Kate Nash, Golden Silvers, Rumblestrips, Stereophonics

Recent Visitors to RAK Studios

Studio 1

The Fray recorded tracks for a Q magazine special

Noah and the Whale recorded what will be their new album ‘First days of spring’ with Emery Dobyns, it is due for release on the 31^st August by Vertigo records.

http://www.noahandthewhale.com/FDOS.html

Ed Hardcourt….

Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh came to RAK to record strings for a new project entitled The Duckworth Lewis Method. An entire album dedicated to the glorious game known as Cricket.

Pixie Lott Showcase

Razorlight – Mercury Records

Ian Brown – Polydor records, producer Dave McCraken

Grinderman – Mute records

Stereophonics came to RAK for a few weeks with Jim Abbiss to add more parts and vocals for what will be their next album. Loverly guys, Kelly twitter – ‘I just gave the receptionist at the studio one of our guitars to play, cos he wants to buy one and is bored! KJ x

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Palmona Faith – Sony/BMG

Steve Fitzmorris

Oi Va Voi set up and played a stunning showcase for various radio producers and programmers

Baaba Maal – Palm Pictures

Studio 2

Gallows finished off various parts for their highly acclaimed new album ‘Grey Britten’

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Rumblestrips recorded ‘Welcome to the walk alone’ with Mark Ronson producing and Richard Woodcraft assisting.

Florence and the machine string session.

XL Recordings act The Golden Silvers tracked their new album ‘True Romance’ with producer Lexx. RAK publishing was ecstatic to finally sign them after a 6-month chase and negotiation.

Hero – Beat Route – Elliot Randall

Zimbabwean artist Netsayi recorded and mixed the bulk of her album with Bacon and Quarnby at RAK studios 2, 3 and 4 for World Connect records.

Fibes on Fibes – Kim Wilde

RAK Publishing writer David Saw did a number of collaborations during may and june including Australian artist Sarah Archer, Marley Harwood and Lotti Mullen.

Bernard Butler returned to RAK to produce Supervision artist Kate Jackson and Fiction Records Kate Nash.

Studio 3

Swimming Pool – Global Music Publishing

Studio 3 had a lick of paint in January 09’

Rumble strips album “Welcome to the walk alone’ produced by Mark Ronson and engineered by Richard Woodcraft soon to be  released on Island Records.

Beverly Knight recorded 5 tracks to be release on her own label. Notable collaborations came from Chaka Khan and Robin Gibb. Terry Lewis (Jam and Lewis) spent the weekend in studio 4 with her hanging out !

Fiction Plane…..Produced by Paul Corkette

The Feeling – island records

New artist Lotti Mullen (production deal through Island Records) recorded the David Saw/Ben Taylor song ‘Wicked Way’ recorded and mixed by Tim Goalen.

XL recordings act The Golden Silvers did 3 days of rehearsal in preparation for a number of festival appearances this year including Glastonbury (3 shows) Latitude, Victoria Park and Bestival to name but a few.

Studio 4

Master Shortie

Oi Va Voi

Pandering and the Gold Diggers

Natty

Rumblestrips

La Roux

Apples

Beverley knight

Hero

Fiction Plane

One Eskimo

Gallows, Neil Young, One Night Only, The Hours

Recent visitors to London’s RAK Studios

Studio 1

Vertigo records band One Night Only recorded and mixed their debut album ‘Started A Fire’ with Steve Lillywhite in the producer’s chair. The album has now sold over 100.000 units.
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Kaiser Chiefs completed the recording and mixing of their third album ‘Off with Their Heads’ produced by Mark Ronson
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The Hours recorded what will be the follow up to ‘Narcissus Road with Flood producing. There were some rather special pieces of art lying around during the recording. To have a look click on the following link – thehours.co.uk

Sea Sick Steve recorded vocals with Ruby Tuner for two days, James Morrison was writing and recording new material with Ryan Tedder from One Republic and Colin Elliot (Richard Hawley) recorded strings for Tony Christie.

Show Without Punch recorded eleven tracks with Tim Goalen for what will be the first deal of it’s kind with RAK Publishing.

RAK were very proud to welcome the legend that is Neil Young to the studios. He was in town laying down live versions of songs that have been written whilst on the road.

The Gallows have been recording the follow up to their debut album ‘Orchestra Of Wolves’ with Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine/Shihad)
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Studio 2

Oi Va Voi
Mark Ronson the next bond ???? ‘Never say Never again ‘
Brett Anderson
Mika – writing session
Skint and Demoralized – Mercury Records – Richard Woodcraft
Emmy The Great
Amanda Ghost/ Ian Dench / Rock Nation / Dave McCracken/ Kelly Roland
The Golden Silvers – Lexx – XL Recordings

Studio 3

Karima Francis recorded her debut album with Bacon and Quarnby for Kitchenware/Columbia Records. The album is set for release in early 2009′.

Kate Walsh popped in to record ‘The Look Of Love’ for a Dusty Springfield compilation; the song was produced and mixed by Bacon and Quarnby.

Mercury records band Sergeant recorded with John Leckie.

The Last Shadow Puppets returned to RAK with Richard Woodcraft.

Skint and Demoralized – Produced by David Gledhill

Studio 4

Seth Lakeman
Sergeant
Livan
Rod Stewart
Emit Bloc
Paul Carrack

Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Shakira

An update of who’s been in recently and what they’ve been up to…

STUDIO 1

Two songs for the film “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Shakira produced by Jerry Boys.
Arctic Monkeys shot a video for “Teddy Picker” (see it now on YouTube) – NME Award for Best Video.
Brendon Benson – New album recorded and produced by Gill Norton (Feeder, Maximo Park, Foo Fighters).
Recording for the ITV drama “The Palace”, the score session included strings, brass, piano and more
The Kaiser Chiefs recording material for their next album with Mark Ronson.
Travis recorded material for their new album with Fran Healy in the producer’s chair.

STUDIO 2

Continuing from the December session in Studio 3, Kane & Turner’s new project “The Last Shadow Puppets” produced by James Ford for Domino Records.
Arctic Monkeys were back to record new material with David Ford.
The Kooks recorded an additional acoustic album (entitled ‘RAK’) with producer Mike Crossey.

STUDIO 3

“The Last Shadow Puppets” aka Turner & Kane recorded and mixed tracks for this new spin off project. Produced by James Ford, mixed by RAK’s Richard Woodcraft.
French legend Dick Rivers recorded a new album with Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Quarmby.
Mix session featuring the Klaxons and Rihanna who featured on this year’s Brit Awards Show. Mixed by Richard Woodcraft and produced by James Ford.
Karima Francis recording tracks for her debut album on Kitchenware/SonyBMG, produced by Bacon & Quarmby.

STUDIO 4

Red Light Company mixing tracks with Adrian Bushby.
Steve Appleton mixing his home recordings for SonyBMG.
Undercut mixing tracks for Distiller Records.
Primal Scream remix by James Ford and Richard Woodcraft.