Owen Morris

For 1930s British Conservative MP, see Owen Temple-Morris.

Owen Morris is a music producer who has worked with rock bands such as Oasis, The Fratellis, Ash, The View and The Verve. He started working in the music industry as a sound engineer at Spaceward Studio in Cambridge when he was 16. He continued as an engineer until 1994, when he mixed and mastered Oasis's debut album Definitely Maybe. He continued working with Oasis for their subsequent two albums (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) and Be Here Now (1997). Morris appears on the cover of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? holding the album's master tape.

He also produced The Verve album A Northern Soul (1995), Pusherman's "Floored" (1996), Ash's 1977 (1996) and the debut UK album, For God's Sake for Thai rock star Sek Loso. In 2000 he recorded and produced Ash's album Free All Angels. He produced The Paddingtons debut album "First Comes First," which was released in October 2005 on Poptones Records. In the early summer of 2006 he produced Hats Off to the Buskers, the debut album of Dundee band The View, released 22 January 2007 through Columbia Records 1965 Records label and reaching number 1 in the UK Albums Chart. Morris also produced the band's second album Which Bitch? released in February 2009.

In 2011 Owen Morris recorded and produced The Stagger Rats first album in Budapest. Owen also mixed several tracks for The Kaiser Chiefs album The Future Is Medieval including the first single, Little Shocks off their last album. In 2011 Owen also composed and performed the soundtrack for the English director Ronnie Thompson's new film "Tower Block" Also Owen produced tracks for the new British band Towns including their first single Gone are the days. Owen is currently composing another soundtrack for Ronnie Thompson's next film. He is also currently in the process of mastering the album of Edinburgh Rock n' Roll band The Holy Ghosts.

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