Introduction
Tom Dalgety is an English record producer, mixer and engineer. He is most noted for his work with Pixies, Ghost and Royal Blood.
Biography
Tom Dalgety grew up in Frome, Somerset, and began his career working at Rockfield Studios, Wales.
Royal Blood's debut album, produced by Dalgety and the band, was released in August 2014. It was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize for best album. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and went on to become certified as a platinum selling record (BPI). Dalgety also worked with the band on their second album How Did We Get So Dark?, which also went straight in at the top of the UK Albums Chart.
In 2015 Dalgety won "Breakthrough Producer of the Year" at the UK's Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards.
In 2016 he was nominated for "British Producer of the Year" at the BRIT awards for his work on Royal Blood's debut self titled album.
In 2016 Dalgety produced the Popestar EP for Ghost, which went to number 1 in the Billboard Rock Album chart.
In January 2017 the single "Square Hammer" taken from the EP subsequently went to number 1 on Billboard′s Mainstream Rock Song Chart. And in February 2017 Ghost were awarded a Swedish Grammis Award with the Popestar EP winning the best Best Hard Rock/Metal album category.
Awards and nominations
- 2015 - won "Breakthrough Producer of the Year" at the Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards
- 2015 - won "Music Producer/Engineer of the Year" in the Resolution magazine Creative Awards
- 2016 - nominated for "British Producer of the Year" at the BRIT awards
Credits
Artists Dalgety has worked with include:
- Pixies
- Ghost
- Royal Blood
- Opeth
- Killing Joke
- Turbowolf
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Band of Skulls
- The Family Rain
- Siouxsie
- The Maccabees
- Simple Minds
- Therapy?
- Cat's Eyes
- Smoke Fairies
- Grave Pleasures
- Broken Hands
- Tigercub
- The Amazons
- Inheaven
- Demob Happy