IMRO Interview/Production Seminar with Jake Gosling
IMRO Interview and Production | Songwriting Workshop With Internationally Acclaimed Songwriter | Producer Jake Gosling
Date: Friday 19th October
Venue: IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Interviewer: Paddy McKenna RTÉ 2FM
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Jake Gosling is a multi-platinum selling Music Producer/Songwriter/Remixer/Manager and Publisher best known for his work with artists such as Wiley, Paloma Faith and Ed Sheeran with whom he produced and co-wrote the 4 times platinum No. 1 album “+” along with the No. 3 hit and platinum selling “The A Team”. Gosling worked on the gold selling No. 2 album “Fall to Grace” for Paloma Faith. Gosling runs his own studio, Sticky Studios, in Surrey along with his publishing company, The Movement. Gosling has also produced official remixes for Keane, Lady Gaga, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson and The Far East Movement amongst others under the pseudonym Sketch Iz Dead. Gosling runs Sticky Management alongside Adam Coltman, a management company which has the artist at the centre of its ethos.
Gosling achieved mainstream success with UK rapper Wiley, producing his 2008 album “See Clear Now” featuring tracks “Summertime” and “Cash In My Pocket” which he worked on with Mark Ronson. This peaked at No. 18 in the UK and grabbed much acclaim for both the careers of Wiley and Gosling. This brought him a lot of respect for his production skills and helped kickstart his career. He then worked with Southern Fry Records and produced/co-produced/co-wrote some tracks on the album “Tons of Friends”. He also performed vocals alongside Pitbull and Kardinal Offishall on tracks “Natural Born Hustler” and “Put Your Hands on Me”.
Gosling’s association with Ed Sheeran started early in both of their careers and they formed a formidable writing partnership which started with the “Loose Change” EP followed by ‘Songs I Wrote With Amy’ and then “No. 5 Collaborations Project” which is thought to be the breakthrough EP in Sheeran’s career which resulted in his record deal with Asylum/Atlantic Records. Gosling was influential in both its birth and creation producing all of the tracks which featured rappers Wiley, Devlin, Sway DaSafo, Mikill Pane, JME, Ghetts, P Money, Dot Rotten and Wretch 32.
The major breakthrough which brought Gosling huge mainstream success was the debut album “+” by Ed Sheeran. Gosling co-wrote seven tracks on the album, producing the whole of the album, with one track produced by No I.D. It debuted at the top of the album charts with first week sales of 102,000 copies coming off the back of the singles “The A Team” and “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You”. The former peaked at No. 3 in the UK Singles chart with the latter also achieving success with a peak position of No. 4. “Lego House” was also a hit for both Gosling and Ed Sheeran with the writing pair achieving commercial success achieving platinum status in the UK selling over 600,000 singles and reaching No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
By the end of 2011, the album had been certified 3x platinum indicating sales of over 900,000 copies. By July 2012 the album had been certified 4x platinum indicating sales of over 1,200,000 records sold in the UK. The album also received acclaim globally with it peaking No. 3 in the Australian Albums Chart, No. 2 in New Zealand and No. 5 in the US Billboard 200 which saw Sheeran being the highest charting male solo artist for 6 years. This success has been credited to both the talents of Ed Sheeran and the partnership he has struck up with Gosling which has enhanced the profile of both individuals.
In May 2012, Gosling achieved success with female solo artist Paloma Faith and her gold selling album “Fall to Grace” which reached No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart. Gosling collaborated with long time friend and work colleague Nellee Hooper who is of Massive Attack fame and also produced world-wide stars such as U2 and Madonna.
The album’s lead single was “Picking Up The Pieces” which peaked at No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart and was co-produced by Gosling with the follow up single “30 Minute Love Affair” also having Gosling’s co-production credits. The album has become Faith’s highest chart position to date adding another top 3 album to Gosling’s collection following “+” album earlier in the year.
Gosling has many current projects that he is working on with one finished product with Ed Sheeran and Shady Records artist Yelawolf with the collaboration resulting in “The Slumdon Bridge EP”. This has been highly acclaimed both sides of the Atlantic with it being one of the catalysts for Sheeran’s success in the USA.
Gosling is continuing to work with new up and coming artists including Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt who has recently signed to Universal Music Group. He produced ‘The Apple Tree EP’ and co-wrote the lead single “The Apple Tree” receiving support from the likes of Radio 1 and reached No. 6 on the iTunes download chart before getting signed. Gosling is also recording her debut album which will be released under Universal Music Group.
Gosling is also managing UK artist Mikill Pane alongside Adam Coltman and is also producing/co-writing his up and coming debut album “Blame Miss Barclay”. Jake also worked with Irish group and IMRO members, The Original Rudeboys after seeing them perform at the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival 2012 and teamed up with them to produce and co-write their album “This Life” which reached No. 1 in the Independent Irish Album Chart.
Gosling has received credits on other albums, such as One Direction’s multi-platinum selling “Up All Night” with the track “Moments” that Jake produced and was written by Ed Sheeran.This has led to a strong working relationship and work on their next album is lined up. Other artists that Gosling has been involved with include the Australian rapper 360, James Jay Picton and French band Singtank.
