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August 2016

August is usually a quieter month with everyone attempting to chill out a bit in the sunshine but we still managed a pretty full diary!

Silvertip Films came in to record their vlog and we enjoyed showing them around and making their presenter Jess very dizzy on the turntable! You can see the vlog here https://youtu.be/1X6hnDQBxjg

Next up we had MOI Global in to film an online security video with the talented Johan Bjorklund flexing his DOP muscles. We can’t divulge too much on this one yet as the campaign hasn’t gone live at time of writing but we’ll update in due course...

Colour of Noise were back in the cove mid August (well Matt and Bruce at least), this time to film and record a Zeppelin cover. We had our young recruits in to assist with haze and lighting and gave them free reign to set the look for the shoot. We think they did a pretty awesome job! Track to be released soon, we’ll post updates when we have them.

We were contacted by The Morris Minor Centre to take a few shots of a particularly large van frame for their website and a magazine article. Graham brought the frame in and we got talking about some particularly cool pedal cars he’s making...more news soon!

Rounding off the month we had a coupe of vehicle shoots. First up was a van shoot with a difference. Neva Consultants fit out the inside of vans so we were photographing the inside to be made into wrap for the outside. See below, you’ll get the picture ;-) Great to be working with our neighbours Bea-utiful Design and Print again who did the wrap on this vehicle.

We had a Mercedes SL 320 in for the Gun Hill Treatment and as well as our collection of straight vehicle shots we threw a little wide angle lens action at it too.

A surprise bank holiday visit from The GB Sexpert and our kitchen wall is now adorned with a few tips! Rebecca has a new book out, 101 Sex Tips, for more info visit her website... http://www.thegreatbritishsexpert.co.uk

Gun Hill Studios took to the air for our local airstrip (yes folks, you can fly in by plane or helicopter to Deanland Airfield, just a 2 minute drive from the studio) and put together a series of images for Flight Sport Aviation’s new website. 

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July 2016

A DB3 and a V8 Series III Spec came into the studio this month courtesy of The Aston Man. We are commissioned to take photographs of every Aston for sale through The Aston Man and as well as the straight informative shots we are often asked to provide some artistic takes on the vehicle too. Each car has its own personality and dictates a little the style in which it wants to be photographed. This is why we like to take the time to “be” with the vehicle for a little while and never approach two cars in the same way. 

Lighting is a key feature of every shoot. There is always a decision to be made on the best light source for the end result we have in mind. Often we look to our extensive Profoto flash range for product shoots but for cars we usually turn to our 30k of tungsten and ‘paint’ with the light to accentuate the lines and curves of the vehicle. It’s often hard to check an image on the small screen on the back of your camera so shooting tethered is a great way to review a shot and check that you’re happy with the result before moving on. 

This month saw another trampoline shoot and we couldn’t resist having a go ourselves ahead of the video shoot booked in for September. 

In a break from cars and trampolines we welcomed Coneyl Jay (@coneyljay) into the studio for a bridal jewellery shoot. Beautiful couture was delivered and hung up ready to dress the model. Jewellers Hockley Mint (@Hockley_Mint) provided a stunning array to be captured and Coneyl went to work ably assisted by his stylist wife, mua Queen G (@QGMakeUp) and hair stylist Miss Christina (@christinehairup). Hockley Mint went on to win Best Bridal Collection of the Year. Congratulations!

And last but not least, our annual visit to the Silverstone Classic rounded off the month nicely! We met up with lots of familiar faces including Ant Anstead trackside fresh from filming for the new series of ‘For the Love of Cars’. Mike’s Muscle Cars brought along a massive American Classic and it was great to see Mike Brewer on the Discovery stage talking through some of the cars they’d had on Wheeler Dealers. Much racing and music was enjoyed and we can’t wait for next year!

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June 2016

We kicked off the month with a networking event in the cove in association with the Sussex Film Office. Great to welcome other industry professionals into the cove for a chat and to show the many uses of our studio. There is a wealth of talent in the South and with access often being easier than trying to travel across London, we are seeing more and more big companies using studios outside of the city. Guests of honour included Cora and her associated prosthetics from The Hallow movie.

One of our regular clients, GForces, brought the new Mazda MX5 RF model into the studio for a top secret shoot ahead of full production. This is a stunning car, can’t wait to see them out and about on the roads in 2017. We can’t unfortunately share any images of the vehicle itself but here’s one of Rupert in full photography mode on the shoot.

