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Kid Harpoon gets triple win at MPG Awards
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 2 May 2023
The UK’s Music Producers Guild presented its annual awards last week, with Kid Harpoon scoring a triple win. As well as being declared Producer Of The Year and Writer-Producer Of The Year, he shared the Album Of The Year prize with Oli Jacobs and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent for the Harry Styles album ‘Harry’s House’.
Commenting on the winners, MPG Executive Director Eve Horne said: “It’s fantastic to see so many deserved winners! Every year we are blown away with the sheer talent that each of the nominees and winners display. It’s great to see such diversity again this year too. Testament that the MPG and the industry as a whole is going in the right direction”.
In addition to the awards celebrating music produced in the last year, the MPG also presented an Inspiration Award to Ric Flow, an Icon Award to Bob Clearmountain, and an Outstanding Contribution To UK Music prize to Fraser T Smith.
The latter used the occasion to formally launch his Future Producer Academy, which aims to boost the careers of emerging producers from under-represented backgrounds, with support from the MPG and collecting society PPL.
Here is the full list of winners…
Producer Of The Year: Kid Harpoon
Writer-Producer Of The Year: Kid Harpoon
Breakthrough Producer Of The Year: Adam ‘Cecil’ Bartlett Vocal
Producer Of The Year: Ramera Abraham
Self-Producing Artist: Hannah Peel
Rising Star: Francine Perry
Unsung Hero: Carla Harding
Recording Engineer Of The Year: Oli Jacobs
Mix Engineer Of The Year: Craig Silvey
Mastering Engineer Of The Year: Cicely Balston
Studio Of The Year: RAK Studios
Album Of The Year: Kid Harpoon, Oli Jacobs and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent for ‘Harry’s House’ by Harry Styles
Original Score Recording Of The Year: Hannah Peel, Michael Keeney and James Trevascus for ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’
Atmos Mix Of The Year: Dave Emery for the Atmos mix of ‘Want Want’ by Maggie Rogers
The MPG Inspiration Award: Ric Flow
The MPG Icon Award: Bob Clearmountain
The MPG Award For Outstanding Contribution To UK Music: Fraser T Smith
