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

• Seventeen Seconds, The Cure (1980, Fiction)
• Faith, The Cure (1981, Fiction)
• Fourth Drawer Down, The Associates (1981, Situation 2)
• Sulk, The Associates (1982, Associates)
• Into the Rain, Music For Pleasure (1982, Polydor)
• 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 and live DVD, 1983, Polydor)
• Vermine In Ermine Marc Almond 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)
• Once Around The World, The Stunning (1992, Solid Records)
• Mute, Catchers (1994, Setanta)
• 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)
• Further, Geneva (1997, Nude/Sony)
• White on Blonde, Texas (1997, Mercury Records)
• This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, 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)
• Another Day" (Lene Marlin)(September,2003)
• "My Generation", The Zimmers (2007)
• Those Thousand Seas, Claire Tchaikowski (2009, Grá Mór Phonic Records)
• The Priests, (2008, Sony/BMG)

External links

• Allmusic.com discography
• Nettwerk Management discography
• Interview with Sound on Sound about working with The Cure

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