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Alchemy Soho move to Smithfields
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 28 October 2009
Sound recording mastering company Alchemy Soho have re-located to new premises in the Smithfields area of London, which isn’t Soho at all. The move comes a year after the company went into administration, and its management hope it will help put a period of uncertainty behind it.
The company decided to leave its old premises in the Centrepoint tower next to Tottenham Court Road mainly because of a substantial rent increase, but also because noise from renovation work in the building, not to mention disruption from the new Crossrail station set to be built across the road, caused too much noise and hassle.
Confirming the move, the company’s Barry Grint told Music Week: “[Noisy renovations] combined with a 75% rent increase and the start of major works on the Crossrail project, forced our hand. We could not realistically have continued to run a viable studio operation out of Centrepoint. We had been searching for suitable premises for several months and checked out many possibilities before settling on where you find us today. It’s a good central location and we have all our facilities on one floor”.
