BBC Radio Presenter early breakfast presenter Gemma Cairney is in the Offbeat Studio on Wednesday 11th November 2020, interviewing artists (still to be announced) over Zoom.

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.

Offbeat studio owners Kirsty & Iain McKinna own project, Harmonic Overdrive, have completed their album of the same name which is now being mastered by Menno at Ayaic.com for release in 2021.

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.

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.

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?)

Author Ben McPherson has written a cracker of a novel loosely based on the Oyata Island massacre. Scots born Ben lives in Norway. The book is published by Harper Collins. The Audio Book is narrated by Steve Worsley.

Calista McGillivray, from near Blairgowrie is healer, a visionary and a best selling Hay House Author. She was in the Offbeat Studio recording her first Audio Book of her new work, The Female Archangels.

Ian Rankin reads an extract from Lord Of The Flies by William Golding for BBC Radio 3. Produced by Camellia Sinclair at BBC Bristol. Ian also narrates a short essay about the book too as a precursor to the extract from this classic novel.

We are delighted to be commissioned to record our second Audio book with World famous publishers Canongate Books. The book is entitled The Red Red Snow by author Caro Ramsay. It will be narrated by James McPherson.

Offbeat has recorded the audio guide for the Charles II Royal Collection at Holyrood palace with Narrator Scott Noble for Voquent. This week we have added the final touches to the programme which will be running from Spring 2020 for the rest of this year.

Emmerdale and Holby City star Gemma Oaten is in the studio recording a Voice Over for a TV series with Strictly Come Dancing star Dr Ranjit Singh for Pedwar Productions.