Geoff Heslop (born 3 June 1947 in Northumberland, England) is an English record producer and musician.[1]

Career

After training as a recording engineer, Heslop turned to record production, producing albums for the Rubber Records label in Newcastle upon Tyne.[citation needed]

He went on to set up the Black Crow Records label, the Coquetdale Music Publishing company (with Kathryn Tickell) and Redesdale Studios (with singer Dick Gaughan).[citation needed]

In the 1990s, he put together a second publishing company with his songwriter wife Brenda Heslop, Ribbon Road Music, and issued five albums.[citation needed]

He now[when?] owns and runs Shipyard Studios with his daughter and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label.[citation needed]

Records produced by Geoff Heslop

Source:[2]

1970s

1972
1973
  • Very Good Time (Derek Brimstone)
1974
  • Life of a Man (The Buskers)
  • Punch and Judy Man (Tony Capstick)
  • There Was This Bloke (Mike Harding, Tony Capstick, Bill Barclay and Derek Brimstone)
1975
  • Mrs 'Ardin's Kid[3] (Mike Harding)
1976
  • Songs and Buttered Haycocks (Dave Burland)
  • The Rochdale Cowboy Rides Again[3] (Mike Harding)
  • Shuffleboat River Farewell (Derek Brimstone)
  • Broken-down Gentlemen (John Leonard and John Squire)
  • 5 Hand Reel (Five Hand Reel)
  • Jimmy the Moonlight (Pete Scott)
1977
  • Alba (Alba)
  • Mike Harding's Back (Mike Harding)
  • Tony Capstick Does a Turn (Tony Capstick)
  • Out of the Brown (Mike Elliott)
1978
1979
  • Kingdom (Dando Shaft)
  • You Can't Fool the Fat Man (Dave Burland)
  • Up the Town (The Buskers, Sean McGuire and Winter's Armoury)

1980s

1980
  • Roll on the Day[6] (Allan Taylor)
  • Port of Call (Tom McConville and Kieran Halpin)
1981
  • The Champion String Band (The Champion String Band)
1982
  • At Last It's (Mike Elliott)
  • The Streets of Everywhere (Tom McConville and Kieran Halpin)
  • Wish We Never Had Parted (Bob Fox and Stu Luckley)
  • Joe Hutton of Coquetdale (Joe Hutton)
1983
1984
1985
  • Shake Loose the Border (Chuck Fleming and Gerry Kaley)
1986
  • Borderlands (Kathryn Tickell)
  • From Sewingshields to Glendale (Kathryn Tickell, Alistair Anderson, Joe Hutton, Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Mike Tickell, Allan Wood, The John Dagg Band)
1987
  • The Grand Chain (Alistair Anderson)
  • Mouthorgan (Will Atkinson) (with Alistair Anderson)
1988

1990s

1990
1991
  • Syncopace (Syncopace)
  • The Kathryn Tickell Band (The Kathryn Tickell Band)
  • Warksburn (Mike Tickell) (with Kathryn Tickell)
  • Blue Skies, Dark Nights (Roly Johnson)
  • The Border Piper (Joe and Hannah Hutton)
  • Jane of Biddlestone (Adrian D. Schofield)
  • Frisco Bound (Ray Stubbs)
  • Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Ray Stubbs R and B All Stars)
1992
  • Signs (The Kathryn Tickell Band)
  • Welcome to the Dene (Willy Taylor)
  • A Difficult Fish (Johnny Handle)
1993
  • The Music of My Heart (Ribbon Road)
  • Waltzes for Playboys (Simon Thoumire Three)
  • The Mortgaged Heart (Ribbon Road)
1994

2000s

2001
  • The Tender Coming (Ribbon Road)
2008
  • Golden Bells (Brenda Heslop and Ribbon Road)
2009
  • As the Stories Burn (Martin Heslop)
  • "Speaking Out" (Mission Shift)
  • It's a Silk Cut World (Mission Shift)
2010
  • It Couldn't Last (Ribbon Road)
2012
  • Roadside Dreams (Ribbon Road)
2014
  • No Redemption Songs (Ribbon Road)
2016
  • Our Streets Are Numbered (Ribbon Road)
2018
  • Paper Dolls (Ribbon Road)
2019
  • Love On The Losing Side (Ribbon Road)

References

  1. ^ "Geoff Heslop". Discogs. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Artist's page on Shipbuilders". theshipbuilders.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Biography by Steven McDonald". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  4. ^ Porthole Issue 2 Summer 1996 Archived 4 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Allan Taylor Discography". Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
  6. ^ "Allan Taylor Discography". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2009.

Further reading

  • 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants', article in issue 62 of The Living Tradition Magazine, May/June 2007.
  • 'Selling Coals to Newcastle' by Judith Murphy, published by North East England History Institute 2008
  • 'The Mocking Horse' by Alan Hull, illustrated by Geoff Heslop
  • 'Dazzling Stranger, Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues revival' by Colin Harper, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2000
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Heslop
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