Greg Haver: Producer Biography: Greg Haver is an award-winning producer with a background in engineering, programming and drumming. He built his impressive reputation with artists including the Manic Street Preachers, Melanie C, INME, Opshop, Codes, Kimbra, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and Bullet For My Valentine. He’s renowned for his diverse production skills and innovative arrangements. Greg has had a long-standing working relationship with the Manic Street Preachers, producing their "Lifeblood" album, which included the hit singles "The Love of Richard Nixon" and "Empty Souls". He also produced and co-produced tracks from their “Know Your Enemy” and “Send Away The Tigers” albums as well as working on earlier top-ten records for the band including, "There by the Grace of God" and "You Stole the Sun From My Heart". Greg was chosen as the band’s percussionist on their 2002/3 "Greatest Hits" tour. He has also produced songs for both James Dean Bradfield’s “The Great Western” and Nicky Wire’s “I Killed the Zeitgeist” solo albums. In 2004, Greg produced the "Beautiful Intentions" album for Melanie C, which included the top-ten UK single "Next Best Superstar" reaching gold status in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and also double platinum status in Portugal, spending 9 weeks at number one. Greg recorded tracks for the Catatonia multi platinum "International Velvet" album and for Super Furry Animals on the "Outspaced" and "Mwng" albums, including the single "Ysbeidiau Heulog". He’s produced several top 40 singles for INME, including "Faster the Chase" and "So You Know" along with additional production on the "White Butterfly" album. A talented mix engineer, Greg remixed The Cosmic Rough Riders hit "The Pain Inside" and NovaStar’s “Tunnel Vision”. In recent years Greg has recorded in markets as diverse as Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Latvia and Estonia, for artists including Opshop (triple platinum, multi-award winning album “Second Hand Planet” and the follow up “Until The End of Time”) The feelers (triple platinum "Playground Battle" and “Greatest Hits” albums) Junica’s “The Celebration”, Codes (award winning “Trees Dream In Algebra”), the “Super Constellation” and “This Good Life” albums for Marvin, Matt Springfield’s “Erase All Data”, Onirama’s “Sti Hora Ton Trelon” and Tribes of the City “For the Sleepy People” (MTV Europe Awards nominated). Greg has also worked in the film and television arena, recording and mixing the soundtrack for the 2001 Marc Evans BAFTA winning film "Beautiful Mistake" with the Velvet Underground's John Cale. He has also written music for several TV programmes and commercials. For the US market, Greg produced and co-wrote the song "The Ten Commandments of Bart" from the Simpsons' "Yellow" album with Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening. Greg has also produced music for several plays by poet Patrick Jones, and collaborated with James Dean Bradfield and many other artists on Jones’ album "Commemoration and Amnesia". Greg has produced and recorded songs for many and varied artists over several genres, including: Bullet For My Valentine, Skindread, People In Planes, Wilder, States of Emotion, Jay Leighton, The Fanclub, Dopamine, 60ft Dolls, Jesus Jones, Stuart Cables Killing for Company, The Afternoons, Richard Parfitt, Salvage, Big Linda, The Hot Puppies, Breed 77, Kennedy Soundtrack, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Zabrinski, Topper, Texas Radio Band, El Goodo, MC Mabon, Amy Wadge, Derrero, Budapest, A Silent Film, Little Fish, Mclusky, Another Story, Buffalo 77, Aynsley Lister, Alen Seed, Templeton Pek, States of Emotion, Ellie Lawson, Dirty Goods, The Diamond Noise, Storyfold and Drive By Audio. A respected drummer, Greg played on the Tom Jones multi platinum "Reload” album and has worked as a musician for Roger Daltrey, Daryl Hall, Corey Hart, Helen