The Aston Man was back with a new run of cars throughout June and July and this Virage was the first to come into the studio. Each of these Astons are unique and all present their challenges due to their handmade nature!

Cars complete for the month we moved onto the music sessions again. 

We’d had Colour of Noise in to film their single ‘Can you hear me’ back in February and we could see the potential for some really special unplugged style sessions. Bruce and Matt came in as a two piece rather than the whole band and we settled in to a three song ‘stripped back’ afternoon of recording and filming using the incredible acoustic of the infinity cove. Bruce’s playing of his twelve string Danelectro and Matt’s bluesy rock vocal sound incredible together and the results and response to the individual songs (’Head on’, ‘Medicine Man’ and ‘Can’t take it with you’) has been fantastic. You can find them via the Colour of Noise pages on YouTube and Facebook.

Next music session in was with punk band Deadlock. This again was another test for the Presonus kit. We brought in some youngsters for a bit of work experience and the shoot went smoothly :-D

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May 2016

So...Emma discovered that leaning backwards to sit down is not advisable on roller boots...

but work continued as usual, even if the DIY was delayed a few months thanks to a well broken wrist!

All that aside, we started the month with a couple of vehicles, the first being the blue Mustang from Drive Wild Horses. Photography completed we updated his website to include the new steeds! Check out www.drivewildhorses.com

Time for the unveiling of the new Hesketh Sonnet just ahead of the TT and goodness me is it a beauty! Still retaining the classic Hesketh shape, the new Sonnet is resplendent in polished chrome and leather. Quite a style change from the 24. The very first people outside of Hesketh to see the new Sonnet, we spent a day with the bike creating photo assets for Hesketh to help with the launch and subsequent press interest. 

Although we don’t yet know the production run numbers yet we’re sure to hear more news from Hesketh over the next half of the year.  

Moving on into the latter half of the month we were into a run of music. Currently undergoing some serious testing and promotion for Presonus, we wanted to thoroughly test the RM32ai and the CS18ai with a number of live recording sessions. The first of these was smooth Dub Reggae band DubMarta who also added a little Native Instruments Maschine action into the mix. 

First full on band session under its belt and the RM32 was performing well. Time to test it with a 12 piece...

We were thrilled to welcome some of the best musicians the UK has to offer into the cove in their Rum Band lineup. This live from the cove session was rocking with a small invited audience enjoying the vibrant energy of these outstanding musicians.

Full tracks from these sessions will be available in due course...

Music complete for the month, furniture specialist and lecturer Marc Fish brought his students back into the cove for his regular end of project photo shoot. His creations are beautifully innovative, see http://www.marcfish.co.uk for more information. 

Another month of cars and music coming up in June. I’m starting to notice a pattern... ;-)

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Springing in, out and all about

April stated off loud to say the least with rock / punk / metal drummer Robin Guy let loose in the cove with his kit. We’ve been test driving some desks for Presonus, mainly testing the RM32Ai mixer and audio interface. Both as a stand alone device and with its companion mixer control surface the CS18Ai

We wanted to properly put them through their paces in real world situations so we’ll be using them to record a number of sessions. With Rupert’s experience of recording in large ambient rooms such as Abbey Road and Air Studios we thought we would test them to the max in the 10mx 10m infinity Cove here at Gun Hill Studios’ base camp.

More Presonus updates in later blogs, we may even dedicate one to the desks but we’ve discovered from this session that you can’t leave a drummer alone for a second...Robin was up on the deck between takes customising our in house drum kit with a hack saw...

A last minute phone call from photographer Tom Gidden saw RM Sotheby’s back in the studio with a full film crew and a stunning Ferrari 275. There’s a show in production looking at the internal workings of the auction houses and RM Sotheby’s in particular. They spent most of the day at the studio capturing the car and looking at how the images for the catalogues are captured. Rupert got his trumpet out and treated them to some Ferrari inspired horn too.

The Syd Arthur Band spent a couple of days filming videos for their latest album. The theme was very bright orange and it looked great against the stark white of the cove. Looking forward to seeing more from them and of course seeing the completed videos!

Rupert and Emma took a trip up to Pinewood for Creative England’s networking event and thought it would be rude to go all that way without dropping in on Mike’s Muscle Cars and Evanta. Mark treated us to some excellent pizzas in the office and we had a tour round the workshop checking out all the enormous American cars. 

