Geoff Heslop (born 3 June 1947 in

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land on ...

, England) is an English record producer and musician.

Career

After training as a recording engineer, Geoff turned to record production, producing albums for the Rubber Records label in Newcastle upon Tyne. He went on to set up the Black Crow Records label, the Coquetdale Music Publishing company (with

Kathryn Tickell Kathryn Tickell, OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English musician, noted for playing the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. Music career Early life Kathryn Tickell was born in Walsall, then in Staffordshire, to parents who originated from N ...

) and

Redesdale Studios Redesdale Studios was a Northumberland recording studio founded in 1996. It was situated in Elsdon in North Northumberland. It began as a partnership between Rubber and Black Crow Records manager Geoff Heslop, Scottish singer and songwriter Di ...

(with singer

Dick Gaughan Richard Peter Gaughan (born 17 May 1948) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs. He is regarded as one of Scotland's leading singer-songwriters. Early years Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Roy ...

. In the 1990s he put together a 2nd publishing company with his songwriter wife Brenda Heslop named Ribbon Road Music and issued 5 albums. He now owns and runs Shipyard Studios with his daughter Jill and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label.

Records produced by Geoff Heslop

1970s

;1972 * ''Don't Panic'' ( Pete Scott) * ''His Round'' (

Tony Capstick Joseph Anthony Capstick (27 July 1944 – 23 October 2003) was an English comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster. Life and career First son of Joe Capstick, a wireless operator in the RAF, and his wife, June, née Duncan, he was born in Roth ...

and

Hedgehog Pie Hedgehog Pie were a British folk rock group from the north-east of England, that evolved between 1969 and 1971. Despite frequent line-up changes, they built up a considerable regional and national following and produced three highly regarded a ...

) ;1973 *''Very Good Time'' (Derek Brimstone) ;1974 *''Life of a Man'' (The Buskers) *''Punch and Judy Man'' (

) *''There Was This Bloke'' (

Mike Harding Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist. Harding has also been a photographer, traveller, filmmaker and playwright. Early life and education Harding's ...

, Tony Capstick, Bill Barclay and Derek Brimstone) ;1975 *''Mrs 'Ardin's Kid'' (Mike Harding) ;1976 *''Songs and Buttered Haycocks'' (

Dave Burland Dave Burland (born 12 July 1941, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English folk singer and guitarist. A former policeman, he has been performing in English folk clubs since 1968 and has been described by ''The Guardian'' as havin ...

) *''The Rochdale Cowboy Rides Again'' (Mike Harding) *''Shuffleboat River Farewell'' (Derek Brimstone) *''Broken-down Gentlemen'' (John Leonard and

John Squire Jonathan Thomas "John" Squire (born 24 November 1962)Larkin, Colin (ed.) (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave'', Virgin Books, is an English musician, songwriter and painter. He was the guitarist for The Stone Roses, a rock ba ...

) *''5 Hand Reel'' (

Five Hand Reel Five Hand Reel was a Scottish/English/Irish Celtic rock band of the late 1970s, that combined experiences of traditional Scottish and Irish folk music with electric rock arrangements. The members of the band were Dick Gaughan (born 17 May 1948) ...

) *''Jimmy the Moonlight'' ( Pete Scott) ;1977 *''Alba'' (

Alba ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scottish people, Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed i ...

) *''Mike Harding's Back'' (Mike Harding) *''Tony Capstick Does a Turn'' (Tony Capstick) *''Out of the Brown'' ( Mike Elliott) ;1978 *''Just Act Normal'' (

) *''The Traveller'' ( Allan Taylor *''Songs of Ewan MacColl'' (

, Dave Burland and Tony Capstick) *''Nowt So Good'll Pass'' (

Bob Fox and Stu Luckley Bob Fox is an English folk guitarist and singer, specialising in traditional and contemporary songs of the north-east of England and in particular, the coal mining communities thereof. He is noted for his collaborations with Tom McConville and S ...

