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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Lisa Stansfield
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Coldcut continued their run of launching other artists’ careers with hit singles with Lisa Stansfield’s collaboration, People Hold On...
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Andy Yorke
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Andy is brother of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. His solo album Simple was recorded and mixed by me at Bank...
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Stone The Crow – Mastering a brilliant heavy rock band from Worcestershire for multi-talented Mark Newton
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering, Mixing
Mark Newton I have known the band's founder Mark for many years from the time when he ran a...
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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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Ocean Colour Scene
Cello / Strings, Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Steve Cradock and Simon Fowler came to my Bank Cottage Studio around 2009 to record and polish up demos...
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The Soup Dragons – making the Lovegod album and recording I’m Free with a gospel choir
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
The Year Is 1990… …and I had had some success, by the age of 21 moving up from assistant...
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Blur
Credits / CV, Mixing
I remember getting the last minute call for this session at about midday on a rainy Sunday when I...
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Mastering – SHÉPA — «SUPERNOVA» | Нацвідбір 2024 | Eurovision 2024 Ukraine
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering, Mixing
Shépa Arthur Ramazanoff put me in touch with Lev Shurov who produced and mixed this Eurovision banger. Our mutual...