Steve Albini

Steven Frank "Steve" Albini (born July 22, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, Pete Conway's solo project Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex located in Chicago. As a recording engineer Albini has worked with artists such as Slint, The Pixies, The Breeders, Pegboy, Urge Overkill, The Jesus Lizard, The Wedding Present, Superchunk, PJ Harvey, Nirvana and Nina Nastasia.

Links To Peel
Peel has been a fan of Albini's work through Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac. Albini as an individual has worked with artists such as Cath Carroll and himself for various compilation albums, which have been played by Peel on his show.

Albini's work as a producer for various artists such as the Wedding Present and Nirvana were praised by Peel on his show and he got to meet Albini in Groningen, Netherlands at the Eurosonic festival, which he mentioned on his 15 January 2002 show:


 * "An exciting moment in my life: we've had drinks with Steve Albini who's been a hero of mine for many, many years but a man of whom I was slightly frightened because he had a fairly fearsome reputation. Turns out to be a most amiable and very focussed kind of bloke actually, with a lot of interesting ideas which I may pass on to you in the next few months."

Peel on his 09 January 2003 show mentioned that Albini recommended Nina Nastasia to him when he sent a copy of Nina's debut LP, "Dogs". In return, John was supposed to send back a copy of the debut LP from Laura Cantrell, but admitted that he hadn't done so.

Shows Played
1990
 * 04 April 1990: King Creole (v/a album - The Last Temptation Of Elvis) NME

1992
 * 12 April 1990: King Creole (v/a album - The Last Temptation Of Elvis) NME
 * 02 February 1992: Nutty About Lemurs (compilation - Guitarrorists) No. 6 Records


 * Best Of Peel Vol 42: 'Nutty About Lemurs (Compilation CD-Guitarrorists)' (No. 6)