Youth

Martin Glover, known by his stage name Youth is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke and a member of the Fireman, along with Paul McCartney.

Youth is most famous for being the bass player in Killing Joke. In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label. In the early nineties, Youth formed techno and house music duo Blue Pearl together with American singer Durga McBroom. They scored a handful of hit singles including their blue vinyl debut “Naked in the Rain“, which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart.

Youth’s Butterfly Records label has produced artists such as Take That, Wet Wet Wet, Tom Jones, The Orb, System 7, Maria McKee and Heather Nova. Youth was the co-producer of The Verve‘s Urban Hymns and Dolores O’Riordan‘s ‘Are You Listening?’. He has worked, produced and remixed with many artists including Kate Bush, Guns N’ Roses, Primal Scream, Embrace, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Crowded House, U2, Bananarama, INXS, Depeche Mode,  Pink Floyd and The Charlatans.

He is credited with founding the first psychedelic trance record label, Dragonfly Records, as well as the Liquid Sound Design and Kamaflage Records labels. Youth has received numerous awards over the years including Soundedits’s The Man with the Golden Ear Award and the PPL Music Producers Guild Lifetime Achievement award.