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Rob Ellis - Songwriting Tutor

Perhaps Rob’s most widely known work has been that with PJ Harvey, with whom he has collaborated as producer, co-writer, arranger and touring musician from 1991’s debut album “Dry” through to 2005’s “Uh huh her” including co-producing her 2001 Mercury award winning album “Stories from the city, stories from the sea”. In between those sessions and in the meantime Rob has also found time to work with such legendary artists as Scott Walker, Marianne Faithfull, Paul Weller and Robyn Hitchcock along with more contemporary artists such as Goldfrapp, Placebo, Charlotte Hatherley, Dot Allison and Pete Doherty. Rob has released albums of his own compositions on the electronica label Leaf that are in the vein of “modern classical” and which have been used as documentary incidental music for TV and radio stations all over the world