Work With Other Artists

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Arbre

I was a member of this Newcastle based band for several years at the end of the seventies, playing guitar and keyboards and writing some of the songs. The band featured the three Caffrey brothers on Vocals. We recorded two albums and a number of singles for DJM, did a handful of radio and TV shows and toured in the UK.

Kit Hain

Kit did a number of gigs and a few recordings with me on keyboards in the mid eighties before she moved to the states. I also worked with her brother Tim during this period.

Kiki Dee

In the late eighties I was playing in a band with Danny Kustow and Bob Wiczling and we became Kiki's backing band for a couple of TV shows.

Bliss

This was a really productive period for me. I was engineering in a few London studios and still playing fairly regularly. Whilst rehearsing at The Premises, I was introduced to Bliss who had moved to London from Leamington and I joined as keyboard player. The first album for EMI, Love Prayer, sold well in Europe and in South America and we toured and did TV shows endlessly during 1989 mostly in Italy and Germany. After returning from Brazil in 1990 Bliss became a duo and Paul Sirett, Chris Baker and myself, finding ourselves with slightly less to do, started working on some songs that I had written which eventually became the album Scarab Moon. I also started producing other artists during this time, and, having already engineered and mixed a number of releases including tracks with Joe Strummer for the film Sid and Nancy, I found myself working as an engineer and or producer full time.

Martin Southwood

Martin and I met in a studio in Chiswick where I helped him record some songs that subsequently gained him a deal with German based Abaco Records. He asked me to produce his first album which we recorded in North London and mixed in Germany.

Ruby Blue

Joe's Garage Studios in Clapham became my second home in the mid nineties and I engineered and produced countless projects there including several tracks for Ruby Blue, some of which I also contributed keyboards to.

Nicola Hitchcock

Richard Digby-Smith came down to Joe's with Nicola and I got involved with engineering her first album for F-Beat. My involvement gradually increased through the recording and I played some piano and mixed the album. I subsequently co-produced Nicola's second single and played a few gigs in London with her. Nicola is now one half of the band Mandalay.

Stereolab

I engineered quite a bit of the album Peng and thoroughly enjoyed working with Tim and Laeticia, I even borrowed her name for a character in one of my songs.

Christy Moore

My partner in production Walter Samuel introduced me to Christy and I played Hammond and Piano on his 1991 album Smoke and Strong Whisky which we recorded in Dublin. Walter and I then went on to co-produce Christy's next album King Puck. I also perfomed with him and a host of others on a Television special filmed in Dublin a couple of years later.

Eleanor Shanley

Following the success of Christy's album, Walter and I co-produced Eleanor's first album during 1994. As with Christy's album we worked at Sulan studios in county Cork and mixed at the Wool Hall in Somerset.

Spikedrivers

Ben Tyzack's childhood in the southern United States seeps into his band's delta blues music. I produced their first two albums Delta Boogie and Whiskey River Blues in the late nineties and have played piano on several gigs with Spikedrivers over the past five years. I was originally introduced to Ben by Chris Baker who was playing drums in the band at the time.

Brian Kennedy

I played Hammond and other keyboards on an Irish tour with Brian a few years ago which included a huge Television show from The Point in Dublin.

Others...

Wilko Johnson, a fabulous album with Guo Yue from China, The Pasadenas, The Fruits, Hambi and the Dance, Michelle Gayle, Steve Booker, David Gray, The Triangl soundtrack (Oscar nominated animation), MN8, Eternal, Wally Page, the wonderful Joyland album from Liberty Horses, Peggy Seeger, Daedalo... and many others.

Currently...

I have been playing gigs with Singer Songwriter Wendy Lloyd, mostly in London, but we will do more as the year progresses. Her new album Duvet Tuesday has recently been released.
Rolling Steady with the Skatalites has been released. I worked on some of the tracks on that album.
I recently produced the EP No Man's Land by The Tipsy Gypsies. This is now available from their myspace site.

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