Stuart Richardson

Stuart "Stu" Richardson (born 15 August 1973, Tonypandy, Wales) is a Welsh musician. He is the bassist for the rock band No Devotion, formed by former members of Lostprophets and Geoff Rickly of Thursday. He is also the touring bassist for Thursday.

Stuart Richardson
Stuart Richardson Performing with Lostprophets at Leeds Festival 2007
Background information
OriginTonypandy, Wales, UK
GenresAlternative rock
Occupation(s)Musician, Songwriter, Producer
InstrumentsBass guitar, Guitar
Years active1999–present
LabelsColumbia Records, Visible Noise
Associated actsLostprophets, No Devotion, Thursday

Career

Richardson is an only child. His mother worked in a butchers shop, bar and doctors office, and his dad was a miner. Richardson has said that one of his earliest musical obsessions was David Bowie. He was inspired to learn to play bass by Steve Harris of Iron Maiden.[1]

Richardson's career in the music industry started off in the mid 1990s, working as a producer in his local area in Wales.[2] By the late 1990s he was working as an engineer at Front Line Studios in Caerphilly, which is where he first met the other members of Lostprophets.[3]

He replaced Mike Lewis as bassist in Lostprophets after Mike switched to rhythm guitar, joining them in 1998 just before they recorded their third demo. He had worked with the band previously, having produced their first two demos. Lostprophets were signed to Columbia Records and Visible Noise in 2000 and released 5 studio albums before dissolving.

In October 2013, ten months after lead singer Ian Watkins was arrested and charged with multiple sexual offences, Richardson and the remaining members of the band announced that they could "no longer make or perform music as Lostprophets".[4] Six months later, they formed a new band, No Devotion, with Geoff Rickly as their new lead singer.[5] The band released their debut album Permanence in 2015. A follow up is currently in the works.

Richardson has been the touring bassist of Thursday since 2017.

He is the co-owner of Rocky Water Studios, a studio based in the Eau Galle Arts District of Melbourne Beach, Florida.[6]

Discography

With No Devotion
  • Permanence (2015)

With Lostprophets

Other (selected)
  • Funeral For A Friend - Memory & Humanity (Backing vocals) (2008)
  • Attack! Attack! - Attack! Attack! (Producer, Engineer, Mixing) (2008)
  • Suburban Myth - Sick Feeling (Mixing) (2015)
  • Bars and Melody - Generation Z (Producer, Mixing, Composer) (2017)
  • Cyclone Static - From Scratch (Mixing, Mastering) (2019)

References
  1. "Lostprophets - Stuart Richardson". 3 December 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  2. "STUART RICHARDSON - MUSICIAN/PRODUCER/MIXER". Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  3. "Lostprophets - Stuart Richardson". 3 December 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  4. Pyke, Chris (26 November 2013). "Ian Watkins: From first-class graduate and homegrown hero to infamous depraved paedophile". Wales Online. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  5. Lach, Stef (1 October 2015). "No Devotion will survive vows Richardson". Metal Hammer Magazine. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  6. "ROCKY WATER STUDIOS". Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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