N-Dubz... Round 2

So... I am finally back from a 5 week stint in London working for NDubz. These are the same band I originally blogged about in January who went Platinum. Well to date that first album has sold just over 500,000 copies... pretty impressive for a debut album.

Anyway, the guys had said after the first album that they wanted to work with me again. So on September 20th I flew back to London to work again with them on their second album. This album is now a major release for Universal/ATTW (UK) and so the pressure was on. The last year N-Dubz had been huge with a No. 1 single and TV, press, and radio coverage. As well as winning two MOBO Awards for Best UK Album and Best UK Act.

I was originally meant to go for 2 weeks to mix the album, but when I got there they still hadn't finished recording and producing some of the songs. So I was also asked to help record some tracks and vocal produce the big ballad track.

Anyway below are some pics and video from the sessions... The album "Against All Odds" is released on November 16th. I mixed 12 tracks on the album in a great studio called The Chairworks in Leeds, UK.

On the first night in Leeds, they had a gig at Leeds University, there were over 2,000 people going crazy at the gig. Thank god I was on the balcony.

One of the UK's biggest gossip magazines (Heat) come up to the studio to do a photoshoot. At the end of the shoot I managed to persuade the photographer to take a couple of photos with me and N-Dubz (L-R Fazer, Me, Tulisa, Dappy)

A cool pic from the photshoot!

Deep in mix talk with Dappy

Discussing one the tracks with Dappy, their assistant manager, and the producer of the track (in the chair)

Here is a quick video from my iPhone (sorry bout the bad quality) of the great studio I was working in. The 2 guys in the video were my studio assistants Tom and James. If you wanna see a proper studio then make sure you watch!!!

So I have high hopes for this album, and so do the band. I definitely think it will go number one in the UK, and hoepfully will go double or even triple platinum (900,000). I will keep you posted, and any of you in Europe or North America.... grab a copy!! I am pretty sure you will enjoy the album