It began as a partnership between Rubber and Black Crow Records manager Geoff Heslop, Scottish singer and songwriter Dick Gaughan,[1] and the two partners in CM records, Dave Bulmer and Neil Sharpley.
Built and designed by Heslop and Gaughan, they had in addition the talent of engineer Mickey Sweeney to call upon, as well as musicians such as Rod Clements,[2] Chuck Fleming, Paul Flush and Paul Smith and Dire Straits' keyboards player Alan Clark.
The studio was in the Old School and featured a large acoustic space linked by a huge window to the control room.
The rooms were filled with natural light which was always a plus for musicians who preferred it to the black holes that they usually had to record in.
Among the clients were Kathryn Tickell[3] (Kathryn Tickell Band, Signs, The Gathering), Ribbon Road (The Mortgaged Heart), Clan Alba, Rod Clements, Joe Hutton, Alistair Anderson, Simon Thoumire, Catriona MacDonald and many others.