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
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