Andrew Hughes, better known as Semothy Jones or Sem for short, is an English songwriter and record producer from Islington, London.

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The earliest releases from Sem were around 2005, a grime instrumental mixtape series called 'Delivery Boy'.

In 2009, Semothy was asked to help promote Timbaland's new Beaterator software in the UK.^[1]

In 2010, Semothy signed a three-year publishing deal with Major Music/BMG Publishing and became part of the Biffco/Biff Stannard songwriting/production team.

Semothy Jones was listed by NME as one of the 'Top 20 Hottest Producers' in October 2010. Some of the other names in the bill were Mark Ronson, Dr Luke, RedOne and Rick Rubin.^[2]

Semothy Jones is the founder of Gain Ctrl, a free youth music project that started early 2014.

Several tracks from the 2014 Maggie Norris directed production 'The Realness' were written by Kath Gotts and produced by Semothy Jones. The show ran over two months later 2014 and received much praise from critics and the press "The production blazes up its grimy streets powered by pure passion.” The Times^[3]

• No. 1 Album Up All Night – US Billboard 200 – Programming
• No. 2 Album Alive Till I'm Dead – UK Albums Chart – Co-writing and production
• No. 5 Single "Just Be Good To Green" – UK Singles Chart – Co-writing and production
• No. 5 Album Hands – UK Albums Chart; No. 5 European Top 100 – Production
• No. 20 Album Gloves – Australian ARIA Albums Chart – Co-writing