Greg
is a talented producer with a background in engineering,
drumming and programming who initially built up
a reputation within the Welsh music community
for his diverse production skills and innovative
arrangements with artists such as Super Furry
Animals, Catatonia, Lost Prophets and Bullet For
My Valentine.
Watch
his video
interview here, but you need to have Real
Player installed and have a good broadband connection
as this video file is aprox 100 Meg large!
Continuing
his long standing relationship with the Manic
Street Preachers, Greg produced their album "Lifeblood"
including the number 2 singles "The Love
of Richard Nixon" and "Empty Souls".
He also worked on earlier top ten records for
the band including "There by the Grace of
God" and "You Stole the Sun From My
Heart". He produced songs from the "Know
your Enemy" album and toured with them as
a percussionist on their 2002/3 "Greatest
Hits" tour. He has recently produced tracks
for the Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield solo
albums.
He
produced the "Beautiful Intentions"
album for Melanie C including the top ten UK single
"Next Best Superstar". He produced several
top 40 singles for INME, including "Faster
The Chase" and "So You Know" along
with additional production on the "White
Butterfly" album. He also remixed The Cosmic
Rough Riders hit "The Pain Inside".
Greg
has produced sessions for many and varied artists
over several genres these include: Salvage, Big
Linda, The Hot Puppies, Breed 77, Bullet For My
Valentine, Lost Prophets, Skindread, People In
Planes, Midasuno, Dopamine, 60ft Dolls, Stuart
Cable, The Afternoons, Puscha, Big Leaves, Richard
Parfitt, Sal, Kennedy Soundtrack, Tetra Splendour,
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Zabrinski, Topper, Texas
Radio Band, El Goodo, MC Mabon, Marvin, Amy Wadge,
Derrero, Budapest, The Relatives, Salvage, Bluesky
Research, Kyro, A Silent Film, Little Fish, Mclusky,
Another Story, Buffalo 77, The Martini Henry Rifles,
Tribes of the City, The Lucky, Aynsley Lister,
Watershed/Leave The Capital and Small Victories/Tommy
and the Chauffeur.
He
recorded tracks for the Catatonia "International
Velvet" album and with Super Furry Animals
on the "Outspaced" and "Mwng"
albums including the single "Ysbeidiau Heulog".
He recorded and mixed the soundtrack for the 2001
Marc Evans BAFTA winning film "Beautiful
Mistake" with the Velvet Underground's John
Cale. He has produced music for several plays
by poet Patrick Jones with James Dean Bradfield
along with Patrick's album "Commemoration
and Amnesia". He produced and co-wrote the
song "The Ten Commandments Of Bart"
from the Simpsons' "Yellow" album with
Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
In
recent years Greg has recorded extensively overseas
including work in New Zealand and Australia producing
major label artists such as The Feelers' multi-platinum
album "Playground Battle", Carly Binding's
"So Radiate" album and "The Mad
Love" by 48 May. Also tracks for The Checks,
Pluto, Goodnight Nurse, Goldenhorse, Tourist and
The Rabble.
Greg played on the Tom Jones album "Reload"
and has worked as a musician for the likes of
Roger Daltrey, Daryl Hall, Corey Hart, Nightcrawlers
and Waterfront as well as several years as a songwriter
for EMI Music Publishing and London Music. He
helped set up the Big Noise and Boobytrap record
labels, the latter with funding from Sony UK.
Greg
has spoken about his production history, techniques
and knowledge of the music industry at the Resonate
Seminar in Auckland, by:Larm in Norway, the Baltic
Music Conference in Riga, was on the producer
panel at In The City 2004 and has done seminars
for the Music Producers Guild in the UK. He is
a music advisor to the Arts Council of Wales and
has won several Welsh Music Awards for his production
work and services to the Music Industry.
Special
thanks to Scott
Mathews for the kind use of his music
and to James Towler and Stevie
Winwood for the kind use of their studio
as a location and to George
Shilling for asking the questions.
Many thanks to Greg for giving his time and to
Zen at Resolution Magazine for helping tie
things up.
Feature
produced April 2005
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