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Clark Sorley was born on 31 July, 1956 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, is an A scottish record producer. Discover Clark Sorley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Record producer
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 31 July, 1956
Birthday 31 July
Birthplace Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

Alexander Clark Sorley (born 31 July 1956) is a Scottish record producer from Ayrshire, Scotland.

1970

After playing in pub-rock bands in the first half of the 1970s Sorley started Sirocco Studio with a bunch of musician friends.

Over the next eleven years it became one of the most widely used facilities in Scotland, initially favoured by post-punk bands like The Laughing Apple and Positive Noise for its lo-fi credentials.

Although in later years it came to be owned and managed by Sorley it began in a collective spirit with an emphasis on nurturing emergent talent.

Thousands of musicians cut their studio teeth at Sirocco.

1978

He was co-founder of Sirocco Recording Studio in Kilmarnock which ran from 1978-1989.

During a career spanning five decades Sorley has made upwards of 10,000 music recordings, the majority of these being for commercial release or broadcast.

The remainder is unreleased material numbering around 1,300 works most of which Sorley either composed, arranged, produced or performed.

The unreleased archive has been recently curated and remastered for online streaming.

For Lismor the studio made location recordings of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, the 78th Fraser Highlanders and Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band.

Folk singer Alastair McDonald, owner of Corban, was a regular client who Sorley continues to work with today.

1979

Sorley joined the music production department at Radio Clyde in 1979 working with Andy Park and Bob McDowall.

He recorded for Clyde's jazz oriented library label which produced records with Carol Kidd, Bobby Wishart, Danny Street, Bobby Wellins and Peggy O'Keefe.

Over an eighteen-month period at Radio Clyde, Sorley made broadcast recordings of: Rose Royce, Lulu, Gordon Giltrap, Durutti Column, The Fall, Bad Manners, Pete Shelley, Orange Juice, Spandau Ballet, The Stiff Tour, Climax Chicago Blues Band, Alice Cooper, The Pretenders, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, 10cc, Funkapolitan, Wang Chung, Morrissey–Mullen, Mike Westbrook, Stan Tracey, Don Weller, Jimmy Deuchar, Al Cohn, Benjamin Luxon, Peter Pears, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

1980

Among artists of note known to have worked at Sirooco in the 1980s were Del Amitri, The Bluebells, Aztec Camera, Kissing the Pink, Alan McGee, Andrew Innes, Martin Taylor, Alexander Stoddart, Hamish Imlach, Eddi Reader, Elaine C. Smith, Mike Ogletree, Terry Neason, Tiger Tim Stevens, Mr. Superbad, Mary Kiani, Big George and the Business and Jimmy Dewar.

1981

Sorley left the Clyde staff in 1981 and as a free-lance produced programmes for the station with live music content, recording many headline artists including Ben E. King, The Drifters, The Waitresses, The Average White Band, Mari Wilson, Big Audio Dynamite, Slade, Runrig and Shakatak.

1982

He also covered the Pope's visit to Glasgow in 1982.

All these live recordings were done using Mobile Two, a 24-track unit custom-built to a high spec by the Clyde engineers under John Lumsden.

They were remixed in the station's multi-track studio and produced to record master quality.

1983

He spent a few weeks in 1983 playing bass with Liverpool band The Lotus Eaters prior to the release of their first hit single on Arista.

The same year he worked with Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark at David Balfe's studio in the Scottish Highlands.

1985

In 1985 James Kelman edited his "Writers For Miners" project in Sirocco.

It was a live recording made by Sorley in The Third Eye Centre in Glasgow of Scotland's prominent poets and novelists at the time.

The same year Dick Gaughan, also in support of the miners, made the True & Bold album at the studio for the S.T.U.C. which Sorley co-produced.

Around the same time Tracey Ullman and Robbie Coltrane came to the studio to perform on the music tracks for BBC Scotland's A Kick Up the Eighties.

Also for the BBC, saxophonist Tommy Smith filmed part of a documentary about his career there as did cult Glasgow band Scheme for Channel 4.

Scheme had previously recorded their first album funded by Glasgow City Council at Sirocco.

Glasgow based record labels Klub, Lismor and Corban recorded over 100 albums in Sirocco with mainly traditional Scottish music artists including The Alexander Brothers, Andy Stewart, Kenneth McKellar, Peter Morrison, Robert Urquhart and Bill McCue.

1986

For 15 years from 1986 Sorley produced a broadcast of West Sound Radio's annual Burns Supper.

The biggest such event in the world, it was represented by a star cast, from ex prime ministers to leading clergy and celebrities.

Other notable artists recorded during his time as an independent were Les Dennis, Daniel O'Donnell and Isobel Buchanan.

Sorley became involved in consultancy work for the Scottish Development Agency in the late 80s.

1987

He was musical director on Scottish Television's Terry Neason Show in 1987.

He also appeared live with Terry at The Donmar Warehouse and on Radio 2.

1988

His work with singer-songwriter James Oliver resulted in two of their collaborations rising to the finals of BBC's A Song For Europe in 1988 and 1989.

Sorley performed live on the show and on Wogan.

1989

Many went on to have careers in the business such as the studio's engineer, Frank Reader, whose band Trashcan Sinatras bought Sorley out following their signing to Go! Discs in 1989.

The studio name was then changed to Shabby Road.

2003

They are part of a larger body of live recordings done by Radio Clyde referred to in The Guardian in 2003 as "a musical treasure trove" when discovered years later.

Away from Sirocco and Clyde, Sorley worked independently in a variety of music related roles.