The Audio books just keep coming in. This one is by Lez Graham, a well known dog trainer who has written a highly successful series of The Pet Gun Dog range of books. Lez knows her stuff and this book will be incredibly useful for anyone who wants to know how to train their puppy.

Paranormal specialist Evelyn Hollow was in the Offbeat Studio in February recording the final episode of The Battersea Poltergeist with Danny Robins for BBC Sounds & Bafflegab Productions. 

We are pleased to be recording the next Alan Parks Audio Book for his latest novel The April Dead for Canongate Books. Narrated by Andrew McIntosh and Recorded and produced by Steve Worsley & Iain McKinna

Offbeat has produced an online Video Presentation for the European Chatbot Conference in February 2021 with Sydney Eneremadu & Angus Addlesee.

Mixing and adding some Bass & Guitar parts to this astonishing album by Singer/Songwriter/Keyboard player Richard Davidson is great fun. Offbeat first worked on a remix for Richard back in 2014. Some great Pop, R&B and Dance songs are featured here, beautifully recorded and initially performed by him on his laptop!

Allie’s second album at Offbeat, Wayland’s Blues, is an instrumental album of highly original acoustic and emotive guitar-based compositions, incorporating folk, blues and classical influences, arranged for both solo guitar & multi-musician line-ups. It's all been recorded and mixed and is currently being mastered for release in 2021.

The debut album by Offbeat Records artists Harmonic Overdrive has been completed and is scheduled for its official release on 1/6/21. In it's current pre-release stage the album already reached no1 in the iTunes New Age Chart in December 2021. Featuring the music of Offbeat Studio Owners Kirsty & Iain McKinna.

BBC Radio Presenter early breakfast presenter Gemma Cairney is in the Offbeat Studio on Wednesday 11th November 2020, interviewing various artists over Zoom and produced remotely by Bruce Munro for BBC Radio 6.

Writer and Director Adura Onashile is in the studio with musician and Audio producer Nik Paget Tomlinson recording parts for the forthcoming AR production of Ghosts. Based on Glasgows history of the slave trade. Music and Production by Niroshini Thumbar

The B - aka Brian Lee recorded his song Bad Poetry in the Offbeat studio on 2nd September with Producer Iain McKinna and three weeks later it reached no1 in the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart.

We are very pleased to be recording the audio book for Christopher Harding's book The Japanese - A History In 20 Lives for Penguin Random House. Chris is also narrating the book during sessions in September 2020.

Recording a Voice over for Voquent / Scottish Voice Overs with Mareesa Keltie (also vocalist with The Eves). Its for a short film for Tobermory Gin. Having worked now for Whisky, Vodka, Red Bull and Gin its a wonder we can still stand up here at the studio 🙂

Janis reads her novel The Watchmakers Wife based on the life of her Grandmother Joanna Lockhart. The book is set in early 20th Century Edinburgh. Janis is a storyteller by trade and does a superb job of voicing her debut Audio Book.

Great to have the Edinburgh International Festival team in the studio today, recording commentary for a forthcoming video about a range of Children of the Festival events to be announced in August.

Nemai Ghosh : A RAY of Light is a moving story of how an ordinary man came to be associated with a giant of Cinema - Satyajit Ray - and became the photo- chronicler  of his creative and personal world for 25 long years until Ray’s demise. The voice over for the film was recorded at Offbeat.
The documentary has been selected for 14 Festivals and has won 4 Awards. 

Even in the lock-down, and in partnership with Bright White in York, we are now producing (pre-Corona) recorded performances of an AR (Augmented Reality) installation for John Knox House in the Royal Mile for Unesco City Of Literature. It will be 'live' later in 2020, (or post Covind 19, sometime this decade...surely?)