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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KB Bayley
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
KB Bayley The second album I have mastered for the wonderful KB Bayley is out now! Flatlands can be...
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Teenage Fanclub
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
After the success of Grand Prix, Teenage Fanclub set about the follow up with the same producer David Bianco....
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Amoeba Teen – Mastering their new album
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
Amoeba Teen Mark Britton from the band Amoeba Teen got in touch back in August 2021 to enquire about...
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Mastering Matt Edible And The Obtuse Angels’ latest stormer!
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
New Single – “Idiot”! Idiot by Matt Edible & The Obtuse Angels https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mattedibleandtheobtuseangels/idiot I mastered this stomping great tune...
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Lisa Stansfield
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Coldcut continued their run of launching other artists’ careers with hit singles with Lisa Stansfield’s collaboration, People Hold On...
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Working with Bernard Butler from 1997 to 2024 – Mastering new tracks for a reissue of an album I recorded and mixed 24 years ago, and a new album!
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Bernard Butler – Good Grief Bernard’s wonderful long awaited third solo album Good Grief is released on 31st May...
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John Leckie and George Shilling – the cartoon! How I got animated at Abbey Road with RecordProduction.com…
Credits / CV, Video Interview
John Leckie and I have known each for many years. We have worked together a few times. I engineered...