KATHERINE PRIDDY ALBUM ENTERS THE UK ALBUM CHARTS! I was very honoured to have been asked by Katherine Priddy to produce her third album “These Frightening Machines” and which this month becomes her first UK Top 40 album going in at 21, as well as being Number 2 in the independent album charts and Number […]
Recorded over a four year period, Yova release their debut album “Nine Lives” this month. The album is a collaboration between Jova Redevska and Mark Vernon, and features contributions from a number of notable guest musicians such as pedal steel player BJ Cole, guitarist David Rhodes (known for his work with Peter Gabriel), Terry Edwards, […]
NEW ALBUM BY TORRES “THIRSTIER” RELEASED TODAY! Recorded during lockdown in November 2020 and consequently involving some fairly complex trans-Atlantic logistics, the new album by Mackenzie Scott aka Torres is finally released today! “Thirstier” is the 3rd album Rob has produced with Torres, “Sprinter” and “Three Futures” being the previous occasions, and similar to those […]
NEW ALBUM BY THE BLINDERS “FANTASIES OF A STAY AT HOME PSYCHOPATH” PRODUCED BY ROB A new album by Manchester based band The Blinders is released this week of 20th July. “Fantasies of a Stay at Home Psychopath” is the 2nd album by the band, and was produced by Rob at Eve Studios, Manchester in […]
NEW SOLO ALBUM FROM ROB! April 2020 sees Rob release his first solo album for 16 years! Recorded last year at his home and at Middle Farm Studios in Devon, the album features twenty, mainly instrumental tracks, commissioned by KPM as a production music album for the label…Rob adapted the tracks from various compositions he’d […]
YOVA A new year release from a new project Rob had a hand in, arranging, performing and co-writing, is out this month. Yova is a band project from old friend of Rob’s Mark Vernon and singer Jova Radevska. This track is part of a sequence to be released over the forthcoming months, and the project […]
BREL: CES GENS-LÀ ALBUM RELEASED Today, April 5th sees the release on Decca Records of “Brel: Ces Gen-Là”, a special, collaborative album of songs by the late, great Jaques Brel that involved Rob and the rest of the Marianne Faithfull group as “house band” for the Parisian leg of the recording. This remarkable album, recorded […]
R.I.P. SCOTT WALKER March 25th 2019: A Tribute from Rob Never actually met the guy, nearly did once, but his work had an immeasurable affect on my own, so I can’t let the sad news of his passing today go by without a little tribute to him here… Push comes to shove, I think, the work […]
INTERVIEW WITH ROB IN SONGWRITER MAGAZINE Songwriter magazine recently interviewed Rob for their regular feature “My songwriting hero”…Rob talks at length about his working relationship with the great Marianne Faithfull, her creative process, and with especial emphasis on her recent album “Negative Capability” that Rob co-produced. Songwriting Magazine Winter 2018 out now
MARIANNE FAITHFULL “NEGATIVE CAPABILITY” ALBUM RELEASED The much anticipated new album by Marianne Faithfull “Negative Capability” was released today (Nov 2nd) to huge acclaim. Co-produced by Rob with Warren Ellis & Head, this album also features contributions from Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan and Ed Harcourt. The album was recorded at La Frette studios on the […]
ROB INTERVIEWED ON THE TRAP SET 31st October sees Rob as featured guest on the wonderful podcast The Trap Set. This is a great series of interviews with famous drummers, which has previously included such luminaries as Billy Cobham, Steve Gadd, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Bill Bruford to name but a few… “Rob Ellis possesses […]
MARIANNE FAITHFULL SINGLE RELEASE “The Gypsy Faerie Queen”, being the first track to be released from the forthcoming Marianne Faithfull album “Negative Capability”, is out today (14th September). This song, co-written by Ms Faithfull and Nick Cave, and featuring Mr Cave on piano and vocals, was produced by Rob along with Warren Ellis & Head. […]
NICK DRAKE-REMEMBERED FOR A WHILE UNCUT REVIEW
REMEMBERED FOR A WHILE – THE MUSIC OF NICK DRAKE Rob will be contributing to a special evening performance of songs by Nick Drake this April 12th at 8pm at St George’s Brandon Hill in Bristol. Curated by Rob’s old Automatic Dlamini, and PJ Harvey colleague John Parish, the evening will feature many of Nick […]
CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1862-1918 Personal post from Rob…”25th March 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the death of the great composer Claude Debussy. I wanted to acknowledge it somehow as I think I can say, pretty unequivocally, that his is the music that has been most significant for me over anyone else’s in my life, and […]
Rob is currently busy on post production for a new Marianne Faithfull album, her 22nd as such, to be released over the summer. The album contains new materiel co-written with her by Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan, & Ed Harcourt, as well as some old favourites from her repertoire, re-recorded and given a new slant. This […]
Rob has had another very busy and eventful year, mainly touring yet again with Marianne Faithfull, including ecstatically received performances at Ronnie Scott’s club, The Roundhouse and a special concert in the re-opening week of The Bataclan in Paris a year after the appalling events of November 2015. All the live work Rob and band […]