With my cello playing credentials, I was considered for producing MLS who’d previously worked with Giles Martin. With multitudinous string players, choral parts, ambitious arrangements and a sore-throated Jake Shillingford (with his oddly long surname!) we rocked up at RAK Studios early in 1996 to record 6 or 7 songs, somehow finishing them all in the space of 5 or 6 days, including tracks which would end up on The Golden Mile. During the recordings (including the tracking of Strumpet)the band had a meeting with a producer I considered in a league way above me – Gary Langan. So when Sally Oldfield booked me for a month to do her album I keenly inked it in my diary. However, MLS and Parlophone came back to me, remarkably deciding they’d like me to finish the album! Unfortunately I was now committed to the Oldfield sessions so all I had time to do was a few days in Miloco whacking down the terrific 12 Reasons Why I Love Her (not forgetting the extended version with a few more reasons).
My Life Story
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Recording and Mixing sessions with Texas at RAK and Olympic Studios
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Although I was busy carving a path as a producer in 1990, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to...
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Rosetta Fire show they care in a new Warwickshire lockdown campaign with a new song, mastered by me…
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
Rosetta Fire I've worked with Warwickshire band Rosetta Fire a few times over the years. I've produced recordings for...
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James Passey – Limited Edition CD E.P. out now featuring my piano, cello and production
Cello / Strings, Credits / CV, Latest Work, Recording
James Passey I have been producing tracks for James Passey for a few years. We recorded this fantastic song...
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Malcolm McLaren
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
The erstwhile Sex Pistols manager and svengali had a continuing career in the 1990s making music for TV commercials...
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Mike Finnigan – the Demolition Man from Manchester with his Gorgeous Songs
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Mike Finnigan The lovely Mike Finnigan, a Bank Cottage regular, was recently in touch again to revive a song...
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Mixing and Mastering for Karys Kennedy – talented Grimsby based singer/songwriter
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Karys Kennedy Back in those pre-Britpop early 90s times, I produced and engineered tracks with a forward-looking and quirky...
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Carmelo Alfano – Additional Production, Mixing and Mastering – after a 20 year break!
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering, Mixing
Carmelo Alfano I first met and worked with Carmelo over 20 years ago when I had a bedroom studio...
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The Ancient Order Of Frothblowers
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In 2016 my name appeared on a beermat!