Chris Brown is currently working with Russian band 'Blast', recording 3 tracks at a Moscow studio.
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John Leckie speaks to music mag 'Word' on 'Blue' by The Verve amongst other things - get down the shops and buy it.... Or just read it here!
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John Leckie and Safta Jaffery recently visied India on behalf of a British Council initiated project entitled 'Soundlab'. The purpose of the visit was to identify 4 new emerging Indian artists, from 25 auditioning hopefuls, in the key metros of Mumbai, Dehli and Bangalore. John plans to produce 2 tracks with each artist later this year.
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John Leckie makes an appearance in the April edition of Q magazine, as part of their 21 page special feature on 'Radiohead'. Read John's contribution here.
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Laurie Latham has been recording with Scottish Singer / Songwriter 'Eddi Reader' as part of a British film project. Go to www.eddireader.com
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John Leckie is back in the studio producing the debut album for Glenrothes based band 'Sergeant' - already dubbed "officially the most exciting band in Scotland" by NME. Also behind the controls is SJP's Chris Brown, donning his engineering cap for the session. Got to: www.myspace.com/sergeantmusic
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Chris Brown was recently reunited with rising Swedish artist 'Kristoffer Ragnstam' in Gothenburg, mixing his latest album. (Title to be announced) Got to www.myspace.com/ragnstam . George Shilling was also out of the UK this January, working with Dutch band 'Backwater' in Holland. Go to: www.myspace.com/backwaterholland
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From SJP and all the prods..
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Congratulations to Lisa Knapp whose album Wild and Undaunted (mixed by SJP's Chris Brown) was named Mojo magazine's Folk Album of 2007. Listen at Lisa Knapp on MySpace.
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John Leckie will join a prestigious panel of judges to decide the winner of the 'Xfm New Music Award' - recognising the the best debut album of 2007. 10 bands, chosen by the public, have made the shortlist and the winner will be announced at a ceremony at London's KOKO in Camden on January 16th 2008. And the nominees are (!):
Click here to read more....
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Jools Hollands 'Best Of Friends' album, produced by Laurie Latham, went in at number 9 upon it's release last week.. The album features a who's who of guest vocalists and includes a bonus DVD!
View a short video on the album and look out for Laurie Latham at the helm.
Disc: 1
1. Tuxedo Junction - Holland, Jools
2. Where Have All The Good Guys Gone - Holland, Jools & Lulu (NEW)
3. Out Of This World - Holland, Jools & Chrissie Hynde
4. Snowflake Boogie - Holland, Jools & Edwin Starr
5. In The Dark - Holland, Jools & Norah Jones
6. Horse To The Water - Holland, Jools & George Harrison
7. To Love A Child - Holland, Jools & Ruby Turner (NEW)
8. Enjoy Yourself - Holland, Jools & Prince Buster
9. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Holland, Jools & Stereophonics
10. Seventh Son - Holland, Jools & Sting
11. Just To Be Home With You - Holland, Jools & Shane McGowan
12. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth - Holland, Jools & KT Tunstall
13. Return Of The Blues Cowboy - Holland, Jools & Joe Strummer
14. I Put A Spell On You - Holland, Jools & Mica Paris/David Gilmour
15. Rock Me - Holland, Jools & Blind Boys Of Alabama
16. Georgia On My Mind - Holland, Jools & India.Arie
17. Think - Holland, Jools & Tom Jones
18. Valentine Moon - Holland, Jools & Sam Brown
19. Oranges And Lemons Again - Holland, Jools & Suggs
20. Mabel - Holland, Jools & Solomon Burke/Eric Clapton
21. If You Wear That Velvet Dress - Holland, Jools & Bono
Disc: 2
1. Best Of Friends - The Story: Documentary
2. Gilson Lavis (Jools' drummer) interview
3. I'm In The Mood For Love with Jamiroquai (video)
4. Oranges And Lemons Again with Suggs (video)
5. It'll Be Me with Tom Jones (video)
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We hope you caught the recent Xfm "Origin Of Symmetry' radio documentary program, featuring our very own John Leckie and Safta Jaffery, but in case you missed it - download the podcast via iTunes here. The episode was part of a series of classic album documentaries by Xfm, as part of their 10th Anniversary celebrations...
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SJP's own Safta Jaffery (M.D.) and producer John Leckie have contibuted to an exciting new series of 'Classic Album' documentaries by Xfm, as part of their 10th Anniversary celebrations... The program featuring John and Safta discussing their parts in the making of Muse's 'Origin Of Symmetry' album can be heard on the 7th October 2007. Press release from Xfm:
"As part of their 10th birthday celebrations Xfm have undertaken an extensive series of new interviews with some of the biggest names in music to produce a season of ten groundbreaking documentaries about ten of the most influential and significant albums released in each of Xfm's ten years of broadcasting since its launch in 1997.
