Clive Painter


Clive Painter is a musician, record producer and mastering engineer based in London.
Since the mid-1990s, Painter has been known primarily as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in both Broken Dog and Tram, and he is currently active as a guitarist in The 99 Call and The Real Tuesday Weld. In 2001, he released an instrumental album Rocket Science on the Showstorm label under the name of Wolf. Described in the press as similar in style to an Ennio Morricone score and compared to Sigur Rós and Godspeed You Black Emperor.

History

The first commercial release featuring Clive Painter was a 12" single called "Falling" by a duo he formed in 1990 with Joanne Taylor called Isadora Beech. The single was released in 1991 on the Cherry Red subsidiary label MFF.
In 1994 Clive Painter formed the cult band Broken Dog with Martine Roberts and the following year they were signed to Big Cat Records and released their first album in 1996. John Peel became a fan of Broken Dog and over the next eight years they were invited by him to record four peel sessions and made numerous other appearances on his Radio 1 show. Broken Dog have release five albums and a handful of singles/EPs.
In 1997 Clive Painter began working on the production of the first Tram singles and their debut album Heavy Black Frame. On which he played guitar, bass, harmonium, percussion and clarinet. He co-produced the album with the guitarist and singer Paul Anderson and played live with Tram until 1999.
He also appears on Tram's first session for John Peel recorded in 1998. In 2009 Clive Painter and Paul Anderson formed a new band called The 99 Call.
At the same time as working on Heavy Black Frame Clive Painter was working on recordings by Monograph which were released on Shinkansen Recordings.
He also produced several singles for the London-based Piao! Label by artists such as Girlfrendo and Miss Mend.
Since 2003 he has been a member of The Real Tuesday Weld live band having previously been associated with the group as a Mastering Engineer and occasional Producer/Collaborator.
He appears as a Guitarist on a few albums by the group but most notably Co-Produced the 2005 re-scoring of Hans Richter's 1947 surrealist film Dreams That Money Can Buy for DVD release through the British Film Institute on which he is also credited with Composition and Performance. Live soundtrack performances of this film have taken place at the BFI Southbank, The Tate Modern, The Moscow Film Festival and The Belfast Film Festival.
Clive Painter has been credited as a Mastering Engineer for numerous independent record labels since 1999 and as such has worked with a variety of artists such as Part Chimp, Chris TT, Ivor Cutler and Comes with a Smile magazine.
In 2005 Clive Painter began producing radio shows for Resonance FM, an arts based radio station in London. The first of these was a programme called Home is Other People.
Followed in 2008 by a programme called Tock Tick.
He is also more recently known as a Film Maker, Cinematographer and Film Editor.

Discography

;Performance Credits
;Production/Mix Credits