[1][2] During his career, Hedges has worked with an eclectic roster of artists ranging from rock and pop acts such as U2, Dido, Travis, Texas, the Beautiful South, and Everything but the Girl, to cult-indie band the Cooper Temple Clause and classically oriented projects, the Priests and Sarah Brightman.
[9] Hedges returned to the UK in 1969 and was working in Haywards Heath as a squash coach when he was offered a job as a tape op at London's Morgan Studios.
[11][12][10] The desk was originally installed in Abbey Road Studios, and had been used to record The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and John Lennon's single "Imagine".
[12][10] Among the albums recorded there were Lush's Split, Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go (BRIT Award recipient)[13] and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, and Travis' The Man Who (partially).
[18][9][19] Hedges has also worked as part of the musical team for a number of films including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Doom Generation.