Adrian Utley’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British guitarist
Is Musician 
Guitarist 
Record producer 
Composer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Business 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 27 April 1957, Northampton
Age: 63 years

Adrian Francis Utley (born 28 April 1957) is an English musician and producer, and a member of the band Portishead.

Career

Born in Northampton, Utley moved to Bristol in the mid 1980, and heavily into jazz, played guitar with Big John Patton’s touring band and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He built up a collection of vintage instruments and studio equipment, and moved into production and film work.

Portishead formed in 1990 with the first album Dummy released in 1994 followed by Portishead in 1997. Third was released in April 2008. During Portishead’s hiatus between the second and third albums, Utley’s production work included Beth Gibbons and Rustin’ Man’s Out of Season and he worked with fellow Portishead member Geoff Barrow as the Jimi Entley Sound and Fuzzface.

During his career, Utley has recorded with artists as diverse as Marilyn Manson, Jeff Beck, Torres, and Marianne Faithfull, and his film work includes Sound by Nic Roeg and Spiders from Mars with David Attenborough.

In 2009 he was part of the jazz collective Stonephace, releasing a self-titled album. In 2010 he composed a new soundtrack for silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc with Will Gregory (of Goldfrapp), performed by a 23 piece orchestra conducted by Charles Hazlewood. In 2012 he was commissioned by the National Trust to produce “Sonic Journey”, a piece of music inspired by walking among the trees at Croft Castle. In 2013 he performed Terry Riley’s “In C” with an ensemble including a bass clarinet, four organs (played by Hazlewood), and 19 guitars (including John Parish), the performance released on CD later that year.

Work oustide Portishead

  • Warminster (1999), Ochre – with Mount Vernon Arts Lab
  • Stonephace (2009), Tru Thoughts – with Stonephace
  • In C (2013), Invada – Adrian Utley’s Guitar Orchestra
  • The Vapourer (2013), Real World – with Spiro
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