Glenn Gregory & Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware

Born in 1956 in Sheffield, UK. After leaving school worked in computers for 3 years, in 1978 formed The Human League.

Formed production company/label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same year.

Martyn has written, performed and produced two Human League, two BEF and nine Heaven 17 albums.

As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide - producing Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples, etc. Etc.

Founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique three-dimensional sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world.

Clients include: BP, Ogilvy, The British Council, The Science Museum, The Royal Ballet, Amnesty International, The V&A Museum, Mute Records, BBC TV, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, BAFTA , Museum Of London. Tate Britain, Red Bull Music Academy, City Of Westminster Council, etc. etc.

Martyn produces and presents a series of events entitled ‘Future Of Sound’ (20 so far) in UK and around the world and has created sonic architectural works at the British Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006 amongst many others.

Martyn is also…

  • Visiting Professor at C4DM at Queen Mary College, University of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
  • Visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art
  • Visiting lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Founding member of the LA-based international think-tank group Matter
  • Fellow of the Academy of Urbanism
  • Founder member of 5D (a US based organization promoting future development of immersive design).
  • Member of the Writer’s Guild of America
  • Member of the advisory board for the De Montfort University ‘DMU Creative’ record label/internet radio project
  • Member of the advisory board for Queen Mary College, University of London, Doctoral Training Centre in Digital Music & Media for the Creative Economy

He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, and creativity at universities and colleges across the world and he is Head of Sonic Experience and co-founder of the world-leading sound-branding agency - SonicID.

Glenn Gregory

Glen Gregory had known the founder members of The Human League for many years. He had been singing and playing bass in bands with Ian Craig Marsh since 1973. In early 1981 he was contacted by Martyn Ware after the original membership of The Human League split, and was asked to join Heaven 17. He married the singer Sarah Osbourn of the Belgian group, Allez Allez.

In 1984 Gregory sang on the Band Aid single, "Do They Know It's Christmas", singing the line "No rain nor rivers flow".

Outside of Heaven 17, Gregory has worked with Tina Turner, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Terence Trent D'Arby, Ultravox and John Lydon.