The studios were started by Ray Kinsey, a film director from North London, who branched out into recording talking books for the blind.
He recorded artists such as Sweeney's Men,[2] Pentangle, Iain Matthews and Russ Ballard.
Nick Kinsey bought the studio from Fred Livingston-Hogg an Oxford-based business man who had been involved with the Livingston Hire Group, with the help of Alan Tomkins and Michael Smee, and rebuilt it.
[1] During 1980, Nick Kinsey decided to expand the business and move to an old Church hall in Wood Green and transformed it into a hi-tech studio.
[4] In 2001, Gold bought the company from Boys which enabled most of World Circuit's artists to be record and mix their music at Livingston Studios.