Jim Chancellor & Martin Warr
The 6th Music Producers Guild Awards was held at the Park Plaza Riverbank hotel last week to recognize and honour some of the record industries’ most talented engineers, producers and artistes. There were also awards for those who had made outstanding contributions to our industry.
The evening was hosted by comedian Rich Hall and there were many guest award presenters including Bill Wyman and Seal.
There was also a surprise performance from “The Outstanding Contribution to UK Music” winner, the legendary Trevor Horn who had formed a supergroup for the evening. The band included original 10cc member Lol Crème, founder member of “Art Of Noise” and Grammy, Oscar and Brits winner Ann Dudley, drummer Ash Soan, producer Steve Lipson and special guest Seal. They treated us to a string Horns hits including “Two Tribes” (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), “Slave to the Rhythm” (Grace Jones), “Crazy” (Seal) and his very own “Video Killed the Radio Star”.
RME also made their debut as the sponsor for the A&R category. Synthax Audio UK MD, Martin Warr, made the presentation to Fiction Records Jim Chancellor, who has been credited for finding such acts as “Snow Patrol”.
Our thanks to the MPG for inviting us to join them on such a prestigious event.
The full list of winners were as follows:
• UK Producer of the Year, sponsored by The BRITS 2014: Flood (Mark Ellis) & Alan Moulder
• International Producer of the Year: Rick Rubin
• Recording Engineer of the Year: Guy Massey
• Mix Engineer of the Year: Mark ‘Spike’ Stent
• Mastering Engineer of the Year: John Dent
• Breakthrough Producer of the Year: Disclosure (Guy Lawrence, Howard Lawrence)
• Breakthrough Engineer of the Year: Dan Cox
• Re-mixer of the Year: MJ Cole (Matthew Coleman)
• UK Album of the Year: Foals – Holy Fire
• UK Single Song Release of the Year: Everything Everything – Kemosabe
• Studio of the Year: RAK Studios
• The A&R Award: Jim Chancellor
• The MPG Innovation Award, presented by the Music Producers Guild: David Bowie
• The MPG Inspiration Award, presented by the Music Producers Guild: Nile Rodgers
• Special Recognition Award: Sean Davies
• The Outstanding Contribution to UK Music: Trevor Horn