Mike Batt Tour

Mike Batt was born at the 6th of February 1949 in Southampton. Before he left school, he played in several school-bands like 'Phase 4',an unknown Southampton group (1965), they did a few weddings at empty youth clubs but never recorded anything - in contrast to 'Phase 4' from Newcastle, round about the vocalist & guitarist Norman Nossiter on vocals, piano and organ cover-versions from 'The 'Beatles', 'Rolling Stones' or 'Kinks'.

With his first earned money - as a singer by the duo 'That Lady's Twins', as an organ-player in a strip-club and with several advertising jingles for the likes of Guinness and Smarties - he financed his first trips from Southampton to London, where he tried to offer his first composed songs to music- and record-companies. Accidentally he found a newspaper advertisement from 'Liberty Records', searching for a literary hack - and he got the job. One year later, at the age of 19, he was the Artist & Repertoire Manager at Liberty-Records and published his first singles.

His recent solo album, “A Songwriter’s Tale” achieved the number 24 position in the UK album charts in 2008.

Mike Batt will be performing in UK this year. He will perform on Mon, May 24, 2010 at Cadogan Hall, London,United Kingdom.


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Mike Batt current work

A Conservative Party supporter, Batt was asked to write the 2001 UK General Election song "Heartland", thereby replacing Andrew Lloyd Webber as the Conservative's official composer.

After conceiving and co-creating the all-girl string quartet bond and producing their first single, he then created the eight piece classical crossover band, The Planets. Their album Classical Graffiti was released in February 2002 and went straight to number one on the UK classical music chart on the day of release and remained there for three months. Batt was sued for copyright infringement over the track "A One Minute Silence", which consisted of one minute of silence and was credited to 'Batt/Cage'.
The publishers of John Cage's music alleged that the credit invoked Cage's silent piece 4′33″, and that the trust was entitled to receive royalties. An out of court settlement was reached, with Batt paying a six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust.

Batt formed his own record label Dramatico in 2002, which has a small group of artists including Carla Bruni. Dramatico has since 2005, been one of the top three UK based indie labels, based on official sales figures. Batt is presently dedicating most of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua, whom he discovered in 2002 while scouting for a jazz musical project he was working on. Melua's album Call Off The Search containing six of Batt's songs including "The Closest Thing to Crazy" was released on Dramatico in November 2003. After six weeks at number one in the UK Albums Chart, it sold six times platinum over 1.8 million copies - in the UK and three million copies in total, making Melua the biggest selling UK female artist of 2004. Her second album, Piece by Piece including Batt's song "Nine Million Bicycles" was released in September 2005, and to date has sold 3.5 million copies in Europe, going to number 1 in the UK, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and going top five in eight other countries.

In 2008, Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio concert tour in Germany, to promote his new CD, A Songwriter's Tale - a compilation album of his hits, some sung by himself and most of them newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Spinetti, Ray Cooper, Chris Spedding, Mitch Dalton and Tim Harries.

His band toured with Spinetti (drums), Spedding (guitar), Harries (bass), Frank Gallagher (keyboards and violins), Luis Jardim (percussion) and Florence Rawlings (vocals and background vocals). After she completed her education, Batt signed Rawlings to Dramatico. He produced her album, A Fool In Love, and wrote six of the twelve songs on it "The Only Woman In The World", "Jump On The Wagon", "Wolf Man", "Hard To Get", "Can't Hold Your Hand", and "Love Can Be A Battlefield".



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Mike Batt - Early Life and Career

Mike Batt attended Peter Symonds School, which later became Peter Symonds College, Winchester. His blog on his official website refers to his role as cadet Company Sergeant Major at the school.

Batt began his career in pop music at the age of eighteen when he answered the same advertisement as Elton John and Bernie Taupin placed by Ray Williams in the New Musical Express by Liberty Records. Batt became part of Liberty's production team, and in 1969 he took over production duties from Noel Walker, on McKenna Mendelson Mainline's first release, Stink. Walker and Batt were credited on the album only as "Liberty Staff". Also in 1969, Batt released as producer/artist a Liberty single, his cover version of The Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know". Batt subsequently became Head of A&R for Liberty.
1970s.

In the early 1970s, aged 23, married, with children, and having spent £11,000 recording half of a rock orchestral album that was never released, Batt was asked by the producers of a new children's television programme to write the theme music. Instead of taking his £200 fee, Batt asked for the character rights for musical production.The choice produced his first hits as a singer/songwriter/producer by The Wombles, in 1974. The collaboration produced eight hit singles and four gold albums.

Now financially successful, Batt moved on to work with various artists as a songwriter/producer, most successfully with Steeleye Span and their most successful single and album All Around My Hat in 1975. Also in 1975, at the end of the summer, he entered the UK Singles Chart with the only hit under his own name "credited alongside the New Edition" with "Summertime City", which reached number 4.

He produced the hit single "Lilac Wine" for Elkie Brooks in 1978. The song was a hit in the UK and across Europe. He wrote the song "Bright Eyes" for the animated film version of Watership Down. Recorded by Art Garfunkel, it reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.


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Mike Batt - Introduction

Mike Batt (born 6 February 1949, Southampton) is a British based songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. Mike Batt is best known for creating The Wombles pop act, writing the chart-topping "Bright Eyes", and discovering Katie Melua. In 2008, Mike Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio concert tour in Germany, to promote his new CD, A Songwriter's Tale - a compilation album of his hits, some sung by himself and most of them newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has conducted many of the world's great orchestras including the London Symphony, The London Philharmonic, The Royal Philharmonic, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Victoria and The National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland.

He began his career in popular music at the age of eighteen, as a signed artist with and subsequently Head of A&R for Liberty/United Artists Records. Leaving to form his own music publishing company two years later, and simultaneously working as a recording artist. His first hits as a singer/songwriter/producer were by The Wombles, in 1974.

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