Mike Crossey

Mike Crossey photographed at Air Recording Studios in London by Mike Banks (source)

### Family

Rosie Crossey (wife)
Morgan and Niamh (children)

### Occupation

Record producer, songwriter, mixing engineer

### Instagram

mikecrossey

**Michael "Mike" Crossey** (born 1979) is a Northern Irish record producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. He produced Arctic Monkeys debut single, collaborating with them over two albums. He is known for his ongoing relationship with The 1975 in addition to productions with Jeremy Zucker, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, LANY, LAUV, Foals, Keane, Jake Bugg, The Gaslight Anthem, MUNA, Wolf Alice and YUNGBLUD. Crossey is an award-winning record producer, mix engineer, and songwriter based between Los Angeles and London.

## Career

Crossey started his career as a promoter of punk shows in Belfast before moving to Liverpool to complete his training at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He remained in Liverpool, operating out of the Motor Museum, until 2012. During that period he produced some of the most critically acclaimed British indie acts. After seeing the Arctic Monkeys perform he invited them to the studio and cut the band's first EP Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys . He contributed production on the second album including singles "Teddy Picker", "Fluorescent Adolescent" and "Brianstorm". He has since produced and mixed albums by Nothing But Thieves, Foals, Keane, Jake Bugg, Tribes, Blood Red Shoes, The Enemy, The Kooks, and Razorlight. After studying the sonic nature of BBC Radio One's transmissions, frequency and compression, Mike has developed a solid reputation of creating separate radio mixes specifically suited for the channel. He has done so for acts such as The Black Keys.

### 2012 – 2015: Mixing an album for The 1975, Twenty One Pilots, and more

Moving to London in 2012, Crossey embarked on an ambitious year. He mixed the acclaimed Ben Howard album Every Kingdom and Two Door Cinema Club's sophomore Beacon. Working with a young Nottingham songwriter Jake Bugg, Crossey produced and mixed the singer's eponymous debut album Jake Bugg, which was certified platinum in the UK. The album was a commercial and critical success – receiving a 9/10 in NME and 81/100 on metacritic. In 2012 Mike produced the Top 10 album for The View's Cheeky for a Reason and mixed The Courteeners' third album ANNA which debuted at number two.

He produced Manchester act The 1975's self-titled debut album, the American band The Gaslight Anthem's fifth album Get Hurt and the track "The Judge" off of Twenty One Pilots' fourth studio album, Blurryface.

Crossey also produced the Wolf Alice album *My Love Is Cool* in 2015 which received a 9/10 score from NME.

### 2015 – 2019: Producing an album for The 1975, Nothing But Thieves, and more

Relocating to LA in 2015, he produced The 1975's second album, entitled I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It- the album received significant critical praise upon its release in 2016. In 2017 he scored a number 2 UK album with British band Nothing But Thieves's sophomore album *Broken Machine* which he produced, mixed and contributing to writing.

He produced the third Walk the Moon album What If Nothing, including single One Foot - the highest selling alternative single of the year. In 2018 he continued his relationship with The 1975 - mixing the album while the band took over production detail. He produced LANY's acclaimed second album, Malibu Nights, as well as an album for Billy Raffoul and mixed songs for Hozier. In 2019, LAUV and LANY collaborated for *"Mean It"*. MUNA's Number One Fan - the first from the Crossey produced album. He produced 4 songs off the 2019 Half-Alive album Now, Not Yet.

### 2020 - present: Producing for YUNGBLUD, Noah Cyrus, The Killers, and more

Crossey continued to revisit productions or mixing with the likes of LANY and The 1975 on their most recent albums in 2020. He worked with YUNGBLUD, The Killers, and Jeremy Zucker. In 2021, he worked with Noah Cyrus and Jake Wesley Rogers.

## Credits

Obtained from TIDAL

* *"original me"* - lyricist
* *"waiting on the weekend"* - producer, lyricist, keyboards, programming
* *"Die A Little"* - producer, lyricist, recording engineer,
* *"Tongue Tied"* - lyricist, engineering, vocal producer
* *"Lemonade"* - producer, lyricist, keyboards, programming, recording engineer
* *"mars"* - producer, keyboards, programming
* *"superdeadfriends"* - lyricist
* *"fleabag"* - producer, mixing
* *"The Funeral"* - mixing

## Trivia

* He started playing in bands when he was 13 years old and got the audio bug very young.
* He started his own band night in a veggie punk cafe/venue in Belfast called Giros.
* He moved to Liverpool in 1998 to go to LIPA to study sound technology.
* He was the house engineer at Motor Museum from the age of 21 until he went freelance at 24 in 2003.
* He is married to Rosie Crossey, an Ayurvedic Post-Partum Doula, and shares two kids Morgan and Niamh with her. (sourced from his Instagram bio)
* The genres he works in are: Rock, indie rock, electropop, dance-pop, synth-pop.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mike Crossey — "Bio « Mike Crossey". Retrieved 12 March 2022.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Miloco — "Mike Crossey - Miloco". Published June 2011. Retrieved 12 March. Archived
3. ↑ NME — "Mike Crossey Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". Archived
4. ↑ NME — "Jake Bugg - 'Jake Bugg'". Published 12 October 2012. Written by Barry Nicolson. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Archived
5. ↑ Metacritic — "Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg". Retrieved 12 March 2022.
6. ↑ NME — "The Courteeners - 'Anna'". Published 31 January 2012. Written by Jamie Fullerton. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
7. ↑ Clash Magazine — "The 1975 - The 1975 Reviews". Published 23 August 2013. Written by Simon Butcher. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
8. ↑ The Line of Best Fit — "The 1975 - The 1975 Reviews". Published 26 August 2013. Written by Laurence Day. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
9. ↑ When the Gramophone Rings — "Album Review: The 1975 – The 1975". Published 25 August 2013. Written by Andrew Evans. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
10. ↑ ACL Music Festival — "Twenty One Pilots". Retrieved 12 March 2022. Archived
11. ↑ NME — "Wolf Alice - 'My Love Is Cool'". Published 15th June 2015. Written by Mark Beaumont. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
12. ↑ SPIN — "The 1975 Review". Retrieved 12 March 2022.
13. ↑ NME — "Nothing But Thieves Review". Published 4 May 2017. Written by Kevin EG Perry.
14. ↑ Billboard — "Walk The Moon". Published 24 August 2017. Written by Phoebe Reilly. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
15. ↑ Lauv (@lauvsongs) on YouTube — "Lauv & LANY - Mean It [Official Video]" Posted 17 December 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Archived
16. ↑ Pro Studio Masters — "Jeremy Zucker; Chelsea Cutler, brent ii (Single) in High-Resolution Audio". Retrieved 12 March 2022. Archived
17. ↑ Atwood Magazine — "Jake Wesley Rogers' Soaring "Middle of Love" Captures the Heavy Weight of Life & Love". Published 10 May 2021. Written by Mitch Mosk. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Archived
18. ↑ TIDAL — "Credits / Mike Crossey — TIDAL". Retrieved 18 March 2022.
19. ↑ Mike Crossey (@mikecrossey) on Instagram — "Mike Crossey (@mikecrossey) • Instagram photos and videos" Posted N/A. Retrieved 12 March 2022.