Abbey Road Welcomes First-Ever Producer in Residence

Grammy Award victor Kid Harpoon has been announced arsenic Abbey Road Studio’s first-ever shaper successful residence (Oct. 9).

The songwriter and producer, calved Thomas Hull, volition person implicit entree to Abbey Road arsenic his originative playground and workplace location successful the U.K., arsenic good arsenic its postulation of vintage gear, microphones and instruments, and cutting-edge tech including euphony accumulation bundle Audiomovers. He volition besides consult connected the studios’ euphony tech and innovation work.

Kid Harpoon’s songwriting and accumulation vocation has included roles connected critically acclaimed and commercially palmy records. In 2023, Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, which featured Hull successful an enforcement shaper role, won the medium of the twelvemonth prize astatine the Grammys; a twelvemonth aboriginal successful 2024, Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” which helium besides produced, scooped the grounds of the twelvemonth award. Elsewhere passim his vocation helium has contributed to euphony released by Shawn Mendes, Lizzo, Maggie Rogers, Florence + The Machine and, astir recently, David Byrne.

“I’m beyond excited to go Producer successful Residence astatine Abbey Road,” Hull said successful a statement. “In this position, I’m hoping to usage my acquisition to assistance usher immoderate of the unthinkable up-and-coming endowment we person successful the UK portion they navigate their mode done what tin beryllium a hard industry. Mark [Robertson, manager of selling & creative] and the squad person a existent tendency to springiness backmost and make caller talent, which is thing I’m truly passionate about. To beryllium capable to lend to the Abbey Road bequest successful immoderate mode is an honour, and I can’t hold to get stuck in!”

Kid Harpoon is the latest nonmigratory of the iconic London signaling studios, and joins creator successful residence Jordan Rakei who has been successful the relation for 18 months. He volition besides lend to the studios’ escaped acquisition programs, including Abbey Road Amplify, which is expanding to Manchester for the archetypal clip for a bid of panels and workplace workshops astatine Aviva Studios and the new adidas / Abbey Road workplace successful the Co-op Live arena (Nov. 18-21), arsenic good arsenic the London variation astatine the Abbey Road basal (Nov. 5-8).

Speaking to Billboard U.K. managing manager Sally Davies discussed her ambition to “turbo-charge” the adjacent decennary for the studios, which has hosted sessions by The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Oasis. “The euphony we marque present is world-moving. It travels each implicit and makes radical happy, and we should beryllium shouting astir that,” Davies said. “One of my main focuses is to stock the breadth of what we do, and the level of ambition and innovation.”