We also found Mike Brewer’s beautiful blue Porsche nonchalantly hanging out with the big boys!  

Andrea took on some particularly difficult industrial technology for Inspection Technologies. Anyone who has ever been involved in industrial photography will know just how much time it takes to set up each shot and what attention to detail is required. Needless to say the client was extremely pleased with the outcome. We filmed an instructional video too for Inspection Technologies and put the vocal booth to work for the voiceover. 

We popped over to World Aero to take a few pictures for their press releases on some exciting developments. Never one to do anything by half, Andrea got everyone fully involved with some fun pictures of the team!

The very lovely James Mann brought a couple of stunning vehicles into the cove to shoot towards the end of last month and we look forward to having him back in. We enjoyed watching him capture images for his next book before he shot off for Italy for his next engagement.

Another Mustang from Drive Wild Horses graced the cove with the blue Mustang due in for its close-ups in May. It has been a real pleasure to bring these Mustangs into the cove with Niall and to help him create the public image for his thriving business. 

Media Day at Silverstone in preparation for the Silverstone Classic proved to be a big success with Freddie Hunt in attendance ahead for the James Hunt exhibition at the Classic in July. The team were all over the racing action as you can imagine!

More to come next month....

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March 2016

Back to back events at the end of February and the beginning of March had us in Stoneleigh Park for Race Retro and then back at the NEC for the Practical Classics Restoration Show. Two shows with very different vibes and a whole host of interesting and unique displays. As official photographers for both shows we had unprecedented access to all areas including the awards ceremony for the car clubs at the PC Resto show where Mike Brewer continues to impress us with his dedication to his work, having time for everyone that comes up to him for a chat or for a photo and fighting the jet lag to pull long days and nights to honour his commitments. Mike Brewer we salute you!

In between the two shows we were flat out in the studio again, fitting in an Aston Martin shoot, an interview with Rebelhead Entrepreneurs and a trampoline shoot (they were massive trampolines!).

We headed back up to the NEC for the Photography Show, caught up with the lovely Toby from Fotospeed for a selfie and had a good look at all the latest offerings from all the suppliers. 

Back in the cove for a Mercedes shoot for Danny Cobbs where we wrestled a little with the hard top - these cars all have their idiosyncrasies - but it was well worth it to reveal the bright red interior.

We rounded off the month with another horror movie, this time shooting some car interior dialogue sequences and a very spooky pram. Keep your eyes peeled for The Harbour Movie produced by Reel King Media. Here’s the crew hard at work in the studio. 

Next up, April!

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Dancing and chatting into 2016

It’s nearly the end of February already and we’ve been very busy in the cove with music and cove torques! 

Burgess Furniture and Simon Eldon were in again at the start of January photographing for their new catalogue. The lorry arrived with lots of exciting boxes. Really impressed at their new range of brightly coloured tub style chairs.

Andy from Good Bits brought his Honda along with his Ducati and Laverda for a cove torque and to film a promo for Good Bits. The final edit will soon be available on YouTube. Andy’s Honda (a resurrection of a 1970s racing Honda), ridden by Rob Wittey, was extremely successful last year and he’s in the process of building three more (one already finished) to be sold this year. 

We were honoured with a visit from the lovely Andrea Seed of Poppyseed Media. Andrea reported how pleased they were with the success of last year’s NEC Classic Motor Show coverage that we’re back again this year to cover the 2016 show.  We’ll also be the official photographers for the PC Resto show in March. Whilst we had Andrea in the cove we took the opportunity to have a chat on camera with her about her passion for motor events and lego! YouTube video up soon...

So along with all the chatting we’ve also had the pleasure of some music in the cove! Colour of Noise chose to shoot their latest video for the single “Can you hear me?” on the turntable so we had Alex in from Verri Media shooting for the day. Check out the finished product here...

Also in for a video shoot were punk rock band Deadlock. We broke out the green screen for this one and the chaps enjoyed a great afternoon filming in the cove. Video will be available on completion of their album. Oh and thanks for the cinnamon buns!

Rounding off the music in February was CMP Studios with their new product “The Box that Rox”. This is a karaoke trailer that gives you all the confidence of singing in the car or shower by yourself but with an audience on the outside...oh I’ll let Tom explain it better once the promo is up and running! We welcomed the Little Beer Bou back to serve drinks and much singing and laughing was had by all! For entertainment at a party, wedding or event I can’t recommend this highly enough.

