collaborations & production work

october 2009

Bernard Butler is currently producing american singer-songwriter Lissy Trullie debut album at RAK Studios in London.
24th july, 2009

Bernard Butler is currently producing Kate Nash's second album
Tommy Reilly's debut album 'Words on the Floor' produced by Bernard will be released on 21st September. Click here to watch the video for the single 'Jackets'.

20th april, 2009

The soundtrack of Richard Curtis last movie "The Boat That Rocked" includes a cover version of Lorraine Ellison's "Stay With Me" performed by Duffy and produced by Bernard Butler.

Bernard is currently producing the debut album of Channel 4's Orange Unsigned Act competition winner Tommy Reilly and he also has co-written and produced a song called "Heart Of Stone" for London artist Jonathan Jeremiah whose debut album will be released later in the year.
18th february, 2009

'The Veils' new album 'Sun Gangs' (out on april 6th) will include the song 'Sit Down By The Fire' which was produced by Bernard Butler and it is likely to be the first single from the album. Bernard has already produced several songs in the past for 'The Veils'.

16th february, 2009

Bernard has been working recently with Duffy on the new Warchild album 'Heroes' which is out today featuring a cover of Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Live And Let Die'.

Bernard also has produced Duffy on the new Diet Coke advert featuring a cover of Sammy Davis Jr. 'I've got to be me'. The ad will be premiered on ITV next wednesday during the Brit Awards ceremony.

There's an interesting interview with Bernard on the BBC site.
13th february, 2009

Bernard Butler has won the top prize at the Music Producers' Guild Awards as 'Producer of the year' beating the other nominees Brian Eno and Steve Mac. This prize doubles as a Brit Award for Best producer. The ceremony took place last night at London's Cafe de Paris and Duffy handed him the trophies.

Congratulations to Bernard for these well deserved awards.

20th january, 2009

Last night (january 20), Bernard made a surprise appearance and joined Duke Special onstage at Proud Galleries, Camden. He played guitar on 'Those Proverbs Were Made In Winter', a song co-written and produced by Bernard for Duke Special album'I Never Thought This Day Would Come' which was released in october.

There are a couple of videos of the performance from different angles on youtube (thanks to the uploaders):
- Video 1
- Video 2

17th january, 2009

1990s second album called 'Kicks' and produced by Bernard Butler will be released on march 23rd through Rough Trade Records.
13th january, 2009

Bernard Butler is among the nominees for the inaugural Music Producers Guild Awards as 'Producer Of The Year'. The other nominees are Brian Eno and Steve Mac. The winner of the 'Producer of the Year' Award will also receive the BRIT Award for Best Producer. Both awards will be presented at the Music Producers Guild's Awards ceremony, which will take place at London's Cafe de Paris on February 12th 2009
1st december, 2008

Sharleen Spiteri's new single 'It Was You' co-written and co-produced by Bernard Butler is released today (1 December) as a digital download.

Bernard has just finished a track for 'Florence & The Machine' and also he has been working on solo records for 'Kate Jackson' (The Long Blondes) and 'Catherine A.D.', both writing, playing and producing.

The recently released deluxe edition of Duffy's album "Rockferry" includes a second cd with 2 tracks co-written by Duffy and Bernard ('Fool For You' and 'Stop') and 4 tracks produced by Bernard ('Fool For You', 'Stop', 'Please Stay' and 'Enough Love').
The new Duffy cd-single 'Rain on Your Parade' includes as a b-side 'Syrup and Honey' co-written and produced by Bernard Butler and previously released on the 'Rockferry' album. The 7" single includes 'Smoke Without Fire', a song co-written and produced by Bernard. This song also features piano by Bernard.

18th november, 2008

Bernard has just finished producing recording and mixing Findlay Brown's album 'Love Will Find You' to be released next year.
14th october, 2008

Tricky's new single, a cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Slow' co-produced by Bernard Butler is out on October 20th through Domino Records.
6th october, 2008

'Cut Off You Hands' debut album 'You And I' produced by Bernard Butler is on sale now in New Zealand and Australia and very soon in the rest of the world.
16th september, 2008

Bernard Butler has been finished producing 2 songs for a band called 'The Males'

Duffy's track 'Enough Love' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on 29 september on the "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People" original soundtrack

Bernard Butler has co-written & produced the song 'Those Proverbs Were Made In Winter' for the forthcoming album by 'Duke Special' 'I Never Thought This Day Would Come' which will be out on October 17th.

8th september, 2008

'Black Kids' new single "Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)" produced by Bernard Butler was released last monday (september 8).
Click here to watch Black Kids "Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)" video.

'Frame Me', a song co-written by her and Bernard Butler is included as a b-side on the new Duffy's single 'Stepping Stone'.
7th july, 2008

'Sharleen Spiteri's' new single 'All The Times I Cried' mixed by Bernard Butler is out now and the single includes the b-side 'When Did You Leave Heaven' which was co-written and co-produced by Bernard.
Sharleen's debut album 'Melody' (out on july 14th) includes the song 'It Was You' which was also co-written and co-produced by Bernard and features him on guitar and piano.