Terry, Nightcrawlers and Waterfront. He was a musical director for the launch of the Welsh Assembly concert and also spent several years as a songwriter for EMI Music Publishing and London Music. He set up Big Noise Recordings and the Boobytrap record label, the latter with DJ Huw Stephens and funding from Sony UK. Greg is a sought-after speaker who has appeared at The British Music Experience, The Dublin Music Show, by:Larm in Norway, the Resonate Seminar and SAE in Auckland, SAE Oxford, ACM, the Baltic Music Conference in Riga, Brighton’s The Great Escape and Manchester’s In The City. He has also given seminars for WMF, JAMES and Music Producers Guild in the UK. He is a music advisor to the Arts Council of Wales and has won several Best Producer Welsh Music Awards and the coveted Contribution to the Music Industry at the Pop Factory Awards. Discography: Credits include: (P = Produced, Co-P = Co-Produced, M = Mixed, E = Engineered, W = Written)M = Mixed, E = Engineered, W = Written) Artist Manic Street Preachers Title 'Send Away The Tigers' (album) 'Lifeblood' (album) 'Know Your Enemy' (album) 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' (album) 'Lipstick Traces' (album) 'Greatest Hits' 'National Treasures'(singles / album) Singles including: 'Indian Summer' 'The Love of Richard Nixon' 'Empty Souls' 'There By The Grace Of God' 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart' Templeton Pek Matt Springfeild Knives at Noon Annabel Fay Dusso and the Holy Smokes Onirama Albany Down Alen Seed Sleeping Dogs Chris Townsend Storyfold The Fanclub Katie Thompson Supermodel Kimbra Ellie Lawson The Diamond Noise Six60 Hermes Seven Days Jesus Jones Opshop Melanie C Contribution P/E P/M P P/E P/E P/E P/E Label Sony / Sony BMG P/E P/E P/E P/E E 'Slow Down For Nothing' (EP) 'Erase All Data' (album) 'Handshake of the Heartache' (single) 'Ruled By Fear' (single) 'Show Me The Right Way' (album tracks) 'Make it Rain' (single) 'Sti Hora Ton Trelon' (album) 'South of the City'(album) 'No More Silence' (album) 'Myth Reducer' (album) 'Death of a Muse' (album) 'Copenhagen' (album) 'Electric Pylons' (EP) 'Rocket Science' (album) 'Let's Measure Next Year Better' (album) 'Impossible' (album) 'To the Mountains' (album) 'Deep for you' (single) 'Learn' (single) 'Never Say Never' (single) 'Finest Wine' (single) 'Jack' (single) 'No Age for Saints' (single) 'Outside' (single) 'Harder to Breathe' (EP) 'Right Here, Right Now' (re-record) 'Secondhand Planet' (album) 'Until The End Of Time' (album) P P P Century Media AKA Music Liberation Music/ Mushroom P / Co-P EMI P P P P P House of Phoenix Lyra Records AD Recordings Warner Music Spain Quicksand Recordings P/M/E Pledge Music P P Self Underdogs Music P P P P P/M/E P P Sellaband Self NZOA Self Mother Tounge CRS Hermes Records P Self P P 'Beautiful Intentions' (album) P Self Siren Record (NZ) OpShop Music / Rhythm Method Red Girl Records/Warners Singles including: 'Next Best Superstar' 'Better Alone' Nicky Wire James Dean Bradfield Bullet For My Valentine INME Black River Drive Super Furry Animals Catatonia The Feelers GEM Carly Binding CODES John Cale Jonny Love The Hot Puppies The Earlybirds Marvin Wilder The Crimea Tribes of the City The Afternoons The Simpsons 48 May The Dirty 9s Drive By Audio So What Tanel Pandar And The Sun Breed 77 'I Killed The Zeitgeist' (album) 'The Great Western' (album tracks) 'You' 'Play With Me' 'White Buttefly' (album tracks) Singles including: 'Faster The Chase' 'So You Know' '7 Weeks' 'Perfect Flaws' (album) 'Mwng' (album) 'Outspaced' (album) Tracks including: 'Guacamole' 'Ysbeidiau Heulog' 'Y Gwyneb lau' 'Gwreiddiau Dwfn' 'International Velvet' (album tracks) Additional tracks: 'Blow The Millenium Part II' 'I'm Cured' 'Mantra For The Lost' 'Apathy Revolution' 'Intercontinental Sigh' 'Playground Battle' (album) 'Whoever Said' (greatest hits single) 'New' (album) 'So Radiate' (album) 'Trees Dream In Algebra' (album) 