Album credits

1. "Big City Secret"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
   • Roger Beaujolais: vibes
   • Martyn Barker: treated tubular kit
   • Simon Edwards: bass
   • Markus Dravs: keyboards, desert storm & gravel percussion
2. "Mercedes"
   • Joseph Arthur: harmonica, guitar and vocals
   • Martyn Barker: drums
   • Simon Edwards: bass
   • Markus Dravs: corn horn
   • Roger Beaujolais: Venetian xylophone
   • Peter Gabriel
     Peter Gabriel
     Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
     
     : backing vocals
   • Brian Eno
     Brian Eno
     Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
     
     : backing vocals
3. "Mikel K"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
   • Nigel Eaton: hurdy gurdy
     Hurdy gurdy
     The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin...
     
     
   • Martyn Barker: drums
   • Simon Edwards: bass
4. "Good About Me"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
   • Martyn Barker: caxixi
     Caxixi
     A caxixi is a percussion instrument consisting of a closed basket with a flat-bottom filled with seeds or other small particles. The caxixi is an indirectly struck idiophone. Like the maraca, it is sounded by shaking. It is found across Africa and South America, but mainly in Brazil...
     
     
   • Simon Edwards: piano, bass
   • Markus Dravs: drum programming
5. "Daddy's on Prozac"
   • Joseph Arthur: vocals, highly-strung bass, guitar
   • Martyn Barker: drums
   • Simon Edwards: bass
6. "Marina"
   • Joseph Arthur: vocals
   • Martyn Barker: drums
   • Simon Edwards: bass performance and arrangement
   • Ashley Slater: trombones
7. "Birthday Card"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
   • Ron Aslan: drum loop
   • Markus Dravs: lesley accordion and drum programming
   • Martyn Barker: military snare
   • Simon Edwards: coal bass, additional guitars
   • Nick Plytas: mellotron
8. "Crying Like a Man"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
   • Ashley Slater: trombone
   • Martyn Barker: bondage snare
   • Markus Dravs: low drum and sheet percussion
   • Simon Edwards: string fossil bass
9. "Porcupine"
   • Joseph Arthur: guitars and vocals
   • Martyn Barker: live drums and scaffolphoneum
   • Simon Edwards: maze bass, sas
   • Markus Dravs: drum programming
10. "Dessert"
    • Joseph Arthur: vocals
    • Martyn Barker: drums
    • Simon Edwards: bass
11. "Haunted Eyes"
    • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
    • Martyn Barker: drums, birimbau, cow gong
    • Simon Edwards: bass, birimbau, melotron and Persian fretless
12. "Bottle of You"
    • Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
    • Martyn Barker: percussion
    • Simon Edwards: filter bass, harmonic missiles
      • Produced by Markus Dravs (c/o Fundamental Music).
      • Engineered and digitally edited by Ben Findlay.
      • Mixed by Markus Dravs with Ben Findlay.
      • Additional engineers: Justin Griffith, Lee Phillips, Lee Fitzgerald and Mark Aubury.
      • Additional editors: Crispin Murray and Paul Morris
      • Recorded and mixed at Real World Studios, England.
      • Additional venues: Swanyard Studios, Eascote Studios, Berwick Street Studios in England; Shelter Island Studios in New York.
      • A Real World design; graphic design by Tristan Manco.
      • Photography by Michele Turriani (front and back of booklet); Anna Gabriel (inlay and CD label).
      • Paintings and drawings by Joseph Arthur.

External links

• Official Album Page.
• [ Big City Secrets at Allmusic].
• http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000HPS/Big City Secrets at amazon.com
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