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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Mike Finnigan – the Demolition Man from Manchester with his Gorgeous Songs
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering, Mixing, Recording
Mike Finnigan The lovely Mike Finnigan, a Bank Cottage regular, was recently in touch again to revive a song...
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Recording with The Wannadies: having fun in the studio with the lovely Swedish pop geniuses
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I produced, engineered and mixed a bunch of recordings with these lovable Swedes in the 1990s. On about four...
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Primal Scream
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I got drafted in to add some overdubs and mix a few songs for Vanishing Point, including the hit...
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Remixing Mike Oldfield – and recording and mixing Sally Oldfield
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In Spring 1996 I had been working with britpop band My Life Story producing B-Sides for them at...
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Working with Bernard Butler from 1997 to 2021 – Mastering new tracks for a reissue of an album I recorded and mixed 24 years ago
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Bernard Butler While working on Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Songs From Northern Britain’ album, newly signed labelmate Bernard came to hang...
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Appleton
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I recorded vocals for All Grown Up with Nicole and Natalie Appleton at writer/producer Mike Rowe’s small room at...
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Paul Van Dyk
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After I had produced a number of tracks with Vega 4 they set about a collaboration with dance music...
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Mastering Calum MacColl’s beautiful rendition of Colin Vearncombe aka Black’s “In A Heartbeat”
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Colin Vearncombe aka Black The late Colin Vearncombe was an incredible musician and songwriter. He had a huge hit...