Mike Hedges

Mike Hedges is a British audio producer/engineer.

Career

Mike Hedges started as a tape-op at Morgan Studios in London in the late 1970s. Having graduated to engineer, he went freelance in 1981 and became 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 with the Associates and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

His subsequent credits have included U2, Dido, The Undertones, the Manic Street Preachers, Travis, Texas, The Beautiful South, and The Priests.[1] He produced the Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go, which was voted best album of 1996 by Q, Vox, Select and Music Week, and won the BRIT Award for Album Of The Year.[2]

Hedges' more recent work includes Dido's 2003 album Life for Rent, which sold several million copies in under a year, the 2007 single "My Generation" for the band The Zimmers and Dizzee Rascal's 2007 album Maths + English.

In 2009 he produced Claire Tchaikowski's debut album Those Thousand Seas, and the classical album The Priests.

Mike Hedges has also worked as part of the musical team for the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Between 1996 and 2000, Hedges' work was continuously nominated for the Grammy awards for four successive years, which no other british producer has done.

Albums produced or co/produced by Mike Hedges

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