Jacknife Lee

Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including The Cars, U2, R.E.M., Robbie Williams, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, AFI, The Hives, Weezer, One Direction, Silversun Pickups, Editors, and Taylor Swift.

Biography

Lee started as a guitarist for the punk band Compulsion, then pursued a solo career in the field of electronica after the band's break-up. His first solo work, the EP A Dog Named Snuggles, was released under the name Jacknife Lee in 1998 by Pussyfoot Records, a label founded by Howie B.

Lee released his first album Muy rico in 1998. His second album Punk Rock High Roller was released in 2001 by Palm Pictures. To Hell With You I'll Make My Own People was recorded as Jack Planck for the One Little Indian label. Jacknife Lee released his self-titled third solo album in 2007.

Jacknife Lee has also remixed a variety of artists' work including a version of Run-DMC's "It's Tricky 2003", The Future Sound of London's "The Mello Hippo Disco Show" and versions of U2's "Vertigo" which was limited released onto 7", 10" and 12" vinyl, Christina Aguilera, TLC, Pink, Blur, Radiohead, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, The Raveonettes, Kraftwerk, New Order, and Kasabian. In 2008 he produced R.E.M.'s Accelerate, Bloc Party's Intimacy, Two Door Cinema Club and Crystal Castles. In 2010 he produced R.E.M.'s last album Collapse into Now, released in 2011.

Works produced, mixed or written

• Two Door Cinema Club – Gameshow (2016)
• Twin Atlantic – GLA (2016)
• Bat for Lashes – The Bride (2016)
• Jake Bugg – On My One (2016)
• Raury – All We Need (2015)
• Yacht – I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler (2015)
• Silversun Pickups – Better Nature (2015)
• Raury – Devil's Whisper (2015)
• Saint Raymond – Young Blood (2015)
• Elle King – Love Stuff (2015)
• Kodaline – Coming Up for Air (2015)
• Conway – Shut Up (2014)
• Neil Diamond – Melody Road (2014)
• Vacationer – The Wild Life (2014)
• Saint Raymond – I Want You (2014)
• Snow Patrol – Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014)
• Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (2014)
• Silversun Pickups – Cannibal (2014)
• Silversun Pickups – Let It Decay (2013)
• One Direction – Something Great (2013)
• Bonnie McKee – American Girl (2013)
• Lissie – Back to Forever (2013)
• Tired Pony – The Ghost of the Mountain (2013)
• Snow Patrol – Greatest Hits (2013)
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (2012)
• Taylor Swift – Red (2012)
• Robbie Williams – Take the Crown (2012)
• Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon (2012)
• Silversun Pickups – Neck of the Woods (2012)
• LostAlone – I'm a UFO in This City (2012)
• R.E.M. – Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 (2011)
• Snow Patrol – Fallen Empires (2011)
• The Drums – Portamento (2011)
• All Time Low – Dirty Work (2011)
• The Black Keys – Tighten Up (Radio Mix) (2011)
• The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (2011)
• The Cars – Move Like This (2011)
• The Walkmen – Juveniles (2011)
• Crystal Castles – Not in Love (feat. Robert Smith) (2011)
• R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now (2011)
• Blur : Video Game – Blur : Video Game (2010)
• Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes (2010)
• Biffy Clyro – Many of Horror (2010)
• Melee – The Masquerade (2010)
• Tired Pony – The Place We Ran From (2010)
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (2010)
• Snow Patrol – Up to Now (2009)
• R.E.M. – Live at the Olympia (2009)
• AFI – Crash Love (2009)
• Regina Spektor – Far (2009)
• U2 – Medium, Rare & Remastered (2009)
• Weezer – Raditude (2009)
• Amanda Blank – Shame on Me (2009)
• Bloc Party – One More Chance (2009)
• Marmaduke Duke – Sillouettes (2009)
• Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns (2008)
• Bloc Party – Intimacy (2008)
• Weezer – The Red Album (2008)
• Hadouken! – Music for an Accelerated Culture (2008)
• R.E.M. – Accelerate (2008)
• PlayRadioPlay! – Texas (2008)
• Weezer – Troublemaker (2008)
• Bloc Party – Mercury (2008)
• Weezer – Pork and Beans (2008)
• The Hives – Tick Tick Boom (2007)
• The Hives – The Black and White Album (2007)
• Nicole Scherzinger – Just Say Yes (2007)
• Bloc Party – Flux (2007)
• Snow Patrol – Signal Fire (2007)
• Green Day & U2 – The Saints Are Coming (2007)
• Editors – An End Has a Start (2007)
• Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City (2007)
• Editors – Bullets (2006)
• Juliet – Ride the Pain (2005)
• Bono, The Edge, Andrea Corr and T-Bone Burnett – Don't Come Knocking (2005)
• Snow Patrol – Eyes Open (2006)
• The Freelance Hellraiser – Waiting for Clearance (2006)
• Vaux – Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice (2006)
• Vega4 – You and Others (2006)
• U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
• Kasabian – Reason Is Treason (2004)
• Aqualung – Still Life (2004)
• Snow Patrol – Final Straw (2003)
• 28 Days Later OST Enhanced – Ave Maria (2003)
• Sack – Butterfly Effect (1997)

Remixes

• Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At?
• Editors – An End Has a Start
• U2 – Window in the Skies
• U2 – Fast Cars
• U2 – Vertigo
• U2 & Pavarotti – Ave Maria
• New Order – Waiting for the Sirens Call
• Elkland – Apart
• Spektrum – Kinda New
• The Raveonettes – That Great Love Sound
• Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands
• Run DMC – It's Tricky
• Eminem – Cleaning Out My Closet
• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On
• Radiohead – Airbag
• Kraftwerk – Airwaves
• Christina Aguilera – Can't Hold Us Down
• Pink – Just Like a Pill
• TLC – Girl Talk
• Blur and Marianne Faithfull – Kissin Time
• The Future Sound of London – The Mello Hippo Disco Show
• Dirty Vegas – Simple Things
• Snow Patrol – Run
• Snow Patrol – You're All I Have
• Badly Drawn Boy – Born Again
• Longview – Further
• Aqualung – Good Time Is Gonna Come
• Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful
• Buck 65 – Wicked and Weird
• Kosheen – Wasting My Time
• Björk – I Miss You
• Tom Jones – Black Betty
• Sona Fariq – Move On
• Headrillaz – Shoeshinel
• Puddu Varano – Columbia
• Fuzz Townsend – Bus
• The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
• Elvis Presley – Burnin' Love
• Telepopmusik – Do tha Hoola
• LHB feat. Justin Warfield – No Transmission
• Dirty Harry – So Real
• Couch Nation – Beef
• Kasabian – Reason Is Treason

References

External links

• Official Jacknife Lee site
• Discogs listing of all Releases, Remixes, Production, Co-production, and Mixes by Jacknife Lee
• BigLife Producers on Garret Lee (aka Jacknife Lee) - Producer/Songwriter/Remixer
• Official Jack Planck site