Owen Morris

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

Owen Morris is a music producer who has worked with rock bands such as Oasis 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 started producing some work for Oasis at the end of the Definitely Maybe sessions. 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), Ash's 1977 (1996) and the debut UK album, For God's Sake for Thai rock star Sek Loso. 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 U.K. Album Charts.^[1]

Warrington based Rock band, Exile Parade are currently in the middle of recording their debut album with producer Owen Morris which is due to released in 2008. (Aug.07)

He is famed for pioneering an engineering technique called "Brick Walling" on Definitely Maybe. This involves turning all the instruments on the album up to full volume, making the songs especially loud. The effect made Definitely Maybe louder than other albums at the time.

Owen has recently been in Chapel Studios in Lincoln recording a new single with popular Leicester band The Displacements. During the session they pioneered a new recording technique known as the 'Vibe Track'. The band and the producer made a pact that the secret behind the technique will go to the grave with them.