Stu Watts chats with Award-winning producer Anna Laverty, who has built an exceptional and ever-growing show reel of credits, which has solidified her reputation as one of Australia’s finest creative talents.
Having cut her teeth under the tutelage of award-winning producers Paul Epworth (Adele, Primal Scream, Foster The People) and Ben Hillier (Blur, U2, Elbow) at London’s famed Miloco Studios, working on releases by the likes of Florence and The Machine, Bloc Party, Depeche Mode and Pete Doherty, Anna brought her talents and experience back to Australia and has become one of the go-to producers in the nation’s music scene.
Her impressive body of work and reputation saw her picked out to feature on the successful 2019 ABC television series ‘The Recording Studio’ as a featured engineer.
In early 2020, Anna worked alongside legendary American songwriter, Amanda Palmer. Originally slated as a single four-hour session, the chemistry and outcomes were so strong, the two went on to record an entire album called ‘Forty-Five Degrees’, which featured performances from Missy Higgins, Montaigne and Clare Bowditch.
Ever busy, Anna has in recent time produced albums by Camp Cope, Stella Donnelly, Pinch Points, Screamfeeder and a live album for Courtney Barnett at the Royal Exhibition Buildings. In addition to her production talents, Anna is an adept songwriter having recently written with Kav Temperley, Stella Donnelly, Jade McInally and Dallas Woods among others.
Anna generously shares her experience and expertise with budding songwriters and producers in Australia as an APRA AMCOS ambassador, at APRA ‘Songmakers’ sessions, as a mentor for the ‘Girls Rock’ program and has spoken at music conferences around the world including The Great Escape (UK), Bigsound (QLD), Going Global (NZ), The Melbourne Sessions (VIC), Guinness Amplify (KL) and InTune (NT).

Topics discussed include:

• Being an Assistant Engineer for around 10 years, and some of the skills obtained from that period


• The importance of listening and artist comfort in the studio


• Music Producers and Engineers Guild of Australia and the findings of the inaugural survey report


• ...and more

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