Justin Lockey

2019 saw the release of Editors first compilation album Black Gold featuring thirteen tracks spanning the band's career to date. The band recorded three new songs for the compilation with producer Jacknife Lee (R.E.M, Snow Patrol) at his studio north of Los Angeles, U.S.

2018's album Violence again saw the band set up a makeshift studio space, this time on the outskirts of Oxford, UK. This time Lockey engineered and producers Blanck Mass and Leo Abrahams were drafted in to finish the record. The remaining tracking being completed at Monnow Valley studios, Monmouth, Wales, UK.

Lights on Moscow is a two-person project consisting of Lockey and Hazel Wilde from the band Lanterns On The Lake. The pair collaborated on and off for over a decade without releasing a song until their first e.p ‘Aorta Songs pt.1’ was released by Lockey’s label Physical Education Recordings in 2018.

Since that release the band have gone on to release two more albums, 2015's In Dream which Lockey engineered and co produced with the rest of the band in an isolated makeshift studio space on the west coast of Scotland.

Along with Elliott Williams, the band settled into a new period of creativity and after the Rock Werchter show the band in its new line up wasted no time setting to work on the fourth studio Album, 2014's The Weight of Your Love. Recorded by producer Jacquire King at the Blackbird Studios, Nashville, U.S.

The first album Chapter 1. A long Way From Home was released by the then fledgling Neo-Classical label, Erased Tapes Records and described by Lockey as "Prog-rock innit". The first album was recorded individually with band members being based at opposite end of the country. The band followed this up 5 years later in 2012, with Chapter 2: Konstellation Nue.

After the departure of Chris Urbanowicz from the band, Lockey was drafted in, initially to play the lead guitar for a small run of gigs leading up to and including headlining Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium 2012.

Initially started as a project with fellow studio engineer Craig Pilbin, White Belt Yellow Tag signed to Distiller records and released one album Methods recorded in South Yorkshire in 2009. Drafting in Tom Bellamy of The Cooper Temple Clause on drums for the live set up the band toured The UK, Europe and US. Though short-lived, the duo released several EPs. over the following year before parting ways

The band signed a deal with Fiction/Polydor and started work on their first album 'All Roads to Fault with engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Shellac) at his studio Electrical Audio in Chicago, US. The success of 'All Roads to Fault' led to the band picking up Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang awards 2004. After a cycle of touring the band then headed into the studio with producer Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins) to record their follow up - 2005’s ‘Ignoto’.

The band were prominent in the Newcastle alternative music scene of the early-2000s alongside peers such as Maximo Park and The Futureheads and after playing just a handful of gigs DJ John Peel invited the band down to the BBC's Maida Vale studios in London to record the first of two Peel Sessions they would record.

Justin Lockey (born February 1980, Doncaster, England.) is a British musician, composer, record producer, recording engineer, and record label owner from the north of England. He is best known as the lead guitarist in multi platinum selling band Editors as well as Minor Victories, alongside Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Rachel Goswell of Slowdive and his brother James Lockey (with whom he also makes films with under the handheldcineclub moniker).