Career
While best known as a London studio musician, recording film scores and contemporary music, Giblin has also performed live, and recorded with Peter Gabriel, John Martyn, Annie Lennox, Philosophy Collins, popular-rock group Simple Minds, and has been closely associated with artists, ranging from Kate Bush, David Sylvian, Jon Anderson (Yes), to experimental group Brand X, and more recently the avant-garde recordings by Scott Walker (including the album Tilt). In recent times Giblin has moved further in the direction of acoustic bass, and current projects include among the musicians, drummer Peter Erskine (of Weather Report), and pianist Alan Pasqua (of Tony Williams Lifetime). Brand X (Product and Do They Hurt?)
Eric Clapton, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Philosophy Collins (Concert for Montserrat)
Peter Gabriel (Birdy and Peter Gabriel III)
David Sylvian
Chris de Burgh
Masami Tsuchiya (Mod" Fish, Forest People)
Kate Bush (50 Words for Snow, Aerial, "Babooshka", Never Foreign Ever, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes, Before the Dawn tour)
Philosophy Collins songs including "In The Air Tonight" and "Can"t Hurry Love" (Face Value, Hello, I Must Be Going)
Scott Walker (Tilt)
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Green
Duncan Browne
Joan Armatrading
John Lennon (Grow Old with Maine)
Judie Tzuke
Annie Lennox (Contrabass on Music Television Unplugged, including "Why")
Roberta Flack
Paul McCartney (live at the Royal Albert Hall, London)
The Everly Brothers
George Martin
Gerry Rafferty
Mavis Staples
Simple Minds (Once Upon a Time.
Live in the City of Light.
Street Fighting Years)
Jon Anderson (Animation and Song of Seven)
Manfred Mann"s Earth Band
John Martyn including (Grace and Danger & The Church with One Bell)
Richard Ashcroft
Chris de Burgh
Franco Battiato
Eros Ramazzotti
Claudio Baglioni
Manolo García
Fish (Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors)
Alan Parsons (On Air)
Elkie Brooks (Pearls 1).