3rd july, 2008

'Cut Off You Hands' new single 'Expectations' produced by Bernard Butler is set to be released on july 21st. The album 'You And I' will be released later on the year.
Click here to watch the 'Expectations' video.

'Cajun Dance Party' are releasing their new single ‘Colourful Life' produced by Bernard Butler on july 21st too. Click here to watch the video.

26th june, 2008

Tricky's new single co-written and co-produced by Bernard Butler is out next monday June 30th through Domino Records. Click here to watch the video.

Tricky's new album 'Knowle West Boy' with guitars, instrumentation, 12 tracks co-produced and 10 tracks co-written by Bernard will be released on July 7th.

Bernard appeared at a 'Black Kids' show at ULU, London on june 18th playing guitar on 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You'.
Click here to watch a YouTube video of the performance

17th june, 2008

Bernard has been working on 'Duke Special' forthcoming album which will be out around christmas.

Bernard along with other artists has provided a piece of artwork for 'Edwyn Collins' forthcoming single 'Home Again'.
3rd june, 2008

Bernard has just finished the production and mixing of 'Cut Off Your Hands' debut album called 'You And I' which will be released later on the year.

Bernard is now producing '1990s' second album.

27th may, 2008

Bernard Butler is working with 'Duffy' again on a cover version of a song called 'Please Stay' for a film about the pioneering English producer and songwriter Joe Meek called 'Telstar'.
9th may, 2008

'Black Kids' new single 'Hurricane Jane' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on June 23rd. It also has been confirmed that their debut album 'Partie Traumatic' produced by Bernard Butler too will be released on july 7th.

Click here to watch Black Kids "Hurricane Jane" video.
2nd may, 2008

'Sons & Daughters' new single 'This Gift' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on May 19th through Domino Records. Click here to watch the video.
30th april, 2008

'Sharleen Spiteri's' debut album called 'Melody' will be released on July 14th and the opening track 'It Was You' has been co-written and co-produced by Bernard Butler.

23rd april, 2008

'Warwick Avenue', the new 'Duffy' single featuring guitar by Bernard Butler will be released on 26th May. Click here to watch the video.

B-side 'Put In Perspective' is co-written and produced by Bernard.

4th march, 2008

'Cajun Dance Party' are set to release their debut album ‘The Colourful Life' produced by Bernard Butler on 28th April 2008 on XL Recordings.
‘The Race', the 3rd single from the album will be release one week earlier, on 21st April. Click here to watch the video.

3rd march, 2008

'Black Kids' debut single 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With Youl' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on april 7th. Bernard is producing their forthcoming album too.
Click here to watch the video.

18th february, 2008

'Cut Off You Hands' new single 'Oh Girl' produced by Bernard Butler has been released today. Bernard is producing their forthcoming album too.
Click here to watch the video.

7th february, 2008

Bernard has revealed on his official forum he's been writing and recording with Sharleen Spiteri (Texas) last week and he's going to enter the studio again with 'Cut Off Your Hands' next week.

22nd january, 2008

A live recording of 'Rockferry' featuring Duffy and Bernard played at the Later show in november will be released on january 28th on a doble cd called 'The very best of later... with Jools Holland'.

15th january, 2008

Duffy's debut album 'Rockferry' will be released on March 3rd.
Bernard Butler has co-written, produced and played 4 songs for the album: 'Rockferry', 'Serious', 'Syrup and Honey' and 'Distant Dreamer'. He also played guitar on the tracks 'Warwick Avenue', 'Delayed Devotion' and 'Hanging On Too Long'.

7th january, 2008

'The Cribs' next single 'I'm a realist' will be released on february 25th and will include a cover of a song by The Replacements called 'Bastards Of Young' produced by Bernard Butler.

2nd january, 2008

Bernard has been lately recording and producing a US band called 'Black Kids' at West Heath Studios in London.

19th december, 2007

Bernard made a surprise guest appearance on 'The Magic Numbers' show at the Royal Festival Hall on december 5th playing guitar on 'Love is a game'.
Click here to watch a YouTube video of the performance

4th december, 2007

'Sons & Daughters' new single 'Darling' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on 14th january and the full album, produced by Bernard too, will be in the shops on 28th january. Click here to watch the 'Darling' video.

23rd november, 2007

Two weeks ago Bernard recorded 'Rockferry' with Duffy for the 'Later with Jools Holland Show' and it's available to watch now.
Click here to watch the video.
3rd november, 2007

Finally Duffy's debut single 'Rockferry' produced and co-written by Bernard Butler will be available to download from November 19th and released as a 2-track 7" vinyl December 3rd on A&M Records

Click here to watch the video.

BBC Radio 1 Jo Whiley has made 'Rockferry' single of the week.

25th september, 2007

There's a video on Youtube of 'Duffy' and Bernard recording a song called 'Syrup & Honey' at Edwyn Collins' West Heath Studios. Bernard has been co-writing and producing Duffy's debut album but there's no release date yet.

18th september, 2007

The cover of the Libertines 'Don't Look Back Into The Sun' by 'The View' produced by Bernard Butler for the Radio 1 40th anniversary compilation 'Radio 1. Established 1967' will be released on 1st October. The song was aired for the first time yesterday at the Scott Mills Show.

