Bernard Butler

Bernard Butler biography

Butler names former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr as his major inspiration. He started learning to play guitar after hearing Marr and was able to play all Smiths songs by ear. He is often seen performing with a 1961 cherry red Gibson ES-355 TD SV (Stereo Varitone) with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.

Butler is managed by Rough Trade's Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee.

Butler won the Producer's Award at the 2009 BRIT Awards, Producer Of The Year at the 2008 Music Managers Forum Awards, and was nominated for Best Producer at the 2009 Music Week Awards.

In 2009 Butler co-wrote/produced/played on tracks by The Veils, Tommy Reilly, Jonathan Jeremiah, Duffy, Kate Jackson, Catherine A.D. He completed Kate Nash's second album My Best Friend Is You at his own "355" Studios .

In 2010 Butler worked concurrently with Nerina Pallot, Fyfe Dangerfield, Noisettes, Slow Club, Gabrielle, Howling Bells, The Veils, Simon Dine, as well as the new artists Vince, Daley, Summer Camp, Joe Worricker, Jodie Low, and Scott McFarnon. He switches between co-writing, producing and performing and sometimes all three on any of these works.

Discography

Suede

• 1993 - Suede - Suede (Mercury Music Prize winner)
• singles: "The Drowners", "Metal Mickey", "Animal Nitrate", "So Young"

* 1994 - Suede - "Stay Together" (Non-album single)

• 1994 - Suede - Dog Man Star
• singles: "We are the Pigs", "The Wild Ones", "New Generation"

• 1997 - Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies
• (collection of Suede B-sides)

Solo

• 1998 - Bernard Butler - People Move On
• singles: "Stay", "Not Alone", "A Change of Heart"

* 1999 - Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers

• singles: "Friends and Lovers", "You Must Go On"

McAlmont and Butler

• 1995 - McAlmont and Butler - The Sound of McAlmont and Butler
• singles: "Yes", "You Do"

* 2002 - McAlmont and Butler - Bring It Back

• singles: "Falling", "Bring it Back"

* 2006 - McAlmont and Butler

• single: "Speed"

The Tears

• 2005 - The Tears - Here Come The Tears
• singles: "Refugees", "Lovers"

Collaborator/producer

• Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid (1995)
• Neneh Cherry - Man (1996)
• Booth and the Bad Angel - Booth And The Bad Angel (1996)
• Hopper - English And French (1996)
• Bert Jansch - Crimson Moon (2000) and Edge of a Dream (2002)
• Heather Nova - South (2001)
• Bernard & Edwyn - "Message For Jojo" (2001)
• The Libertines - "What a Waster" (2002), "Don't Look Back Into The Sun" (2003)
• Mark Owen - "Four Minute Warning" (2003), co-wrote b-side "Jay Walker"
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Shoot from the Hip (2003)
• The Veils - The Runaway Found (2003), Sun Gangs (2009)
• The Cribs - "You're Gonna Lose Us" (2005)
• 1990s - Cookies (2007), Kicks (2009)
• Sharleen Spiteri - Melody (2008)
• Sons And Daughters - This Gift (2008)
• Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life (2008)
• Duffy - Rockferry (2008)
• Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (2008)
• Tricky - Knowle West Boy (2008)
• Duke Special - I Never Thought This Day Would Come (2008)
• Cut Off Your Hands - You And I (2008)
• Findlay Brown - Love Will Find You (2009)
• Tommy Reilly - Words On The Floor (2009)
• Fyfe Dangerfield - "Faster Than the Setting Sun" and "She Needs Me", Fly Yellow Moon (2010)
• Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You (2010)
• Nerina Pallot - Year of the Wolf (2011)

References

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