Mike Hedges
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Mike Hedges is an acclaimed British audio producer/engineer whose career spans more than 20 years.
[edit] Career
Mike Hedges started his career as a tape-op at Morgan Studios in London in the late 1970s. Having graduated to engineer, Hedges went freelance in 1981 and quickly moved on to make his mark as an engineer/producer.
Hedges' first major collaboration was with The Cure and resulted in their debut single 'Killing an Arab'. Hedges opened his own facility, the Playground, in nearby Camden Town where he continued to work with The Cure as well as the Associates and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
His subsequent credits have included U2, Dido, the Manic Street Preachers, Travis, Texas, The Beautiful South.[1] and Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go -- which was voted best album of 1996 by Q, Vox, Select and Music Week, and which won the BRIT Award for Album Of The Year.[2]
His more recent work includes Dido's album life for rent, which sold several million copies in under a year. he worked as part of the musical team for the blockbuster film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. in 2007, he produced the single My Generation for the hit band The Zimmers, which was released on 28 of may 2007 and quickly entered #26 in the UK charts. the band have become wordly famous, and appeared on the Jay Leno Show in America.
Also, between the year 1996 and 2000, Hedges worked continuously on music for the grammy awards for four years in a row, a feat that has yet to be accomplished by another producer.
He mastered Dizzee Rascal's 2007 album "Maths+English".
As of 2007, Hedges has decided to tone down his career and accept fewer jobs, so that he may spend more time with his family. He is currently in a relationship with British impressionist artist Anna Nightingale, and he spends most of his spare time with his three sons from his previous relationship.
[edit] Albums produced or co/produced by Mike Hedges
- Seventeen Seconds, The Cure (1980, Fiction)
- Faith, The Cure (1981, Fiction)
- Fourth Drawer Down, The Associates (1981, Situation 2)
- Sulk, The Associates (1982, Associates)
- A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, Siouxsie and The Banshees (1982, Polydor)
- Feast, The Creatures (1983, Polydor)
- What Is Beat?, The English Beat (1983, Go Feet)
- The Sin of Pride The Undertones (1983, Ardeck-EMI)
- Nocturne, Siouxsie and The Banshees ( Album et Dvd live, 1983, Polydor)
- Vermine In Ermine Marc Allmond and the Willing Sinners (1984, Some Bizzare)
- Hyaena, Siouxsie and The Banshees (1984, Polydor)
- Stories Of Johnny Marc Almond (1985, Virgin)
- Baby The Stars Shine Bright, Everything But The Girl (1986, Blanco y Negro/Sire)
- Drop, The Shamen (1987, Mau Mau)
- Long Live The New Flesh, Flesh For Lulu (1987)
- Through the Looking Glass Siouxsie and the Banshees (1987, Polydor)
- Peepshow, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1988, Polydor)
- Boomerang, The Creatures (1989, Polydor)
- Welcome To The Beautiful South, The Beautiful South (1989, Go Discs)
- Choke, The Beautiful South (1990, Go Discs)
- Split, Lush (1994, 4AD)
- Yes, McAlmont and Butler (1995, Hut Records)
- Everything Must Go, Manic Street Preachers (1996, Sony)
- No More Apologies, A House (1996, Setanta)
- White on Blonde, Texas (1997, Mercury Records)
- This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, The Manic Street Preachers (1998, Virgin)
- The Man Who, Travis (1999, Independiente)
- Yeah, The Wannadies (1999, RCA)
- "Blue Touches Blue", Noa (Achinoam Nini) (March 2000)
- All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 (2000, Island)
- Know Your Enemy, The Manic Street Preachers (2001, Epic Records)
- "My Generation", The Zimmers (2007)