So as February draws to a close it’s all go on the motor front again with an Aston in on Monday after a weekend at Race Retro photographing everything there is on show! See you again in March....

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Jingle all the way

December started with a bang, fresh out of the NEC Classic Motor Show and straight into a Mazda marathon with GForces. The whole fleet were delivered on the Sunday and our studio valet Tim from BJM Valeting got to work on the first three in preparation for the start of the shoot on Monday. Martin from GForces had prepped us fully in advance and worked closely with Rupert on the shot list. The Six Bells sustained us with their fine lunches throughout the shoot and everything progressed like clockwork. 

After the 8 day shoot with GForces and Mazda we went straight into more Astons and a rather special Porsche 911, all for Byron International / All Aston Martin. 

Then saw the return to the studio of two Hesketh 24s. Now in full production and with a few minor adjustments along the way it was great to see the completely finished product in two different colour schemes. Footage of these bikes to be published soon. 

Coming up to Christmas now and we welcomed The Conspiritors in for a rehearsal prior to their Christmas gig with Robin Guy giving the drums some stick (get it?!…groan…). Director Corin Hardy back on vocals in a rare moment of down time after The Hallow’s cinema release - the most beautiful horror we’ve seen in a long time and we recommend that you see it as soon as possible! 

Final job before a day off was photographing the Tina Turner Experience to update their head shots with make up artist Kitty Boo and her assistant Louise on hand to make sure everyone was camera ready. Andrea worked her magic behind the camera again getting the girls to relax in moments. 

I think that Christmas must have happened for a day or two and then straight back to it with some video shoots for Hazardous Funk. Big thanks to Ingrid of Fine to Fabulous for her airbrushing skills, we couldn’t have done it without you! Also big thanks to Niall of Drive Wild Horses for bringing his burgundy Mustang in for day two of shooting for Tony Rico to look menacing behind the wheel. 

Looking forward to a packed January! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

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November in a nutshell

EThe Jaguara remained in the cove after the Firle Hill Climb film night and we had a very nice couple of days working on this and an MX5 Concept Sportster brought in by Gareth of the MX5 Restorer, a car he has long held close to his heart and has now built from the ground up.

RM Sotheby’s contacted us needing a special place to shoot a stunning Ferrari 212 (Emma’s personal favourite car of the year!) for its upcoming sale. We welcomed them in along with their photographer Tom Gidden and had an enjoyable day. A special mention here goes to Carlos of Braggatto Prestige who transports for RM Sotheby’s amongst others and who has re-designed his transporter to make it infinitely more practical. We were very impressed. If you would like a little overview of the day check out our behind the scenes video.

Marc Fish brought his students in to have their projects photographed by Tony Rogers and the studio was full of innovative design and expert craftsmanship. For more information on his furniture courses please click through to his website.

http://www.marcfish.co.uk

Throughout November we photographed a number of Aston Martins - followers of our social media will no doubt already be aware of this! Rupert can never resist a little trumpet serenade to get him in the mood for the Aston photography and we can never resist creeping up on him for a cheeky phone vid! See Facebook or Twitter....

The end of November brought us the tiredest feet of our lives as the official photographers for The Classic Motor Show at the Birmingham NEC. The two Andreas (below) are smiling through the pain ;-)

Despite the running around we had a fantastic time photographing and filming every aspect of this event and the staff and the organisers couldn’t have been more helpful. On our return to base camp, after the flurry of editing and delivering we thought it would be a silly idea to have a couple of days off and flew straight into the busiest December ever!

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Film Night!

Friday 23rd October saw the first film night held at our new premises. It had been a dry day which came as quite a relief to the owners of the open top cars that came into the studio to be put on display. Our thanks go out to Bob Appleby who brought his Lotus 7 over and also to St John for trailering the Jaguara Racing car all the way from Southampton to take pride of place in the cove.

In addition to the two cars, we thought it only right to display a selection of motorbikes too so Mark from Reverb Motorcycles and his friend Andy brought along a Honda CB750 FII, a brat custom from 1978 now named ‘Rat Bat Blue’, a Honda CR750 - winner of the 2015 classic F750 and 1300 Multi-cylinder championships - and finally the incredibly rare Suzuki XR41 GS1000R F1 (there are only 3 in existence and this one was raced by Barry Sheen).

