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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New Radicals
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Sadly I can’t lay claim to have had any involvement in You Get What You Give, one of my...
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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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Malcolm McLaren
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The erstwhile Sex Pistols manager and svengali had a continuing career in the 1990s making music for TV commercials...
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McAlmont & Butler
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As Bernard’s regular engineer for both of his solo albums, I’d sometimes continue to work with him in his...
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Cathal Coughlan
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Having mastered several Luke Haines albums, I also got to master the fabulous The North Sea Scrolls album in...
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Mixing and Mastering with the amazing Frank Turner
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I met Sleeping Souls drummer and latterly Sad Song Co all-rounder Nigel Powell many years ago. This was through...
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Steve Winwood
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After joining the informal Tuesday Night Conversation Club (which mainly involved imbibing copious quantities of ale) with Steve and...
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Mike Finnigan – the Demolition Man from Manchester with his Gorgeous Songs
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The lovely Mike Finnigan, a Bank Cottage regular, was recently in touch again to revive a song which...