Geoff Heslop

Geoff Heslop
Born	(1947-06-03) 3 June 1947 (age 77) Corbridge, Northumberland, England
Occupation(s)	Record producer, musician, songwriter
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	Rubber Records, Black Crow Records, Shipbuilders, Shipyard
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Geoff Heslop (born 3 June 1947 in Northumberland, England) is an English record producer and musician. ^[1]

Career

After training as a recording engineer, Heslop turned to record production, producing albums for the Rubber Records label in Newcastle upon Tyne.^{[ citation needed ]}

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).^{[ citation needed ]}

In the 1990s, he put together a second publishing company with his songwriter wife Brenda Heslop, Ribbon Road Music, and issued five albums.^{[ citation needed ]}

He now^{[ when? ]} owns and runs Shipyard Studios with his daughter and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label.^{[ citation needed ]}

Records produced by Geoff Heslop

Source: ^[2]

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 ^[3] (Mike Harding)

1976

• Songs and Buttered Haycocks (Dave Burland)
• The Rochdale Cowboy Rides Again ^[3] (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 ^[4] (Hedgehog Pie)
• The Traveller ^[5] (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 ^[6] (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)

References

1. "Geoff Heslop". Discogs . Retrieved 21 February 2025.
2. "Artist's page on Shipbuilders". theshipbuilders.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
3. "Biography by Steven McDonald". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
4. Porthole Issue 2 Summer 1996 Archived 4 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Allan Taylor Discography". Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
6. "Allan Taylor Discography". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2009.

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