Team & Community
We work with engineers and assistants who have the skills and experience to get the best from every studio and our in-house technicians keep the equipment in pristine condition. For our bookings staff, the mantra is “nothing is too much trouble”.
In addition to our four bookable studios, Strongroom is home to a thriving community of record producers, songwriters, managers, labels, publishers and production companies. At the heart of all this is the iconic Strongroom Bar, rounding off the welcoming, musical atmosphere that Strongroom is renowned for worldwide.
To register interest in available long-term let studios and offices, please enquire below.
Team Members
Richard Boote
Founder & Owner
Paul Woolf
Owner & CEO
Jake Murray
Studio manager
Please enjoy our new website. I spent a lot of time on it.
Richard Marshall
Facilities & Occupancies Manager
Moved from Yorkshire at the age of 9 to seek fame and fortune in the Big Smoke. He found neither and now keeps the good ship Strongroom afloat using engineering trickery and relentless optimism. Huzzah!
Matias Duarte
Technical Engineer
Born in 1985. Still breathing.
Barney Herbert
Technical Engineer
"Last of the rock n roll Techs" Legend has it he was discovered being raised by Wolves in forests around Chernobyl. Immune to electric shock.
Drew Bang
Studio Team
drew BANG is an award winning Engineer and Producer, with over 10yrs Experience working with clients such as U2, Royal Blood, Haim, Slaves, Don Broco and more. Starting out at Strongroom as a runner, drew worked his way up to in-house Engineer for Studio 1, before going freelance to concentrate on Production.
Hannes Plattmeier
Studio Team
Hannes is a classically trained producer, mixer and multi-instrumentalist with more than 10yrs experience in the UK and on the continent. Recent endeavours include work with Laetitia Sadier, James, Devendra Banhart, Kurt Wagner, faUSt, Pantha Du Prince, Robert Forster and many more. He’s been part of Strongroom’s engineering roster since 2014.
Grace Banks
Studio Team
"Grace Banks is an award winning composer, engineer and producer with a penchant for DIY electronics, who has toured internationally and recorded as a multi-instrumentalist. She recently engineered tracks on Marika Hackman's critically acclaimed album 'Any Human Friend' as well as the sophomore album from Let's Eat Grandma 'I'm All Ears' (Q Magazine album of the year)."
Ross Fortune
Studio Team
Ross Fortune is an Irish recording engineer based in London. He has engineered for artists including A$AP Rocky, Jarvis Cocker, Ellie Goulding, and Zara Larsson, and holds credits on several UK Top Ten singles including Just You & I by Tom Walker, Play by Jax Jones and Years & Years, Solo by Clean Bandit, and All I Am by Jess Glynne.
Matt Barnes
Studio Team
Matt is a recording & mixing engineer based in London. He began his studio career as an in-house assistant engineer at the famous SARM West Studios in Notting Hill before becoming an in-demand engineer. Matt now engineers at various studios across London including Strongroom, Sarm Music Village, RAK, Westpoint, Warner, Blue Box, and many more.
Fi Roberts
Studio Team
Fi started out as a runner at Strongroom and has since progressed to being a freelance engineer and assistant. She is predominantly based at Strongroom, but has often worked at Red Bull, Urchin and Beethoven Street. Her biggest loves are (a broad range of) jazz, Neo-classical, hip-hop, soul, world, electronic and all the bits in-between
Jess Camilleri
Studio Team
Jess graduated from the Tonmeister course in 2018 and began working as Strongroom's runner that year, ultimately going on to assist for engineers and producers such as Duncan Mills, Danton Supple and Tyler Page.
Taylor Pollock
Studio Team
Taylor graduated from Berklee College of Music and worked at Spotify’s Secret Genius Studios in Nashville as a house engineer. She then went to New York City to assist mastering engineer Andreas Myer. She is now based in London working at Strongroom Studios and as a freelance engineer. She has a love of analogue and vintage gear, and she especially enjoys working with tape.
Max Churchill
Studio Team
Max is a 23-year old engineer originally from the Isle of Wight, now South-London based, working with Urchin, Hackney Road, Saccharin, Goldsmiths Music Studios and more recently Strongroom Studios, gaining invaluable experience and knowledge from all.
Lilian Nuthall
Runner
An aspiring producer and engineer, Lil is excited to learn the ropes from the inside at Strongroom.
Straight out of uni she is hitting the ground running and eagerly training up to take the industry by storm one day.
Josette Joseph
Runner
Josette is a sound engineer and producer in training, who is passionate about all aspects of audio - particularly recording, mixing & sound design. Strongroom has been the perfect environment for her to learn about the inner workings of a studio and develop her craft.
Community
Baxter PR
Baxter PR is a creative, forward-thinking agency that offers a multi-platform PR service to a range of artists, venues, record labels and events.
Archers Mark
Archer’s Mark is a multi-award-winning, fully integrated production studio.
Bella Union
Bella Union is a British independent record label founded in 1997 by Simon Raymonde.
EE Music
eemusic is a team focused on discovering new studio talent and developing new artists.
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones has been happily making noise at Strongroom for a very long time.
Rob Kelly
Rob is a composer and mix engineer. A former director of AIR and Strongroom Studios, he has been based at Strongroom since 2002.
Bella Studio - Iggy B
Based at Strongroom in Shoreditch, Bella Union's in-house studio from Simon Raymonde and producer/engineer Iggy B.
Above Board
Above Board provide record labels and artists the expert resources and services to manage and drive your release campaigns worldwide, through a network of physical and digital partners throughout the globe.
Restless Minds
Restless Minds is a music and artist management company run by Mick Shiner and Jon Vick.
Jane Wilson
Jane practices acupuncture based on traditional diagnostics and has an in-depth knowledge of medicine. Treatments mainly focus on acupuncture, diet and lifestyle advice but individualised and achievable.
Secretly Group
Secretly Group is 3 record labels
and a music publisher representing artists, writers, film makers, producers and comedians. Streaming & sync specialists founded in 1996.
Studios
4 world-class music production studios founded in 1984, offering impeccable sound and stunning visual design.
Bar
An award winning venue specialising in new music, craft beer and organic food, with a spacious, sun trap courtyard.
Strongroom
120-124 Curtain Rd
Hackney, London
EC2A 3SQ
020 7426 5100
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