Grant Showbiz
Biography
Grant Showbiz (real name Grant Cunliffe) is a British record producer principally known for his work with the Fall, the Smiths, and Billy Bragg plus as an artist in his own right with Moodswings. He has worked on more albums by both the Fall (15) and Billy Bragg (14) than any other producer, and continues to work with Bragg. Showbiz has been awarded Gold Records for the Smiths' Rank, Billy Bragg's Don't Try This At Home and the Wilco/Bragg collaboration Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1, and received Grammy nominations for both Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Queen Is Dead
1986
The Smiths
1984
Rank
1988
Mermaid Avenue
1998
Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
1986
The Sound Of The Smiths
2008
Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy
1983
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
2000
Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
1984
Workers Playtime
1988
Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014
2014
The Internationale
1990
Grotesque (After The Gramme)
1980
Don't Try This At Home
1991
Girlfriend In A Coma
1987
Dragnet
1979
What You See... Is What You Are
1978
Mermaid Avenue Vol. III
2013
Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
1988
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
1987
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
1985
Slates
1981
Live At St. Helens Technical College, 1981
2021
The Queen Is Dead
2017
Credited work
955 releases · 165 albums · active 1978–2025
- Production · 1,273
- Engineering · 255
- Performance · 227
- Other credits · 56
- Mastering · 4
Studios: The National Ballroom, Kilburn · Cathouse Studios · Cargo Studios · Totally Wired Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Billy Bragg
- Various
- The Fall
- The Smiths
- Moodswings
- Alternative TV
- Frank Chickens
- The Good Missionaries