) *''On Two Levels'' (

Sean McGuire Sean Maguire (born 1976) is an English actor and singer. Sean Maguire or McGuire may also refer to: People *Sean Maguire (footballer) (born 1994), Irish footballer * Sean Maguire (American football) (born 1994), American football player *Sean MacG ...

and Josephine Keegan) ;1979 *''Kingdom'' (

Dando Shaft Dando Shaft is the name of a short-lived psychedelic/progressive folk and folk jazz band that was primarily active in the early 1970s. The band has attracted a measure of attention from recent compilation releases and Dando Shaft is today known ...

) *''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'' (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'' (

) *''Joe Hutton of Coquetdale'' ( Joe Hutton) ;1983 *''Double Trouble'' (Maxie and Mitch) *''Circle Round Again'' (Allan Taylor) *''Harthope Burn'' (Joe Hutton,

Will Atkinson William Henry Atkinson (born 14 October 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Having begun his professional career with Hull City in 2006, Atkinson spent time on loan with Port Vale, Mansfield Town, Rochdale (t ...

and

Willy Taylor Willy Taylor (5 January 1916 – 2 November 2000) was a fiddler from Northumberland, England. He performed with Joe Hutton and Will Atkinson as the Shepherds. Music career He was born at Lilburn Tower near Wooler. When he was a boy, he lear ...

) *''On the Other Side'' (

Alan Hull James Alan Hull (20 February 1945 – 17 November 1995) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne. Career Hull was born at 68 Sutton's Dwellings, Adelaide Terrace, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyn ...

) (with Mickey Sweeney) ;1984 *''Under the Rain'' (

Rab Noakes Robert Ogilvie Noakes (13 May 1947 – 11 November 2022) was a Scottish singer-songwriter. Noakes was at the forefront of Scottish folk music for over 50 years and recorded over 19 studio albums. He toured folk clubs and often performed at the G ...

) ;1985 *''Shake Loose the Border'' (Chuck Fleming and Gerry Kaley) ;1986 *''Borderlands'' (

) *''From Sewingshields to Glendale'' (Kathryn Tickell,

Alistair Anderson The High Level Ranters are a Northumbrian traditional musical group founded in 1964, best known for being one of the first bands in the revival of the Northumbrian smallpipes. Name and history The name was chosen as a combination of the locat ...

, 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 *'' Leather Launderette'' (

Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...

and

Rod Clements Roderick Parry Clements (born 17 November 1947 in North Shields, Northumberland) is a British guitarist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He formed the folk-rock band Lindisfarne with Alan Hull in 1970, and wrote "Meet Me on the Co ...

) *''Another Little Adventure'' (Alan Hull) *''Common Ground'' (Kathryn Tickell)

1990s

;1990 *''Hootz!'' (

Simon Thoumire Simon Thoumire is a Scottish musician and an English concertina virtuoso. Thoumire has played all over the world. A winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989,Ian Carr Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-fusion band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall ...

) ;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 Raymond J. Stubbs (born 24 May 1956) is an English broadcaster and former footballer. He worked as a presenter for the BBC, ESPN and BT Sport, and now works for Talksport radio. His most recent role is presenting the coverage of the World Seni ...

) *''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 The High Level Ranters are a Northumbrian traditional musical group founded in 1964, best known for being one of the first bands in the revival of the Northumbrian smallpipes. Name and history The name was chosen as a combination of the locat ...

) ;1993 *''The Music of My Heart'' (Ribbon Road) *''Waltzes for Playboys'' (Simon Thoumire Three) *''The Mortgaged Heart'' (Ribbon Road) ;1994 *''Opus Blue'' (

Catriona MacDonald Catriona Macdonald is a musician and teacher from Shetland and is considered to be one of the world's leading traditional fiddle players. Background Macdonald started studying fiddle with Dr Tom Anderson MBE in 1981 at age 11 (she consider ...

and Ian Lowthian) *''The Moving Cloud'' (Ribbon Road)

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)

References

External links

Geoff Heslop

Ribbon Road

Mission Shift

Black Crow Records

RubberRecords
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