Big City Secrets

Track listing

Album credits

1. "Big City Secret"
2. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
3. * Roger Beaujolais: vibes
4. * Martyn Barker: treated tubular kit
5. * Simon Edwards: bass
6. * Markus Dravs: keyboards, desert storm & gravel percussion
7. "Mercedes"
8. * Joseph Arthur: harmonica, guitar and vocals
9. * Martyn Barker: drums
10. * Simon Edwards: bass
11. * Markus Dravs: corn horn
12. * Roger Beaujolais: Venetian xylophone
13. * Peter Gabriel: backing vocals
14. * Brian Eno: backing vocals
15. "Mikel K"
16. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
17. * Nigel Eaton: hurdy-gurdy
18. * Martyn Barker: drums
19. * Simon Edwards: bass
20. "Good About Me"
21. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
22. * Martyn Barker: caxixi
23. * Simon Edwards: piano, bass
24. * Markus Dravs: drum programming
25. "Daddy's on Prozac"
26. * Joseph Arthur: vocals, highly-strung bass, guitar
27. * Martyn Barker: drums
28. * Simon Edwards: bass
29. "Marina"
30. * Joseph Arthur: vocals
31. * Martyn Barker: drums
32. * Simon Edwards: bass performance and arrangement
33. * Ashley Slater: trombones
34. "Birthday Card"
35. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
36. * Ron Aslan: drum loop
37. * Markus Dravs: lesley accordion and drum programming
38. * Martyn Barker: military snare
39. * Simon Edwards: coal bass, additional guitars
40. * Nick Plytas: mellotron
41. "Crying Like a Man"
42. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
43. * Ashley Slater: trombone
44. * Martyn Barker: bondage snare
45. * Markus Dravs: low drum and sheet percussion
46. * Simon Edwards: string fossil bass
47. "Porcupine"
48. * Joseph Arthur: guitars and vocals
49. * Martyn Barker: live drums and scaffolphoneum
50. * Simon Edwards: maze bass, sas
51. * Markus Dravs: drum programming
52. "Dessert"
53. * Joseph Arthur: vocals
54. * Martyn Barker: drums
55. * Simon Edwards: bass
56. "Haunted Eyes"
57. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
58. * Martyn Barker: drums, birimbau, cow gong
59. * Simon Edwards: bass, birimbau, melotron and Persian fretless
60. "Bottle of You"
61. * Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
62. * Martyn Barker: percussion
63. * Simon Edwards: filter bass, harmonic missiles

• Produced by Markus Dravs.
• 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 ; Anna Gabriel.
• Paintings and drawings by Joseph Arthur.