John Leckie - Recent Career

Recent Career

Leckie's career took another important forward step in 1999 when producing the debut album Showbiz for Taste Media’s then new signings Muse. This went platinum on the heels of the band's breakthrough 2001 second album Origin of Symmetry, also produced by Leckie, which reached No. 3 in the UK album Chart.

In 2002, Leckie produced a single for Suede (Positivity from the album New Morning), and the eleventh album of Latin superstars and three time Grammy winners Los Lobos (Good Morning Atztlan), for Mammoth Records at CGR Studio’s in California. The latter album entered the Billboard 100 at number 82.

In 2003, he oversaw the remastering of the The Stone Roses compilation on Silvertone and produced the One Minute Silence album “One Lie Fits All” for Taste Media. At this time Leckie also did a stereo mix of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum from the original four-track tape for vinyl release only. The track was mixed on an Edwardian houseboat called "Astoria” which belongs to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Leckie also produced a solo LP for John Power (from The La's and Cast) for Eagle Rock and shared in producing The Blockheads album 'Where's The Party"

In 2004, he produced tracks for New Order, "Waiting For The Siren's Call" and highly acclaimed My Computer No CV. Working in the USA he produced an album for Longwave “There’s A Fire” with RCA.

In 2005, Leckie produced the highly critically lauded 4th album for My Morning Jacket entitled “Z”, also for RCA, recorded at Allaire Studios in upstate New York and mixed at infamous Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Later that year, he produced a self-titled album for Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela for Irish label Rubyworks. This album, after initially going straight to number one in Ireland, continued gaining ground across the world and was No.1 in the American 'Heat Seekers' chart and also a regular No.1 in the Billboard World Music charts for many months.

In 2006, he produced the debut album by newcomers Tiny Dancers entitled 'Free School Milk' for Parlophone, the EP 'Fast', and the track 'Back To The Start' for Razorlight for Vertigo / Mercury.

2007 saw a union of two household names around Manchester, John Leckie and Doves. Leckie produced 3 tracks for the new album between Rockfield and Mickie Most’s RAK Studios. John also traveled to LA to produce further tracks by Rodrigo y Gabriela and was reunited with Baaba Maal (this time in a London studio) to produce the album Televison He also recorded what became known as The John Leckie String Quartet Sessions for Scott Matthews

In 2008, Leckie produced a debut album for new signing to Mercury, Sergeant, and travelled to India, as part of a British Council led project to produce for local Indian Rock acts at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai: Medusa, Swarathma, Indigo Children and Advaita.

In 2009 he travelled to Mexico to work again with Rodrigo y Gabriela on tracks for the album 11:11. Leckie then returned to Abbey Road to record and produce the jazz sounds of Portico Quartet and was also called in to remaster the Anniversary Edition Box Set of The Stone Roses eponymous first LP complete with John's videos of the sessions and some long lost demos. Leckie also appeared in TV's Classic Album Series playing and commenting on tapes from Plastic Ono Band sessions he had worked on some 40 years previous at Abbey Road Studios.

In 2010, Leckie produced The Coral's much acclaimed 6th studio album, Butterfly House. Back at Abbey Road this time to record live the album Hedonism for the award winning 11 piece folk big band Bellowhead. He also gave a masterclass talk on his work at British Music Experience at O2 in London.