I\u2019ve been involved in all aspects of music production for over forty years now, as a singer-songwriter, musician, sound engineer and record producer. I\u2019m now based in Madrid but started out performing as a teenager in the pubs and clubs of North East of England before moving to Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Here I trained as an engineer\/producer at Impulse Studio \u2013 the home of NWOBHM label Neat Records \u2013 and worked with a range of artists including Lindisfarne and Venom – while continuing to write, record and tour my own material. Screen Idols album \u2018Follow Your Heart\u2019 was released in 1988.<\/p>\n
During the 1990s I continued to do production work for the Bleeding Hearts label (Abbadon, Venom, Paul DiAnno\u2019s Killers, Bernie Torme etc) and I also released two studio albums \u2013 \u2018Blasthead (1993) and \u2018Gunk\u2019 (1996) – with the band \u2018Forgodsake\u2019 who completed several UK tours supporting the likes of The Dogs D\u2019Amour, Freak of Nature and Mr Big.<\/p>\n
During the 90s, I also became involved with \u2018folk-metal pioneers\u2019 Skyclad, first as a producer and session musician (for ten albums) and then as a writer and lead vocalist. With Skyclad, I have released several albums \u2013 \u2018A Semblance Of Normality\u2019 (2004), \u2018In The All Together\u2019 (2009) and \u2018Forward Into The Past\u2019 (2017) – and have performed on numerous European tours and at festivals including Wacken, Rock Hard and Rockharz (Germany), The Gods of Metal (Italy), Leyendas del Rock (Spain), Tuska Festival (Finland), Sweden Rock, Hard Rock Hell (HRH) festivals (UK) and Hellfest (France).<\/p>\n
I have also worked as a live engineer with artists such as Venom, Skyclad and Twisted Sister at events such as the Milwaukee Metal Fest (US), the Dynamo Festival (Holland) and gigs like the Astoria (London).<\/p>\n
My first solo album \u2013 \u2018Flying in the Face of Logic\u2019 – an acoustic\/folk-rock and largely autobiographical album was released by Global Music in July\u00a02011 and I continue to write, record and tour with Skyclad and doing my own solo acoustic gigs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been involved in all aspects of music production for over forty years now, as a singer-songwriter, musician, sound engineer and record producer. I\u2019m now based in Madrid but started out performing as a teenager in the pubs and clubs of North East of England before moving to Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1980s. Here … Continue reading Biography<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kevinridley.groovemachine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0311bws.jpg\" "\\"new")
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