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john Pennington

Producer/Sound Engineer From Manchester

About Me


My World Visitor Map!
Ian Brown Perfoming Whilst Fighting A Very Large Man.
Get A Mac
I began My Life as a sound engineer in 1985, primarily as assistant at Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport, in Greater Manchester, UK. Initially working on projects with bands like The Smiths, Echo and the bunnymen.
by the Early 90s Id been working on some interesting pop projects, working with bands like The Housemartins, A certain ratio.
I was then given the chance to work on something really exciting which was the legendary "Bummed" album by "The Happy Mondays", Manchester's craziest Export. working along side Martin zero Hannett and again with a band called The High. who asked me to leave Strawberry and work for them i think it had something to do with the fact that thay offered a wage that was twenty times more than what I was getting at strawberry.
WHORE!
I started mixing Live shows for MOBY in 1994. I was only crew member in the beginning. We toured for 4 years enjoying many good times in venues large and small whilst building a team of like minded reprobates making moby's show bigger and better. His music got more "Rocky" with more guitars and less keyboards, which didnt translate to his Techno fan-base and the audiences started to thin out.
I move on to work with a London based band Fluke in 1996 on their Atom Bomb Tour . They had a energetic show which gave me a chance let go and to experiment with powerful PA Systems learning new skills and gaining confidence through stressful environments to produce a massive sound, which was bold and brash, fluke gained a huge respect for what they did live and in the studio and fans built up a huge following around success of the Risotto album
1999 saw the meteoric rise of Moby and his legendary PLAY Album. I gladly returned to my post mixing for Moby who's touring entourage had grown from 7 to 34. Mobys success with his PLAY album meant we were now filling worldwide arenas. I had lots of things to learn. which has been fun doing so!
I've Just been on tour with Bermudan, Heather Nova around Europe
And I'm About to go out on Tour with Thirteen Senses
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Derren Brown Proving Christianity is All in the Mind. Pt1
Derren Brown Proving Christianity is All in the Mind. Pt2

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Website: johnpennington.co.uk
Band Members:

Get Networking! If you Don't know Where You Are Going, Any Road Will Take You There!

Influences:

MySpace Avatars

Kraftwerk,
Captain Beefheart,
DJ Shadow,
Killing Joke,
New Order
N.W.A.
Stevie Wonder (Talking Book,Key of Life era)
Crystal Method,
Leftfield,
Massive Attack,
David Bowie,
The Smiths,
The Hollies,
John Barry
Ennio Morriconé
Moby
Public Enemy

Cool Slideshows

Sounds Like:

Schwab - DJs In a Row

MySpace Avatars

Kraftwerk,
Captin Beefheart,
DJ Shadow,
Killing Joke,
DR Dre,
(early) Stevie Wonder,
Crystal Method,
Leftfield,
Massive Attack,

Record Label: "I Know Theres Money Out There" Recordings
Type of Label: None

My Blog

American Visa Applications

I am about to start working with Moby Again. Hoorah!He is playing a one-off show in "Las Vegas" (I love the place)Even though England is green and cool and British!Vegas is still cool even though it i...
Posted by john Pennington on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:03:00 PST

my new friend

I've got a new friend who looks after my myspace for me.He just sits there all day, making sure that browsers who visit my myspace site are looking at the right things and pointing them in the right d...
Posted by john Pennington on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST

Someone else I know has had a mac G5 Quad explode on them!

Well, I never!Today ((well, Yesterday now)It's now Tuesday)"anyway".... I went to see a very good friend of mine, Ross "a singer/song writer" from Greater ManchesterRoss had asked me to meet up with h...
Posted by john Pennington on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:32:00 PST

My Mac G5 Quad just decided to Explode!

I've been very busy recently, touring with Heather Nova And co-Writing and Producing The New Album for Big Arm (Paul Ryder From The Happy Mondays New Band).I started working on the Mixes for a Music R...
Posted by john Pennington on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:21:00 PST

Happy mondays 2?

I am so pissed off that I didn't get the job mixing sound for Gnarls Barklay, I thought I'd write about the work I am about to begin with EX happy Mondays Bass Player Paul Ryder.I've been working (on ...
Posted by john Pennington on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:50:00 PST

Gnarls Barkley Update

OK. lets go back 2 weeks....I'd been waiting for a telephone call from Gnarls Barkleys Tour manager, a call which should have been a "these are the dates, these are the venues" kind of call....but... ...
Posted by john Pennington on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:13:00 PST

touring with gnarls barkley

just been asked to work for Gnarls Barkley www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkleyI have been asked by their tour manager, who I've worked with before on previous Moby tours, He's been offered the Gnarls Barkle...
Posted by john Pennington on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:05:00 PST