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Norman Blake
real name Norman George Blake
Norman Blake is credited on 203 albums across 548 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
203
Albums
548
Pressings
5
Decades active
332
In collections
Biography
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Musician, singer and songwriter born at the 20th October of 1965 in Bellshill (Scotland, UK). He was in the band Pretty Flowers which existed from 1983 till 1985. Then he joined BMX Bandits in the mid 80s, in 1989 he left the band. Between 1988 and 1989 he was also a member of the short lived band The Boy Hairdressers. In 1989 he co-founded the Glasgow (Scotland, UK) based band Teenage Fanclub in which he's still active. In 2010, he relocated to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, where he operates a home studio:
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
203 albums · 548 pressings · active 1985–2026
- Performance · 1,139
- Other credits · 57
- Mastering · 44
- Engineering · 34
- Production · 14
Studios: Riverside Studios, Glasgow · Pet Sounds Studios, Glasgow · Spaghetti Studios · Amazon Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Bandwagonesque
1991

Antisocialites
2017

Safe As Milk
1967

Will The Circle Be Unbroken
1972

Alone Together
1970

Grand Prix
1995

Thirteen
1993

Songs From Northern Britain
1997

Wild Loneliness
2022

Here
2016

More Than A New Discovery
1967

Endless Arcade
2021

Shadows
2010

Man-Made
2005

Howdy!
2000

Spirit Of The Golden Juice
1969

Present Tense
1968

Nothing Lasts Forever
2023

Misfits & Mistakes (Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2007-2023)
2023

Slow Century
2019

Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
2012

So Tough
1993

A Catholic Education
1990

Forbidden Planet
1976
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