We had brought in the Little Beer Boutique with their fabulous horse box bar to provide the all important refreshments for the evening and stocked it with wine from Hailsham cellars and the branded Firle Hill Climb wine as well as the zesty and refreshing pale ale from the Gun Brewery.

Prestige Paintworks provided us with stacks of e-type tyres which worked marvellously with wooden trays on top as handy tables. 

The scene was now set and before we knew it we had a studio packed out with Hill Climbers and other specially invited guests. Chatting and mingling was in full swing by the time we put on our first short of the night...Rupert’s Motorbike Crash! Commentated by Rupert himself, the audience caught their breath, laughed, commiserated and applauded the tenacity of a man determined to get to the hill climb. 

A short break and a chat from Rob Bryant the Hill Climb organiser then lead us into the main feature. We’d shot from all areas on the hill and in the paddock and it was edited together into a 12 minute flavour of engine noise, speed, audience appreciation and many many wonderful cars.

The film will be available in due course on DVD and Blu-Ray. In the meantime all the pictures are still available at https://gunhillstudios.smugmug.com/Firle-Hill-Climb

A big thank you must also go to our wonderful events team Rachael and Claire who put in sterling work behind the bar and out front collecting glasses and taking names and generally keeping the place looking tidy.

All in all a very successful evening and we can’t wait to host another film night!

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It’s raining cars

Rounding off our week of the Bienville Legacy in residence was a wonderful trip to the Goodwood Revival. It was a great chance to catch up with Andrea from Poppyseed and the NEC Motor show gang. We are proud to announce that Gun Hill Studios are the official photographers at this years NEC Motor show so we’re looking forward to bringing you all the footage from that as it happens in November.

The week after Goodwood saw the studio packed out with chairs again for the Burgess Furniture shoot as well as GForces back in the house with yet another car.

Then saw this year’s trip to Sywell Pistons and Props, much action was shot, more links to galleries in due course....

Following on from Sywell it’s been Aston after Aston followed by...Mustangs! We’ve had the pleasure of shooting a V8 Volante for Byron International and a partly restored DB 2/4 with an incredible paint job courtesy of Prestige Paintworks. 

Drive Wild Horses brought us two of their Mustangs for a photo shoot. They have a selection of American Cars for hire as self drive vehicles and boy have they restored them beautifully. The interiors on these cars were immaculate! We look forward to bringing you a gallery of the whole shoot soon...

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From Bienville with love

What started as a trip to the pub after Salon Prive ended with an overnight stay in Gerrards Cross and a fantastic meal with our Bienville friends. We were thrilled when they suggested they leave their stunning bike with us for four days instead of just the one.

We decided that The Six Bells on a Sunday lunchtime was the perfect place to get some opinions on The Bienville before it came into the studio and we weren’t disappointed. Thanks to some sunny weather the car park was full of motorbikes and the riders all crowded around to stare and chat and take photos of what is undeniably a work of art. Opinions were divided, discussions were had but mostly there was much appreciation for the craftsmanship.

Then started four days and nights of work with the bike in the cove. She has been photographed, filmed, spun, photographed some more, admired, stroked, filmed again and we didn’t really want to let her go when Thursday came around!

We had arranged for Toby from Fotospeed to bring along a Canon large format printer to demonstrate the beauty of printing straight from the camera. Josh from Canon also joined him to see this unique demonstration live in the studio.

The Bienville Legacy is a journey through time and as a homage to this we chose to let the guys behind this machine be involved in creating an image based on a technique that Picasso used of light painting their vehicle. The results were incredible and we were proud to present them with the printed image at the end of the shoot.

Looking forward to seeing The Bienville Legacy at the new Pagani showroom in London in the next few weeks when we meet up with the team again at the Ace Cafe sometime in October.

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Bigger is better

So here we are three weeks after opening the new studio and unbelievably this is the first time we’ve had a chance to get on with some blogging. Busy is an understatement and of course there are still lots of jobs that need finishing off as there always is with a new build but we’ve had a constant stream of clients in since 24th August.

The Business Creative were the first to sample the new larger space with our 24kw of tungsten downlight and had a successful couple of days shooting for their new range of teaching videos for kids. 

Meetings followed for the rest of the week until the return of Attaboy TV filming the reveals for the current series of Wheeler Dealers. Great to have some cars on the new 5m diameter turntable! 

