Geoff Heslop Explained

Geoff Heslop
Birth Date:	1947 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	Corbridge, Northumberland, England
Instrument:	Guitar
Occupation:	Record producer, musician, songwriter
Years Active:	1960s–present
Label:	Rubber Records, Black Crow Records, Shipbuilders, Shipyard
Associated Acts:	Mission Shift, Ribbon Road
Website:	http://www.theshipbuilders.com/about/artist.php?pagepath=geoff_heslop

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

Career

After training as a recording engineer, Heslop 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) and Redesdale Studios (with singer Dick Gaughan).

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

He now owns and runs Shipyard Studios with his daughter and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label.

Records produced by Geoff Heslop

Source:^[1]

1970s

1972

• Don't Panic (Pete Scott)
• His Round (Tony Capstick and Hedgehog Pie)

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^[2] (Mike Harding)

1976

• Songs and Buttered Haycocks (Dave Burland)
• The Rochdale Cowboy Rides Again^[2] (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

• Just Act Normal^[3] (Hedgehog Pie)
• The Traveller^[4] (Allan Taylor
• Songs of Ewan MacColl (Dick Gaughan, Dave Burland and Tony Capstick)
• Nowt So Good'll Pass (Bob Fox and Stu Luckley)
• On Two Levels (Sean McGuire and Josephine Keegan)

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^[5] (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

• Double Trouble (Maxie and Mitch)
• Circle Round Again (Allan Taylor)
• Harthope Burn (Joe Hutton, Will Atkinson and Willy Taylor)
• On the Other Side (Alan Hull) (with Mickey Sweeney)

1984

• Under the Rain (Rab Noakes)

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

• Leather Launderette (Bert Jansch and Rod Clements)
• Another Little Adventure (Alan Hull)
• Common Ground (Kathryn Tickell)

1990s

1990

• Hootz! (Simon Thoumire and Ian Carr)

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

• Opus Blue (Catriona MacDonald 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)

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)

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

External links

• Geoff Heslop
• Ribbon Road
• Mission Shift
• Black Crow Records
• RubberRecords

Notes and References

1. Web site: Artist's page on Shipbuilders . theshipbuilders.com . 2009-09-14.
2. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p477306/biography|pure_url=yes}} Biography by Steven McDonald ]. Allmusic.com . 14 September 2009.
3. http://clauskamp.dk/music/hedgehogpie.htm Porthole Issue 2 Summer 1996
4. Web site: Allan Taylor Discography . 15 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091002041853/http://www.allantaylor.com/discography/traveller/index.html . 2 October 2009 . dead .
5. Web site: Allan Taylor Discography . 15 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707113250/http://www.allantaylor.com/discography/roll/ . 7 July 2011 . dead .