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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Sam Lee – mastering the Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, and activist
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Sam Lee Two years ago I was honoured and delighted to be asked to master the extra tracks to...
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Druv Kent – Mastering international hits for the Indian born Singer Songwriter
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Druv Kent Wanna Love Again is the fabulous new single from Asian megastar Druv which I recently mastered. The...
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Mastering tracks for the terrific Tora Luna, Joshua Kime project
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Tora Luna, Joshua Kime Tora Luna, Joshua Kime is the artist name for a project by Alex Broadgate and...
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Aliens – recording, mixing and mastering 30lbs Of Air, with Tim May, Calum MacColl, Martyn Barker, Leroy Lendor, Helen Turner, Grace Cross, Jo Clarkson, Iain Harvie
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New Release - Nothing This fantastic new song was recorded at my Devon studio with just Tim and I...
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Recording Cello for David Knopfler on Shooting For The Moon, Last Train Leaving, Songs Of Loss And Love and more…
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David Knopfler Famously a founder member of Dire Straits with his brother Mark Knopfler, I first encountered David many...
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Mastering the beautiful Rahbæk Due Sørensen album for the brilliant Mikael Andreasen
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Mikael Andreasen Enjoying a few days having a ‘citybreak’ in Hampstead, London in April 2023, I chanced upon a...
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Collaborating with shy singer-songwriter Mark Davenport on his beautiful songs
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New Release! Mark has recently released a beautiful new song, recorded, mixed and mastered by me, and featuring a...
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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...