Youth
Youth performing withKilling Joke in 2011
Background information
Also known as	Youth, Orion
Born	Martin Glover (1960-12-27)27 December 1960 (age 65) Slough,Buckinghamshire, England
Genres	Rock post-punk experimental rock electronic ambient dub
Occupations	Musician, record producer
Instruments	Bass keyboards vocals
Member of	Killing Joke,the Fireman
Formerly of	Brilliant,Blue Pearl,Pigface

Martin Glover (born 27 December 1960), better known by his stage nameYouth, is a British musician and record producer. He is a founding member and bassist of the rock bandKilling Joke, and a member ofthe Fireman, along withPaul McCartney.

Martin Glover was born on 27 December 1960 inSlough, at that point part ofBuckinghamshire, England. He attendedprivateboarding schoolKingham Hill School nearChipping Norton,Oxfordshire, where he metAlex Paterson,^[1] who would become a roadie for Glover's bandKilling Joke, and later founder ofthe Orb. Naming himself Youth after theroots reggae chanterBig Youth, in 1977 he joinedpunk rock band the Rage, who toured withthe Adverts.^[2][3] Later he joined "4 Be 2", a band formed byJohn Lydon's brother Jimmy Lydon, and recorded the "One of the Lads" single with them.^[3]

Youth was the original bass player in Killing Joke but left the band in 1982 and soon after founded his own bandBrilliant with futurethe KLF memberJimmy Cauty. The act recorded one album with producersStock Aitken Waterman (SAW) in 1985 before disbanding.

Youth also played bass on theBollock Brothers' disco-mix 12-inch, "The Slow Removal of Vincent van Gogh's Left Ear" (1982).

In 1989, Youth andAlex Paterson started theWAU! Mr. Modo label.^[4]

Youth was asked byAdrian Sherwood toremix some ofBim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of theMiracle album. He also appeared on aTed Parsons/NIC dub album, contributing a remix which opens with a sample fromGlen Brown's "Version '78", a track originally released on the South East label.

In the early nineties, Youth formed techno and house music duoBlue Pearl together with American singerDurga McBroom. They scored a handful of hit singles including their blue vinyl debut "Naked in the Rain", which reached No. 4 in theUK singles chart and was also a No. 5 dance hit in the U.S. in 1990. It was followed by "Little Brother" and "(Can You) Feel the Passion". An album,Naked, was also released.

In 1994, Youth rejoined Killing Joke and their albumPandemonium was released on hisButterfly Recordings label, as was the 1996 follow-up,Democracy.

He is credited with founding the firstpsychedelic trance record label, Dragonfly Records, as well as the Liquid Sound Design and Kamaflage Records labels. He is well known in the psychedelic trance scene, collaborating withSimon Posford andSaul Davies as Celtic Cross, withGreg Hunter and Simon Posford as Dub Trees, and on the project Zodiac Youth. He has performed both full-on trance as well as chill-out DJ sets at severalReturn to the Source parties, and released theAmbient Meditations 3 mix album on their label in 2000. His Butterfly Studios were also home of the Return to the Source offices circa 1999–2002.

Youth'sButterfly Records label has produced artists such asTake That,Wet Wet Wet,Tom Jones,the Orb,System 7,Maria McKee andHeather Nova. Youth was the co-producer ofthe Verve'sUrban Hymns andDolores O'Riordan'sAre You Listening?.^[5] He has also worked, produced and remixed for artists includingKate Bush,Guns N' Roses,Primal Scream,Embrace,Siouxsie and the Banshees,Gaudi,Art of Noise,Crowded House,Zoe,P.M. Dawn,Pop Will Eat Itself,Yazoo,Erasure,U2,Bananarama,INXS,James andSuns of Arqa.

Youth had also made plans to work withDuran Duran in the later stages of their lost albumReportage,^[6] before it was shelved later in 2006.

In 2008, Youth produced theDelays albumEverything's the Rush,the Futureheads'This Is Not The World and worked on the debut album ofAmerican bandThe Daylights. In 2013, Glover produced the debut albumCollective by the DIY indie rock bandEchotape,^[7] followed byMeteorites byEcho and the Bunnymen andLion byPeter Murphy. The following year, Glover producedCulture Club'sTribes album.

Youth is a member of the bandTransmission, together withSimon Tong ofthe Verve,Paul Ferguson of Killing Joke and Tim Bran ofDreadzone. He also played guitar on several tracks on the 2007Client albumHeartland.

In mid-2010, he teamed up withAlex Paterson (ofthe Orb) to compile a retrospective compilation album of tracks from theWAU! Mr Modo label. The album titledImpossible Oddities was released on CD and double vinyl on 25 October 2010 via Year Zero Records.

In 2011, he recordedGeneration Indigo, a fusion of punk, dub, ambient and techno withPoly Styrene of earlypunk rock bandX-Ray Spex.

On 27 October 2012, during theInternational Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers SOUNDEDIT, Youth was awarded The Man with the Golden Ear Award.^[8][9]

In 2016, he received thePPLMusic Producers Guild Lifetime Achievement award and released the albumCreateChrist, Sailor Boy withDavid Tibet as Hypnopazūzu.^[10]

In 2017, he teamed withGaudi for two collaborative releases as 'YOUTH & GAUDI': the vinyl 10in '2063: A Dub Odyssey' (printed on a limited edition green vinyl) and their debut album 'Astronaut Alchemists', both on Liquid Sound Design.Subsequently, the duo released the double album 'AstronautAlchemists –Remixes' featuring Banco de Gaia,The Orb, Kaya Project, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Kuba, Gabriel Le Mar, Pitch Black, BUS/Gus Till, Vlastur, Deep Fried Dub, The Egg, Jef Stott/Aslan Dub, Onium, Living Light,Sadhu Sensi, DM-Theory and Uncle Fester On Acid.

In 2018, he recorded a collaborative album withNik Turner.Pharaohs from Outer Space was released by Painted Word on 17 August 2018.

In 2019 he teamed with Italian musician Emilio Sorridente and created The Dream Symposium. They recorded the space rock albumGreen Electric Muse, produced by Youth and released in 2020 by Youthsounds Records. In the same year, he worked withPublic Image Ltd'sKeith Levene andRichard Dudanski on a single about theBrexit revolt with Mark Stewart ofthe Pop Group on vocals.

In 2021, he received theGrammy Award in the category Best Reggae Album as a producer ofGot to Be Tough byToots and the Maytals.^[11]

Taken from Martin Glover's Youth site.^[12]

• Hämäläinen, Jyrki "Spider" (2020).Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?. Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing Ltd.ISBN 978-1-912587-40-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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