Vincenzo "Cenzo" Capellini Townshend (born 25 March 1963) is an English record producer, mixer, and audio engineer, and has worked with artists and bands including the Rolling Stones, a-ha, Kaiser Chiefs, U2, Snow Patrol, Florence + the Machine, Jamie T, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, the Maccabees, Jamie Cullum, Mystery Jets, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Thirty Seconds to Mars. Townshend was awarded 'Mix Engineer of the Year' for two successive years by the Music Producers Guild Awards in 2009 and 2010, and nominated again in 2016, 2017 and 2018."Muse thank Rick Rubin for teaching them 'how not to produce' at Music Producers Guild Awards", NME, 11 February 2010, retrieved 2011-06-10
Early life He is the only child of Antonio Capellini and Lady Carolyn Townshend, the eldest daughter of George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend. After his parents divorced in 1971, his mother remarried to Edgar Bronfman Sr. in 1973, but they separated after only 10 days and the marriage was annulled in 1974.
Townshend was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 volume 3, page 3923.
Career Townshend began his career by working at Trident Studios in London in the late 1980s, eventually working as an assistant engineer for Alan Moulder and Mark 'Spike' Stent. Following this, Townshend worked independently with producer Ian Broudie for 8 years and then joined producer Stephen Street at The Bunker in Olympic Studios in London where he maintained residency until its closure in 2009.
As of 2012, Townshend mixed from his Decoy Studios in Woodbridge Suffolk.
Selected discography (mixing)
+Cenzo Townshend discography Year Artist Album Song(s)2024DI-RECTSphinx2023Sophie Ellis-BextorHana2020DI-RECTWild HeartsSea GirlsOpen Up Your HeadOh WonderNo One Else Can Wear Your Crown2019DI-RECTNothing To Lose (EP)The Rolling StonesHonk"Living in a Ghost Town"KeaneCause and EffectThe SpecialsEncore 2017Everything EverythingA Fever Dream Rat Boy SCUM Maxïmo Park Risk to Exist You Me At Six Night People "Take on the World" Amy Macdonald Under Stars James Blunt The Afterlove Make Me Better 2016 The Courteeners Mapping the Rendezvous Passenger Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea Sophie Ellis-Bextor Familia Jake Bugg On My One Suede Night Thoughts Kaiser Chiefs Stay Together various The Feeling The Feeling 2015 Nothing but Thieves Nothing but Thieves various a-ha Cast in Steel "Cast in Steel" "Mythomania" "She's Humming A Tune" "Giving Up The Ghost" "The End Of The Affair"(only included in bonus disc) The Maccabees Marks to Prove It Everything Everything Get to Heaven various SOAK Before We Forgot How to Dream "Sea Creatures" "B a noBody" All We Are All We Are various Rhodes Wishes FFS FFS various 2014 George Ezra Wanted on Voyage Jamie T Carry on the Grudge Jungle (Single) "Time" Port Isla (Single) "In The Long Run" Foxes Glorious Sivu Something On High various The Family Rain Under the Volcano Dotan 7 Layers Ward Thomas (Single) "Push For The Stride" Passenger Whispers (Single) 2013 Tom Odell Long Way Down tracks Lissie Back to Forever Together Pangea Badillac Skaters Manhattan Devlin A Moving Picture tracks 2012 The Vaccines Come of Age Kensington Vultures Tom Jones Spirit in the Room "Hit or Miss" Miles Kane First of My Kind Sharon Van Etten Tramp (Single) King Charles LoveBlood Kaiser Chiefs Start the Revolution Without Me Paper Route The Peace of Wild Things The Maccabees Given to the Wild Snow Patrol Fallen Empires Various Kate Miller-Heidke Nightflight 2011 Ben Howard Every Kingdom "The Fear", "Diamonds" & "Keep Your Head Up" Alex Winston Velvet Elvis EP Eskimo Joe Ghosts of the Past Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II "Not In Love" (Ft. Robert Smith) Guillemots Walk the River "I Must Be A Lover" Patrick Wolf Lupercalia Friendly Fires Pala The Feeling Together We Were Made The Horrors Skying "Changing the Rain" 2010 Zebra & Giraffe The Inside Bryan Ferry Every Kingdom Devlin Bud, Sweat and Beers Grinderman (Single) "Palaces of Montezuma" Detroit Social Club Existence Tom Jones Praise & Blame "Did Trouble Me" Yeasayer (Single) "Madder Red" Jamie Cullum The Pursuit "Don't Stop the Music" Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea "Paris Nights/New York Mornings" 2009 Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War Starsailor All the Plans Florence + The Machine Lungs Hockey (Single) "Too Fake" U2 No Line on the Horizon Various Franz Ferdinand Tonight Jamie T Kings & Queens "various" Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart Editors In This Light and on This Evening Late Of The Pier Fantasy Black Channel 2008 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns Elbow (Single) "One Day Like This" Infadels (Single) "Make Mistakes" Infadels (Single) "Free Things For Poor People" Primal Scream Beautiful Future "Beautiful Future" & "Can't Go Back" 2007 The Maccabees Colour It In "Toothpaste Kisses" Jamie T Panic Prevention "various" Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block "Young Folks" ft. Victoria Bergsman Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob Athlete Beyond the Neighbourhood Babyshambles Shotter's Nation Bloc Party A Weekend in the City Editors An End Has a Start Interpol Our Love to Admire "No I In Threesome" The Maccabees Colour It In "About Your Dress" Mystery Jets Diamonds in the Dark EP 2006 The Zutons Tired of Hanging Around "Valeria" Snow Patrol Eyes Open Graham Coxon (Single) "What Ya Gonna Do Now?" Babyshambles The Blinding EP Mystery Jets Floatsam and Jetsam EP Graham Coxon Love Travels at Illegal Speeds Editors The Back Room 2005 New Order Waiting for the Sirens' Call Kaiser Chiefs Employment
References
External links Spotify Playlist AllMusic Discography Decoy Studios