?

if you're going for a live band sound, yes. but it may not come out radio friendly.

if its going to be you and guitar, i dont think steve will add much that anyone else couldnt. he is also in another country.

if you can afford him, get Jon Brion.

it'll be all lovely and swooshy.

And for free.

Only drawback is that I don't have a studio...

if you fancy being locked away, beaten and possibly shot.

might give the album an 'edgy' feel.

the production on that record is

AAAAMMMMMMAAAAZZZZZZIIIIINNNNGGGGGG

I think it's some guy with a scandinavian name. He's damn good

and has lots of equipment.
i'll let him know you're interested.

but he did the first Gemma Hayes album and that was hardly Fridmann-esque...

My band is going to record our album here : http://www.bearcreekstudio.com/ with Guy Picciotto from Fugazi. Well, hopefully.

<3 production on The Veils' Nux Vomica... and you share a manager or something don't you?

also produced Nick Cave and Grinderman!

LOL

Seriously try
Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails / Sugar)
Paul Stacey I hear is good - did a mates band recently.
John Leckie (Elastica)
if you are UK.

although having Coldplay on his CV may have dampened his credentials somewhat.

He'd be great.

if you work fast you could record with him for just a few grand, plus the cost of flying to chicago, i suppose.

seriously though, I'd like to record at John Vanderslice's studio, tiny telephone it's called. in the US, obviously, but all the stuff I've heard from there sounds ace.

By that I mean realistic if you can't afford to go crazy with it.

This studio in Cardiff
http://www.myspace.com/wingsforjesus

It's run by Kris Jenkins who works with Super Furry Animals a lot, playing percussion and I think doing some engineering on their albums too.

I think he recently recorded Cate Le Bon there, and the tracks on her myspace sound great.
http://www.myspace.com/catelebon

I've also heard that he's really really cheap, and he's a cool guy, he taught at my college briefly, he nearly failed us all, but he was still ace.

http://www.bdrak.com/sounds/studio/studio.htm

i'd highly recommend a dude called david peters. you won't have heard of him, but he learnt everything he knows from david fridmann and he's resourceful, inventive, a bit weird (in the best possible way) and can record pretty much anywhere you want if you need to save on studio costs - he brought some amazing bits of kits over from pennsylvania (where he's from) and we set up studio in a big house in acton. plus he's just ace. he's also done stuff for bishi, emit bloch, a few projects for one little indian... might be worth a look?

www.myspace.com/davidpeters

http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2354400#r2356993

you should record it yourself.

Xenomania

at the granary and use guy denning. he's lovely and very posh.