Adrian Francis Utley is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 musician and a member of the band Portishead.

Biography

Utley is self-taught on guitar, bass and keyboards, and played professionally from the age of 18 in working men's clubs, night clubs, holiday camps, and in cabaret, backing soul artists. During the 1980s he played jazz and R&B; then, in the early 1990s, his interest in electronics, recording and production, led him to join Portishead.

His production work includes Portishead, The Coral

The Coral

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...

's third album The Invisible Invasion

The Invisible Invasion

The Invisible Invasion is the third full-length album by The Coral. It was released on May 23, 2005 in the United Kingdom and entered at #3 in the album charts . The production is by Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley of Portishead, and most critics have described this album as a more stripped-down...

, Joe Volk

Joe Volk

-Solo:Volk is signed to Invada Records as a solo artist and released his debut album 'Derwent Waters Saint' in 2006. The album was recorded, engineered and produced by Adrian Utley, guitarist with the band Portishead...

, Beth Gibbons

Beth Gibbons

Beth Gibbons is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist for the iconic British band Portishead.-Early life:...

 and Kevin Flanagan.

His film work includes:

• "Sound" - Nicholas Roeg
• "Signs and Wonders" - Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...
  
  
• "Accelerator" Vinnie Murphie - with Will Gregory
  Will Gregory
  William Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...
  
  
• "Baby Cue" Hazel Grian
• "American Psycho" Mary Harron
  Mary Harron
  Mary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.-Overview:...
  
   - with Daniel Ash
  Daniel Ash
  Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...
  
  
• "Spiders from Mars" BBC Wildlife on One, David Attenborough
  David Attenborough
  Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
  
  

External links

• An Interview
• Biographical note