John Mitchell (musician)

Mitchell describes seeing Eric Clapton perform the song "Miss You" from his 1986 album August at a Prince's Trust concert as "the single defining moment that made me decide to put down the violin and pick up a guitar".^[3]

Influenced by guitarists such as Jeff Beck, Trevor Rabin and David Gilmour,^[1] Mitchell mainly sings and plays guitar, but is also a multi-instrumentalist. He was the second frontman for British prog-pop band It Bites (having replaced original singer and guitarist Francis Dunnery in 2006).^[4] As of 2015, he has been releasing records and touring with his solo project Lonely Robot, whose debut album Please Come Home was released on 23 February 2015.^[5] and featured a number of guest artists including Peter Cox, Steve Hogarth, Jem Godfrey, Nik Kershaw, and British actor Lee Ingleby. A second album, The Big Dream, was released in April 2017; ^[6] a third, Under Stars, followed in April 2019.

Mitchell has also played guitar for a number of other progressive rock bands including Arena, The Urbane, Kino, Frost*, and the John Wetton band. In 2008, Mitchell was drafted in to join A,^[7] playing bass in place of original bass player Daniel P. Carter to support The Wildhearts on their December UK tour, as well as a 10-date headline tour in 2009. In 2012, Mitchell toured with Martin Barre in his band "New Day", singing lead vocals on many songs by Jethro Tull.^[8]

In 2024, Mitchell joined Asia as the guitarist for the band's Heat of the Moment tour.^[9]

Mitchell is also a record producer and sound engineer at Outhouse Studios, a recording studio in Reading, UK, where he has recorded and produced music for a number of rock bands including Enter Shikari, You Me at Six, Lower Than Atlantis, Architects, The Blackout, Kids in Glass Houses, Funeral for a Friend, My Passion, Exit Ten, I Divide, Ivyrise, Anavae, Touchstone, Your Demise and You and What Army.^[10]

Mitchell is also the co-owner and co-founder of White Star Records, an independent record label which focuses on prog rock artists.^[11] Mitchell released an EP under his own name, The Nostalgia Factory, on White Star Records in 2016.

• Neon (1999)
• Glitter (2003)

• The Cry (1997 - EP)
• Welcome to the Stage (1997 - live)
• The Visitor (1998)
• Immortal? (2000)
• Breakfast in Biarritz (2001 - live)
• Contagion (2003)
• Contagious (2003 - EP)
• Contagium' (2003 - EP)
• Live & Life (2004 - live)
• Pepper's Ghost (2005)
• Ten Years On (2006 - compilation)
• The Seventh Degree Of Separation (2011)
• Contagion Max (2014)
• The Unquiet Sky (2015)
• Double Vision (2018)
• The Theory of Molecular Inheritance (2022)

• Picture (2005)
• Cutting Room Floor (2005 - compilation)
• Radio Voltaire (2018)

• Milliontown (2006)
• Experiments in Mass Appeal (2008)
• FrostFest Live CD (2009)
• The Philadelphia Experiment (2010 - live)
• The Rockfield Files (2013 - DVD)
• Falling Satellites (2016)
• Day and Age (2021)
• Island Live (2023)
• Life In The Wires (2024)

• Mirror (2007)

• On The Way (2007)

• Amorata (2009) (METAL MIN2)

• When The Lights Go Down (2007 - live)
• The Tall Ships (2008)
• This Is Japan (2010 - live)
• It Happened One Night (2011 - live)
• Map of the Past (2012)

• A Forest of Fey (2014)^[12][13]

• Please Come Home (2015)
• The Big Dream (2017)
• Under Stars (2019)
• Feelings Are Good (2020)
• A Model Life (2022)

• Con Brio (2018)
• Aviation (2020)
• The Penrose Triangle (2021)
• Thru The Lens (2024)

• Atmospherics (2021 - EP)

• Transmutation (2025)

• The Nostalgia Factory (2016 - EP)