Friday 19 February 2010

With an assortment of the great and the good - McCartney, Lloyd Webber, the National Trust - all stepping up to the plate to offer to save Abbey Road studios, I wonder if it's not unconnected that it took them nearly a year (327 days to be exact) to chase up a cheque of mine that got lost, relating to a memorable session in the hallowed Studio 2 last February. I think EMI's credit control facility is in India, so maybe the cheque got lost en route there. But if it takes them a year to even think about chasing invoices, no wonder EMI wants rid of the studios. 

Only a decade ago the classical music industry in the UK and its related businesses like film scoring were still seen as amongst the strongest in the world. Already Abbey Road is being considered as a museum.

I spent part of this afternoon trimming and normalising samples which consisted mostly of DG and Chris making silly noises. But some of them might prove useful.