be Fire Islands, and so recordings of existing Fire Monsters were made. This is why some Fire Monsters share a melody with existing Magical Monsters on each island.

Composing

Dave Kerr was the lead composer for Islands released between 2012 and 2019. He has said that the Natural Islands, Fire Haven, and Gold Island all had a tempo of 140 bpm so dubstep could be added later, in the form of Wubbox.

A list of islands Dave composed are below.

• Plant Island
• Cold Island
• Air Island
• Water Island
• Earth Island
• Gold Island
• Ethereal Island
• Shugabush Island (along with Kristian Bush)
• Tribal Island
• Continent
• Space Island
• Cloud Island
• Cave Island
• Starhenge
• Party Island
• Wublin Island
• Celestial Island
• Fire Haven
• Fire Oasis
• Fire Frontier (later became Psychic Island)
• Fire Park (later became Faerie Island)
• Fire Bastion (later became Bone Island)
• Fire Fantasia (later became Light Island)
• Amber Island (composed the section for Whaddle)

Other songs he composed for My Singing Monsters are listed below:

• The Monster World (heard in the Loading Screen and The Colossingum's Jukebox)

Voice Acting

A list of Monsters that Dave voiced are listed below. If no islands are specified, then he voiced the Monster for every island it appears on.

• Attmoz
• Blabbit (Water, Gold, Continent)
• Boskus (Oasis, Light, Faeire, Continent, Cloud)
• Brump
• Congle (Tribal Island only)
• Cybop
• Dermit
• The Dipsters
• Flum Ox (Bone Island)
• Furcorn
• Glaishur
• Jellbilly
• Kazilleon
• Mammott (alongside Matthew Stewart on some islands)
• Maulch
• Maw (on some islands; unconfirmed)
• Mimic
• Nebulob
• Phangler (Oasis, Psychic, Bone, Continent, Cloud)
• Plixie
• Punkleton (Plant, Gold, Continent)
• Rare Wubbox (Plant, Air, Earth; unconfirmed)
• Schmoochle (Air, Gold, Continent)
• Screemu
• Spunge (Cold, Water, Tribal, Gold)
• Tawkerr
• Toe Jammer
• Whaill (backing vocals, leading vocals by Maggie Park)
• Whajje
• Wynq (Oasis, Continent, Cave)
• Yawstrich (Air Island)
• Yelmut (Light Island)
• Yool (Cold, Gold, Continent)

Additionally, he voiced BoOoo in both the original Thumpies game and its remake.

Instrumental Performance

Although most instrumental Monsters use VSTs, some are recorded using live instruments. The following were performed by Dave.

• Castle Bass (Natural Islands)
• Congle (Cold, Air; unconfirmed)
• Riff
• Yool
• Humbug
• Arackulele
• Boodoo (unconfirmed)
• Zuuker

Gallery

MPG Interview with Dave and Maggie

My Singing Monsters - Inside the Studio

Notes

• Before working at Big Blue Bubble, Dave Kerr was a sound designer and composer at DICE. With DICE, he worked on several games, including the first three games in the Battlefield series: Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, and Battlefield 2.
• Dave confirmed that the first Behind the Scenes video was just a satire video, like with the monsters not actually being motion captured and Jamie lip syncing to Furcorn's part.
• During the development of My Muppets Show, Dave got to meet the voice actors of the Muppets in person to record them.
• Dave and Maggie co-wrote a book called Tales of Thrum: The Terrible Dischord, which released in 2023.
• Dave composed most of his songs in his basement.
• Dave likes to drink carbonated watermelon flavored Kool-Aid.
• Up until the addition of Monculus, he and Maggie were the only ones to voice act on Wublin Island.
• Dave's favorite Monster is Furcorn, coincidentally also being voiced by himself.
• He technically voices 2 of the mascots, as, besides Furcorn, he also voices Mammott on some islands along with Matt.
• Dave is the son of James B. Kerr, one of the inventors of the UV index.
• Dave's favorite island is Plant Island, as it was the first island song he composed and is the most "classic" in his opinion.

External Links

• Dave's YouTube channel