12th september, 2007

'Sons And Daughters' new single called 'Gilt Complex' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on 29th October through Domino Records.

14th august, 2007

'Cajun Dance Party' new single called 'Amylase' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on august 27th. Bernard is now working with the band producing their album which will be released later in the year.

Noel Hogan & Richard Walter's project 'Mono Band' is now renamed as 'Arkitekt' and their ep called 'Black Hair' co-produced and mixed by Bernard Butler will be released on 29th October.

18th july, 2007

'Cut Off Your Hands' EP called 'Blue On Blue' produced by Bernard Butler was released on july 7th in New Zealand and Australia.
Here's the video from the main track 'Still Fond'.

10th july, 2007

After the 2 gigs scheduled with Bert Jansch and Beth Orton at the Manchester International Festival on July 13th and at the Somerset House in London on the 14th Bernard will be recording with The View a cover of "don't look back into the sun" by the libertines for a radio 1 compilation and later will be working with Cajun Dance Party.
12th may, 2007

Bernard was working last week with New Zealand band 'Cut Off Your Hands!' recording songs for an ep called 'blue on blue' which will be released this summer .

1st may, 2007

Bernard will be playing with Bert Jansch and Beth Orton at Somerset House in London on 14th july.

20th april, 2007

'Cookies', the 1990s debut album produced by Bernard Butler will be released on 14th may through rough trade records.

2nd april, 2007

Bernard will be playing with Bert Jansch and Beth Orton at the Manchester International Festival on July 13th.

14th february, 2007

1990s next single 'See You At The Lights' produced by Bernard Butler will be released on 16th April through Rough Trade Records.
update: click here to watch the video

17th january, 2007

''It's Just Love', the single from swedish artist 'Sofia Talvik' featuring Bernard Butler on vocals is now available for download on the shop at Sofia's web site.

Update: Bernard states at his official forum that "an mp3 demo which it was mutually agreed would not be used has been released without my consent or any legal release permission ....there has been no response from sofia talvik about this..... i have no doubt that the karma police will catch up with this one if my lawyer doesnt get there first."

11th january, 2007

There's a 1 minute preview of Bernard's duet with swedish singer Sofia Talvik at her website (check out the player on the right). The song, 'It's Just Love', apparently will appear at Sofia's forthcoming album 'Street of Dreams' due to be released by the end of january

3rd january, 2007

Bernard's message on his official forum.

"best wishes and thanks for hanging around here last year and supporting the music .... this year i am looking forward to finishing the Tricky album which i think is going to be great. Tomorrow im off to rehearse with Cajun Dance Party with whom i should be doing some recording soon, and next week i go up to Glasgow to start work with Sons & Daughters....also hoping to lig on to 1990s who play at the mean fiddler in london this saturday and i might even try and ambush Bert Jansch's show at the roundhouse on the 12th....thats about the plan for now"

15th november, 2006

Bernard has confirmed on his official forum he's working on the next Tricky album.

1990s single 'You're Supposed To Be My Friend' produced by Bernard will be released on november 20th through Rough Trade Records. The whole album produced by Bernard will be released early next year.
The Mescalitas single 'Breathe Deeper' also produced by Bernard will be released on december 4th through Rough Trade Records.

Videos for both songs can be seen on YouTube:
1990's: You're Supposed To Be My Friend
The Mescalitas: Breathe Deeper

11th september, 2006

Bernard has been working last week producing 'Breathe Deeper', the first single of a band called 'The Mescalitas' for Rough Trade to be released on November. He's still working on the '1990s' debut album and also producing another 'The On-Off's' single. Work with 'Duffy' is still on progress.

2nd august, 2006

Bernard has announced on his website he's started to work again in the studio with 1990s to produce their debut album. Bernard already produced a new version of 1990's song called "You're Supposed to Be My Friend" which is going to be the next single of this band.
13th june, 2006

Bernard has announced on his website he's in the studio producing a scottish band called 1990s for Rough Trade Records. He's also still working with 'Duffy', 'Richard Walters' album and also with Noel Hogan's (The Cranberries) project called 'Monoband' where Richard Walters is the singer too. Nathan Fisher and Mako Sakamoto from The Tears are also playing on this project.

Probably Bernard will be producing another 'The On-Offs' single for this summer.
27th april, 2006

'Back Down', the song Bernard wrote for Chrissy Hynde back in 1998 is finally released on the disc 4 of the new 'Pretenders' box set called 'Pirate Radio'.
Bernard also co-produced and played acoustic guitar on this song.

april 2006

Bernard produced the last 'The Cribs' single 'You're Gonna Lose Us' released on December through Wichita Recordings.

He also has been working in the studio producing and playing with a welsh singer called 'Duffy'. A demo of a song called 'Rockferry' was aired on the BBC last December.

Another Bernard production features an Oxford singer/songwriter called 'Richard Walters'. You can hear Bernard's work with Richard on a demo called 'Matress Fire' at Richard Walter's MySpace site.

Bernard has been working these days with a new band called 'The On-Off's' producing their forthcoming single 'Wrong Upstairs' which will be released in June.