"This is the first time Xfm will have programmed and broadcast a collection of music documentaries on this scale. The shows are set to be aired every Sunday afternoon at 5pm, from September 2nd, for ten weeks.
Each hour-long show will take listeners through the making of a classic album through the eyes of bands, producers and key figures in each record's history, giving listeners a new insight into how it was created, putting the albums into a wider social context and perhaps, most importantly, explaining their impact on music history as a whole.
The documentaries are compiled from new exclusive interviews from artists including Muse, Dave Grohl, Kaiser Chiefs, Noel Gallagher, Mike Skinner, Franz Ferdinand, Josh Homme, Travis, The Beastie Boys' Mike D, Norman Cook, The White Stripes and Richard Hawley, plus legendary producers Steven Street, Jim Abbiss and John Leckie and leading music industry figures such as Emily Eavis and Domino Records’ Laurence Bell.
All ten documentaries were recorded, produced, edited, scripted and hosted by Xfm’s Music News Producer Matt Everitt – the man responsible for Xfm’s acclaimed 2006 Primal Scream documentary ‘Screamadelica – Higher Than The Sun’.
Xfm’s Matt Everitt said, “In its 10 year history Xfm has championed and supported some of the world finest bands, and its great to go back and revisit not only ten of the albums that have shaped popular music, but also the incredible musicians who created them.
“What have I learnt? Mike Skinner and Alex Kapranos are smarter than you could imagine, while Ricky Wilson and Norman Cook are funnier, Muse’s Matt Bellamy is utterly unhinged (in a very polite way) yet Fran Healy is very polite (in an utterly unhinged way) and Dave Grohl may be the nicest man in rock music, but Josh Homme is definitely the coolest.”
Ricky Wilson from Kaiser Chiefs added, “Xfm has always been important to us as a band, even before we were this band. Xfm were brave enough to play us, even when we weren't very good. I didn't even hear it for the first seven years until I got a digital radio three years ago, it was just something that Nick always said was important. It's nice now that I'm fully digital, 'cos I can start to support Xfm just as they have been supporting us for a very long time. It's also nice to be seen as being influential, even though XFM have probably been more influential than us.
Speaking about the documentaries, title artist Norman Cook said, “It’s marvellous to be included in Xfm’s list of the most influential albums of the past decade, and I must confess, I quite enjoyed being probed at such great length about ‘You’ve Come Along Way Baby’, especially by someone with such well defined probing facilities as Matt.”
Xfm’s Head Of Music Mike Walsh added, ‘Xfm is proud to have been so integral to the careers of so many historic artists over the past 10 years.
“Xfm has also always prided itself on innovative, in depth and passionate programming. These docs have been brilliantly made, single handedly, by our very own Matt Everitt and are a great to testament to how Xfm continues to compete with the BBC in the area of music specials.”
Each documentary can be heard for seven days online through Xfm’s Listen Again player. For more information go to www.xfm.co.uk "
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In recent Leckie news, John has been reunited with Senegalese superstar of the world stage 'Baaba Maal' and is currently recording an album set to be released on Palm Pictures in the near future. John was also in LA for a few days recording a track, with artists 'Rodrigo y Gabriela', for the 'Nightmare Before Xmas' Disney Soundtrack.
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In an exciting collalboration of two 'names' around Manchester, John Leckie has recently completed work on tracks for the forthcoming 'Doves' album (Heavenly Records)- title be announced.
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Liverpudlian band 'The Troubadours' have announced plans to release the first of two tracks produced by SJP's John Leckie as a single. "Gimme Love" will be released in August and has already attracted the attention of Q magazine - currently track of day on their website : Click here to read.The songs can be heard at the bands MySpace page - click here.
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John has recently been in the studio with Scott Matthews (Island Records) to record a live acoustic & strings session that will be released as a CD Bonus disc in conjunction with the his debut album re-launch.
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Quad Riot's debut single (produced by The Animal Farm) for Fierce Panda is out May 12th. Quad Riot are from Medway and have been described as "neon pirate rock'n'roll disco" by the 'Diesel U Music' competition which they also won! The single is currently playing on the X-FM playlist.
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John is currently in the studio recording with an exciting Liverpool based band - 'The Troubadours'. Watch this space for more news!
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The critically acclaimed debut album from Greenwich band 'Lucky Soul' is out today in all good record shops! SJP's George Shilling produced the album, entitled 'Great Unwanted', at his own studio at 'Bank Cottage'
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Look out for albums by Kristoffer Ragnstam - "Sweet Bills" and Lisa Knapp - "Wild and Undaunted" - both released last week and both mixed by SJP's Chris Brown.
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Mint Royal included the band 'Lucky Soul' in their list of 'ones to watch' for 2007! Check out the article in this weeks Music Week magazine. Lucky Soul's debut album was produced by SJP's George Shilling and is released on Monday 9th April 2007.
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Tiny Dancers first single - 'I Will Wait For You' (produced by John Leckie) entered the charts at a respectable position of 36 in the Official UK Chart.