'Beautiful Mistake' Soundtrack 2001 BAFTA Winning Marc Evans Film 'Jonny Love' (album) 'Courage' (album) 'Blue Hands' (album) 'Favourite Fears' (album) 'This Good Life' (album) 'Super Constellation' (album) 'Girls Vs Boys' (single) 'Secrets of the Witching Hour' (album) 'For The Sleepy People' (album) 'The Days We Found In The Sun' (album) 'My Lost City' (album) 'Rocket Summer' (album) 'Sweet Action' (album) 'Fan Fiction' (album) 'The Ten Commandments Of Bart' (single) 'The Mad Love'(album) 'Stop Screaming Start Dreaming' (album) 'Bring The Pain' (album) 'Tip Toes' (album) 'Here Comes The Sun' (album tracks) 'Alive' 'Remember That Day' P/M/E P/E P/M/E Red Ink Sony Music PYNCI Add. P Music For Nations/V2 P/E P/E P/E Co-P E Placid Casual / Creation E Blanco Y Negro P/M Warner Music New Zealand P P P/E M/E Excelsior FMR/Warners EMI S4C P P Warners P/M/E P P/M/E P/E Co-P / E M THP Warners TBA P/M/E P/M/E Platforma FF Vinyl Dockrad Saturday Records Saturday Records Saturday Records Co-W / P Geffen P P/M/E FMR SciFi Girl P/E P P/M/E Rock Star Games Sellaband Crunch Industry P Albert Productions Rough Trade FreeTwoOne Zabrinski Soft Toy Heroes Superhuman Another Story They Walk Among Us Squeezebox Studio Arcade Make Good Your Escape The Last Grand Budapest Bluesky Research The Stop Motion Men Gwawr Jay Leighton States Of Emotion Buffalo 77 Pluto Novastar Goodnight Nurse Patrick Jones Big Linda Hogan Nathan King MC Mabon Cape Fear Derrero Richard J. Parfitt Studio Arcade Asylum Killing For Company The Fight The Relatives Salvage The Checks The Kennedy Soundtrack Tetra Splendor Skindread Cosmic Rough Riders Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 60 Ft Dolls Small Victories / Tommy And The Chauffeur Amy Wadge Sal Big Leaves Puscha 'Yeti' (album tracks) 'Thank God The Takeaways Open' (album) 'Taste It' (album) 'Traffic' (EP) 'Mathematics. Art in Progress' (album tracks ) 'Drowing in Shallow Water'(album tracks) 'IDT' (album) 'Never Look Back Here Again' (mini album) 'Alive' (EP) 'Budapest' (EP) Various Singles 'Spit and Chew' (EP) 'YFory' (single) 'Polaroids And Stills' (album) 'Hours'(album) 'Black And White To Gold' (album) 'Memento' (album) 'Dance Stamina' 'Tunnelvision' 'This Is It' 'Commemoration & Amnesia' (album) 'I Loved You' (album) 'Boom!' (album) 'The Crowd' (album tracks) 'Jonez Williamz' (album) 'The Hunt For Meaning' (album tracks) 'Your Kingdom' (album) 'Derrero' (album) 'Fixation With Long Journeys'(album) 'Small Pocket Machine' (EP) 'Highlights In Slow Motion' (album tracks) 'IDT'(album) Various Tracks P/M/E P/M/E Ankst Ness Records P P/M/E P / M /E Sound Division Control Yourself Records Monokos Music P/M/E FF Vinyl P/M/E P/M/E Kosh Records Fierce Panda P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E P P P/M/E Re-M / M Re-M Re-M P/M/E Self Self Decca RGR TPF Records Belafonte Records Strata Music Rinse Juno Records EMI EMI Warners Big Noise P/E Co-P / M / E P P/M/E P/M/E Sony ATV Publishing Hogan Music Hum Sain Ankst P P/M/E Modern World Big Noise P/M/E Rough Trade P/M P/E/M Various Tracks Album 'Now or Ever' 'Searchlight' 'Butter Boys' 'Jewel Box' 'Wrong Day' 'Barracuda' Various 'The Pain Inside' Various Various 'Holding On Hopefully' (album) P/E/M P/E/M P/M/E P/M/E P/M Unsigned Simon Banks Management/SonyATV Publishing Stuart Cable Music Repossesion Records Spank Records Despatches Pie Club/Full Time Hobby P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E Add. P / M E/M P/M/E P/M/E Instant Karma EMI Chrysalis Sony / BBC Poptones Ankst Rough Trade Boobytrap 'The Famous Hour' 'Dysfunctional' 'Alien And Familiar' (album) 'Steal Your Life Back' (album) P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E P/M/E FF Vinyl Copro Dellorso Full On Entertainment Dopamine Tourist The Rabble Zabrinski 'A Lesson In Dying' (EP) 'The Minutes Last For Years' (Album) 'Carry On' 'Friday Night' 'Koala Ko-Ordination' P/M/E P/M Golf Records NZOA P/M NZOA P/M/S ANKST