Name: Mike Lindup and Hugh Padgham
Start: 2025-01-21T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-21T22:30:00+00:00
Location: The Walrus

INTERVIEWS WITH MIKE LINDUP AND HUGH PADGHAM (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)
Doors 18:45, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At The Tusk Club, at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD / Book at www.the-space.uk
MIKE LINDUP
Mike Lindup is a highly renowned musician, best known as the keyboard-player, as well as a songwriter, in Level 42, which he co-founded 45 years-ago, in late 1979. The band's sound can be described as a mixture of jazz funk with pop and Mike has frequently provided falsetto vocals for harmonies and choruses. They had nine top 40 studio albums and twenty hit singles, such as Lessons in Love, Something About You, The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) and Running in the Family. Released in 1986, Lessons in Love was their biggest single, a hit worldwide, reaching number one in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. An acclaimed live act, Level 42 still perform all over the world.
Mike started composing aged 3 and took piano lessons from the age of 6, later singing in various choirs, before graduatng at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1989, while Level 42 took a year off, he recorded his first solo album, Changes, whch was released in 1990. 30 years-ago, he began to diversify, exploring different musical styles, including working with the bands Negrocan and Da Lata. Mike continued with his own solo material, releasing more albums, and rejoined Level 42 in 2006.
HUGH PADGHAM
Hugh Padgham is one of the UK's most renowned record producers. He has played a part in the making of many of the eighties' biggest albums and singles, including for artists such as Phil Collins, Genesis, The Police and Sting, as well as David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. He produced five of Collins' albums and many of his singles, including In the Air Tonight and Sussudio. For The Police, the classics Every Breath You Take, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic and Sting's Fields of Gold. Hugh produced much of Genesis' music, including the huge album Invisible Touch and earlier songs such as Mama and That's All. David Bowie's 1984 album, Tonight, which features Blue Jean and Loving the Alien, he also was the producer of.
His career has also included production on output from XTC, such as for Senses Working Overtime, Human League, including Louise, Paul McCartney, producing his 1986 album, Press to Play, engineering Peter Gabriel's third album, as well as co-engineering Kate Bush's The Dreaming. Hugh later worked with McFly, producing four number one singles for the band.