On February 19, 2002, “EMI” label released “As If to Nothing”, the second Craig Armstrong album. It was recorded in 2001, and was produced by Craig Armstrong.

Personnel:

• Craig Armstrong – guitar, keyboards, piano, programming, orchestral arrangements, arranger
• Bono – vocal
• Catherine Bott – soprano vocal
• Evan Dando – vocal
• Antye Greie-Fuchs – vocal
• David McAlmont – vocal
• Swati Natekar – vocal
• Wendy Stubbs – vocal
• Mogwai – featured artist
• Ali MacLeod – guitar
• John Parricelli – acoustic and electric guitar
• Simon Chamberlain – piano
• Photek – keyboards, programming, mixing
• Jake Davies – keyboards, programming
• Stephen Hilton – keyboards, arranger, programming
• Richard Norris – keyboards, programming, engineer
• Simon Benson – bass
• Paul Morgan – bass
• Mary Scully – bass
• Chris Laurence – bass
• Paddy Lannigan – bass
• Leon Bosch – bass
• Mike Brittain – bass
• Hanif Khan – tabla
• John Anderson Concert Orchestra – oboe
• Gavyn Wright – orchestra leader
• Rachel Allen – violin
• Mark Berrow – violin
• Dermot Crehan – violin
• Sonia Slany – violin
• Benedict Cruft – violin
• Michael McMenemy – violin
• Alison Kelly – violin
• Eddie Roberts – violin
• Rita Manning – violin
• Rebecca Hirsch – violin
• Simon Fischer – violin
• Antonia Fuchs – violin
• Peter G. Hanson – violin
• Jonathan Evans-Jones – violin
• Iain King – violin
• Patrick Kiernan – violin
• Katherine Shave – violin
• Julian Leaper – violin
• David Woodcock – violin
• Douglas Mackie – violin
• Jackie Shave – violin
• Pauline Lowbury – violin
• Perry Mason – violin
• Warren Zielinski – violin
• Cathy Thompson – violin
• James McLeod – violin
• Maciej Rakowski – violin
• Boguslav Kostecki – violin
• Bill Benham – viola
• Laurence Power – viola
• Kate Musker – viola
• Bruce White – viola
• Robert Smissen – viola
• Timothy Grant – viola
• Katie Wilkinson Khoroshunin – viola
• Peter Lale – viola
• Donald McVay – viola
• Gustav Clarkson – viola
• Ben Chappell – cello
• Anthony Pleeth – cello
• David Daniels – cello
• Tony Lewis – cello
• Frank Schaefer – cello
• Paul Kegg – cello
• Naomi Wright – cello
• Martin Loveday – cello
• Sophie Harris – cello
• Fiona Hibbert – harp
• Andy Findon – flute
• Nina Robertson – flute
• Paul Archibald – trumpet
• Andrew Crowley – trumpet
• Lindsay Shilling – trombone
• Richard Bissill – horn
• Paul Gardham – horn
• Jenny O’Grady – choir, choir coordinator
• Cecilia Weston – conductor
• Paul Badley – choir
• Claire Henry – choir
• Androcew Gray – choir
• Michael Pearn – choir
• David Porter Thomas – choir
• Michael Clarke – choir
• John Bowley – choir
• Sarah Leonard – choir
• Tom Pearce – choir
• Helen Parker – choir
• Mary Carewe – choir
• Rosalind Waters – choir
• Simon Preece – choir
• Michael Dorf – choir
• Simon Grant – choir
• Andrew Gray – choir
• Susan Flannery – choir
• Steven Lindsay – background vocals
• David Donaldson – programming, engineer, mixing
• Geoff Allan – engineer
• Andy Bradfield – mixing
• Rick Guest – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Craig Armstrong, except where noted.

1. Ruthless Gravity
2. Wake Up in New York – Craig Armstrong, Evan Dando
3. Miracle
4. Amber
5. Finding Beauty
6. Waltz – Craig Armstrong, Antye Greie – Fuchs
7. Inhaler
8. Hymn 2
9. Snow
10. Starless II with a sample from “Starless” (King Crimson- Red) – Craig Armstrong, Bill Bruford, David Cross, Robert Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, John Wetton
11. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) – Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.
12. Niente
13. Sea Song
14. Let It Be Love
15. Choral Ending