Producers (band)

The Trevor Horn Band, a.k.a. Producers
Producers performing at ACM, Guildford in 2012 (L-R: Lol Creme, Ash Soan (drums), Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson
Background information
Also known as	(The) Producers (2006–09, 09–15), US (briefly in 2009), The Trevor Horn Orchestra (once in 2012)
Origin	London, England
Genres	Synthpop, new wave, pop rock, progressive rock
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Stiff Records, ZTT Records
Associated acts	Art of Noise, The Buggles
Website	http://www.producersmusic.co.uk/ (defunct)
Members	Lol Creme Trevor Horn Steve Lipson Ash Soan
Past members	Chris Braide

The Trevor Horn Band are an English supergroup formed in 2006 as The Producers, consisting of record producers Trevor Horn (bass and vocals) and Steve Lipson (guitar), and musicians Lol Creme (guitar and vocals) and Ash Soan (drums). The band briefly adopted the name US before changing to Producers. Latterly, they have switched to the name The Trevor Horn Band.

Producer Chris Braide (keyboards and vocals) was originally a member but left in 2009 due to work commitments, though still contributed to the band's début album Made in Basing Street (released under the name Producers), released on 25 June 2012.Gary Langan also works with the band, engineering and mixing in the studio and working front of house at gigs.

The concept for the band was conceived as a mutual means for the ZTT music producer partners Trevor Horn (formerly of The Buggles, Yes and Art of Noise) and Steve Lipson (session guitarist for a number of acts) to take a break from their work in the studio and play their songs live. Joined by producer Chris Braide, music video director and former 10cc frontman Lol Creme (also formerly of Godley and Creme and Art of Noise) and session drummer Ash Soan (worked for various artists including Dido and Robbie Williams, and former member of Del Amitri), they named the project The Producers in reference to their careers in the studio, and started out playing live covers. Their first gig was at the Barfly in Camden Town, London in November 2006, playing songs from the members' history (including "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles, Clay Aiken's song "Invisible" (co-written by Braide), and 10cc's "Rubber Bullets" and "I'm Not in Love"), as well as covers of other songs that the members had written, worked on, or simply enjoyed. The band was joined by percussionist Luís Jardim and guests; Anne Dudley, David Jordan, producer Bruce Woolley (a friend of Horn's who worked with The Buggles) and Will Young. The band would eventually return to the studio to record original material for Horn and Langan's ZTT branch of Stiff Records, with sessions beginning in Los Angeles in December 2006. Producer, audio engineer and third former member of Art of Noise, Gary Langan, joined as the band's engineer, mixing the album and working front of house at live shows.