George Shilling

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George Shilling : biography

1966 –

George Edward Shilling (born 1966 in Redbridge, Essexhttp://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all/results?recordCount=-1&forenames=george&_includeForenamesVariants=on&surname=shilling&_includeSurnameVariants=on&fromYear=1950&toYear=1970&region=5&county=&mothersMaidenName=&_useMothersMaidenNameAsSurname=on&sortOrder=RK%3Atrue&_performExactSearch=on&event=B&recordType=ALL&route=) is an English musician, record producer, composer and audio engineer. He is the son of Eric Shilling, formerly of the English National Opera and actress Erica Johns. He studied ‘cello at the Royal College of Music and is best known as an audio engineer, a skill he was taught by Jerry Boys of Abbey Road and Livingston Recording Studios in London.

Record production credits

1990 I’m Free The Soup Dragons 1990 Indie Top 20, Vol. 9 Various Artists 1990 Lovegod The Soup Dragons 1990 Mother Universe The Soup Dragons (Remixing) 1996 You’re Telling Me Bobby Valentino 1997 Golden Mile My Life Story 1997 Shorty, Pt. 1 The Wannadies 1997 Shorty, Pt. 2 The Wannadies 1998 You And Me Song(Lounge Version) The Wannadies [Single] 1999 Other Sister Original Soundtrack 2000 Yeah [CD Single] Wannadies 2004 Transmusicales 25th Various Artists 2004 Technostalgia Sundae Club 2007 Megaphone Theology: B Sides and Rarities My Life Story 2007 Coldcut The Playlist Various Artists 2007 Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of Various Artists (Mixing} 2008 British Summer Time Sundae Club 2008 Great Unwanted [Bonus Tracks] Lucky Soul 2008 Pleasure [Single] The Soup Dragons I’m Free Soup Dragons [Single UK #5] Get The Girl And Kill The Baddies Pop Will Eat Itself [Single UK #9] Bed Five Thirty Airhead Boing 2010 Hello Heavy EZ Basic

Other Credits

2002 Wishbones David Knopfler (Sound Consultant)

External sources

  • George’s own website
  • video interview at Record production.com
  • [ George Shilling] at Allmusic
  • sound engineer and producer

Category:English record producers Category:English audio engineers Category:Living people Category:1966 births

Percussion, Cello and Keyboard credits

1998 People Move On Bernard Butler (Cello) 2003 Contacto Cabas (Mezcla) 2006 Volume I Billy Bragg (Percussion) 2008 Simple Andy Yorke (Cello, accordion) 2008 Great Unwanted [Bonus Tracks] Lucky Soul (Percussion and keyboards) 2010 Saturday Ocean Colour Scene (Cello)

Career

Shilling has worked with a diverse range of musical genres including artists such as Gabrielle, New Radicals, The Corrs, Blur, Texas, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Nicole Appleton, Johnny Hallyday Oasis, Mike Oldfield, Eternal, Boy George, James Brown, Mark Almond, Bernard Butler, The Fall, Steve Winwood and the popular light opera duo Operababes.

His first notable success was engineering the hit single The Only Way Is Up (1988) by Yazz and the Plastic Population and released by Big Life. His credits as Record producer include the Soup Dragons’s album Lovegod which included their cover of the Rolling Stones hit I’m Free and the most accomplished of the three albums My Life Story, The Golden Mile. He wrote a significant amount of songs and also recorded tracks for the English down-tempo band Sundae Club.{} He co-wrote "London Fantasy" for the French singer Nolwenn Leroy on her album Histoires Naturelles (2005), which was produced by Laurent Voulzy.{} In 2009 and 2010 he hosted sessions with Ocean Colour Scene at his studio in the Cotswolds. and played cello on their album Saturday. In 2010 he also recorded and mixed Classical Relief For Haiti’s single The Prayer, featuring a host of classical crossover artistes including Darius Campbell, Rhydian, Paul Potts and Julian Lloyd Webber.