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The self titled and John Leckie produced album 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' has hit number 3 in the 'Billboard Heatseeker Chart'. Billboard also had this to say:
"This music is the sound of passion as interpreted by and spoken for in a new rock and roll language."
John is currently in LA continuing his sucessful partnership with the Mexican dynamic duo. (Listen to 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' on MySpace).
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SJP are proud to announce that Chris Brown (Producer, Engineer, Mixer and Composer) has joined our prestigious roster. Chris has twenty years industry experience, including time spent as Senior Engineer at Abbey Road Studios, and has worked with some of the biggest names in the business - such as Radiohead, Muse and The Beatles Anthologies with Sir George Martin. We are currently building Chris's page but in the meantime you can check out his own website for a full discography. www.brownsound.net
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Look out for the latest 'Tiny Dancers' release produced by John Leckie. "Lions And Tigers And Lions" is out now is available in all good record stores ! Learn more about the band here.
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George has completed producing the debut album (titie to be announced) for the wonderful 'Lucky Soul'. Listen to a sample track on our Music Player - click on George's page! View the Lucky Soul website for more info on the band.
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Laurie Latham has completed a new record for Jools Holland in his series of 'With Friends' albums. The album, entitled "Moving Out To The Country", features an array of established artists performing a mix of original and classic Country songs.
1. ‘She'll Have To Go ’ (With Lulu)
2. ‘I Can't Stop Loving You' (With Lulu)
3. ‘Movin' Out To The Country' (With Solomon Burke)
4. ‘Dead Hosts Welcome ’ (With Dr. John)
5. ‘I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' (With Richard Hawley)
6. ‘Georgia On My Mind’ (With India Arie)
7. ‘Misty Blue’ (With David MacAlmont)
8. ‘The Pilgrim ’ (With Bob Geldof)
9. ‘For The Good Times’ (With Bob Geldof)
10. ‘Games People Play’ (Marc Almond)
11. ‘You Win Again ’ (With Mark Knofler)
12. ‘Take These Chains ’ (With Paul Carrack)
13. ‘Dreaming My Dreams With You' (With Eno)
14. ‘Darkness On The Face Of The Earth ’ (With KT Tunstall)
15. ‘Where Do I Go From Here ’ (Jools Holland)
16. ‘I Wish I Was 18 Again’ (With Tom Jones)
17. ‘Friends Not Lovers ’ (With Tom Jones)
18. ‘Rocket To The Moon’ (Jools Holland)
19. ‘Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind ’ (With Ruby Turner)
20. ‘Boogie Woogie Country Girl ’ (Jools Holland)
21. ‘Sweet Dreams’ (With Louise Marshall)
Release date to be confirmed but the album will be in the shops before Xmas - for more on Jools Holland and the previous albums produced by Laurie Latham - check out the official Jools Holland website.
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Ron Saint Germain has re-entered 311’s studio “The Hive” to mix a 2 hour live concert special in 5.1 surround for the HD Net. The concert was also originally recorded by Ron. Check out the latest 311 news at their website.
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Tiny Dancers release their 2nd double A-Side single on limited edition 7 inch vinyl - preview the tracks at www.myspace.com/tinydancers and buy the single at Rough Trade.
The band are currently recording their debut album with SJP's John Leckie, to be released in the new year by on Parlophone.
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SJP's George Shilling is back behind the controls for the Greenwich-based pop wonders "Lucky Soul". Ruffa Lane Records Ltd. plan to release a 4 track EP in November, followed by the debut album in February 2007. Check them out at: www.luckysoul.co.uk
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Tiny Dancers release: 'Bonfire Of the Night' on limited edition 7" vinyl.
This debut single from Tiny Dancers, produced by SJP's John Leckie, is due to be released next week on the bands own label 'Russian Doll Records' - prior to an EP, due to be released on Parlophone later this year. John Leckie is currently in the studio working on the Yorkshire band's debut album. Buy the single at Rough Trade.
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George has just co-produced with Safta tracks for China's foremost rock band
The Honey's, the tracks were recorded in Shanghai and can be previewed on
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Laurie is producing a new Jools Holland and Country Artists album at Helicon Mountain with guests; KT Tunstall, Dr. John, Bob Geldof, Lulu, India Arie,
Solomon Burke, Marc Almond among others
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The Saint has just completed producing an awesome album for BREED 77 for
Albert Productions (home of ACDC)
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John
Leckie is currently in the studio with purveyors of blissful acoustic-led
pop ‘Tiny Dancers’ – newly signed to Parlophone.
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New
Website – Welcome to the SJP / Dodgy
website in all new Technicolor! Be sure to
check in regularly for news on the finest
roster of record producers.
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New
Website – Welcome to the SJP / Dodgy
website in all new Technicolor! Be sure to
check in regularly for news on the finest
roster of record producers.
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