It is always difficult to say goodbye but sadly at the end of February
2001 the studios will be closing their glass doors for the final time.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our clients for
their business and support over the last few years. It's been great.
With studios like ourselves shutting down all over the place it should
make the studio bookings situation a little easier and hopefully more
profitable for the studios out there that are left! Its all been such
a squeeze over the last few years hasn't it? I wish the remaining
studios the best of luck over the next year. Kick some ass!
I would like to say a thank you to a few special people who have
worked so hard to make Swanyard such a great studio to work in. James
Law (Assistant Manager and part of the comedy duo) Sam Wiltshire (for
having grrrrrrrr!) John Harrison (Top Engineer, warmest person I know)
Wol Ariec (We appreciate all those sleepless nights, but what a way to
catch up with your studies) Gavin Callaghan (unflappable Engineer and
crap footie player, fancy breaking your arm Gavin?) Howard Beck &
Dave Nally (for keeping everything working so well) Nick Kirkland (for
being a Woollyback and awake 24/7) Keith Knowles (for all his support)
Grippa (irrepressible) Rollo Armstrong (for all his business and never
being enticed away, although I know some of you tried to! I know who
you are, I know where you live!) Martin McCorry & Rod Wildman (for
arriving on the first day with broken noses and blackened eyes!) James
Dalton & Ibi Tijani (for knocking over dustbins in corridors, then
hiding and all your hard work) Mel, Raj, Eddie and Sarah(at Champion
Records for their business and long may their success continue) Cheeky
Records (for all their business) Morgan (formerly of Cheeky now at
BMG) All the boys at Dreamhire for proving "service is paramount".
Finally I would like to thank myself Michelle Ward for looking after
the above with no concern for my own sanity! It really has been a
blast and from the Swanyard team we bid you, in the words of Anne
Robinson "Goodbye!"...
Michelle, the Studio Manager, Feb 2001
In June 2007, Faithless left Cheeky/Sony-BMG to "be masters of
their own destiny, to stop churning out hits for radio and get back to
the naive experimental early Faithless days" (quote from BBC
Music News).