Next it was time for a team outing to Salon Prive to take in the stunning array of cars (and boats?!) and to catch up with our friends Jim and Scott who had brought the Bienville Legacy to the show. More on that in our next blog...

Most of the following week was spent with the Bienville but we also enjoyed a white Mazda MX5 Concept Sportster that was in for a magazine shoot courtesy of Gareth The MX5 Restorer. This was the first opportunity we’d had to get down to some work in the black end of the studio, an area that allows for moodier arty shots. 

As Friday came around it was Goodwood Revival time and we buzzed up there for an afternoon / evening to see what was going on. We met up with Andrea from Poppyseed Media, Emma from Luna Creative, Claire from Clarion Events and Ant Anstead in the Doom Bar in the evening to enjoy some music and much entertainment from assembled audience!

Much editing ensued over the weekend with a gig thrown in for good measure and here we are at Monday again! How did that happen??

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Last week in pictures

The bigger and better Gun Hill Studios is now up and running, here’s a little look back at the final week of building...

Monday 17th August...morning...plastering the lower curves on the side

Monday 17th August...evening...first bit of paint goes on the walls! An exciting moment!

Tuesday 18th August was a slightly frustrating day with not a lot going on whilst lots of drying took place.

Wednesday 19th August things were picking up again, the plasterers were back tackling the tricky corner pieces.

Thursday 20th August and there seems to be an awful lot to do. Electricians were in hanging our space lights and getting our dimmer panel wired up.

More screed and latex down on the floor to complete the smooth cove to floor transition...

Friday 21st August and the painting continues...in fact it’s never ending! Turntable primed and the infinite space is starting to become, well, infinite! Our dressing room, kitchen and toilet all had their latex levelling screed this morning and this afternoon had their vinyl and carpet put down.

Saturday 22nd August, space lights are hung, floating ceiling frame is in place and we’re still painting....meanwhile in other areas of the studio a kitchen is being fitted!

Sunday 23rd August and it’s the final countdown, we’re open tomorrow! The studio is a hive of activity, more plumbing, more - yes you guessed it - painting and a lot of tidying and dressing of the place.

And finally, after painting themselves to the door, Rupert and Andrea get to go home somewhere around 2am...

But here we have it, from this...

to this...

in just 5 weeks. 

We have dug out, sunk turntables, screeded 200 square metres, built a 10m wide x 10m deep x 5m high infinite cove, re-wired, built dressing room and kitchen and painted until our blisters had blisters and now we’re...

...OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

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Building continues

It’s now one week until we open and the building is progressing rapidly. Yesterday was very exciting watching the curves being laid.

Emma has been buried in flat pack kitchen hell, prepping all the units so they can just be popped into place once the kitchen has been painted. Fortunately she was ably assisted by little people on summer holidays who sorted everything into piles.

Our builders are still hard at it today (yes on a Sunday folks!) so that the final plastering can take place tomorrow and then the epic painting begins. Oh yes, this will be painting on a grand scale!

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Getting plastered

Ordinarily this would involve a lot of alcohol but in this particular case it involves men on stilts and leaning out of a scissor lift.

A full crew from Osborne Plastering took over the cove with what seemed to be a truck load of plaster and bags of energy. The cove is a daunting huge expanse but it seemed to be no problem and we’re so impressed with the finish.

With the plasterers working flat out in the infinity cove, our tame aluminium welder set to work at the other end reconstructing our floating ceiling. 

Framework is now complete ready for the electric winches to be installed by Enlightened Engineering next week when we can then cover the frame with the diffusing cloth.

Quiet day today ready for a weekend of activity!

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Cove Continued...

So here we are a week and a half away from opening and things are moving on a pace. Totally level floors in both shooting areas, awaiting a good sweep and a lot of paint once they’ve dried out properly. Having put the screed down in the cove first this will be completely finished and ready to rock over the next week.

With plasterers due to arrive tomorrow to plaster the flat sections of the cove walls the builder chaps set about getting our kitchen and dressing room / vocal booth built. Kitchen should also arrive tomorrow so there’s just the little matter of getting that installed and plumbed in too.

The curve supports are all ready for Friday when the curve should be properly fixed for plastering.

And perhaps the thing I’m most excited about is the power possibilities now we have three phase on tap!

It’s the little things that count! ;-P