There are some shortcuts that can be taken, but we didn't take any of them. Kohn: "Anybody who is trying to do this job knows it does not happen overnight, and when it does happen overnight, people often disappear overnight again as well. But it was three years before we had another release on a major record label." It was really educational for us to see somebody go from being unknown to well-known, and we ended up producing one track on her debut album. "In 2006 we worked with Lily Allen, and the next thing she was the biggest thing on the Internet. Reaching this point has, however, been a long road, as Kelleher describes.
Formerly known as State Of The Ark, it is owned by the legendary Terry Britten and was the subject of a 2014 Studio File profile in this magazine.
(You can revisit the original Readerzone profile at Ark RoyalĪt the time of writing, the group that started out in a shed had just moved into one of the most exclusive studios in London. The occasion for this interview is their sixth UK number one, Lewis Capaldi's 'Someone You Loved', which was released in partnership with Live Life Give Life, as part of the charity's campaign to raise awareness of organ donations. The shed didn't quite meet expectations, either, and although they kept the name, the group have worked their way through a number of different spaces.Įventually, however, TMS did make it big, and they are now one of Britain's top pop production teams, with credits including G‑Eazy, Bebe Rexha, Maroon 5, Niall Horan, Dua Lipa, Anne-Marie, Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi, Emeli Sandé, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Little Mix, Jess Glynne, Kelly Clarkson and Sigma. Trying to make it big in music production was, inevitably, tough, and by 2009, TMS were down to a trio, consisting of Tom 'Froe' Barnes, Ben Kohn and Peter 'Merf' Kelleher. Fresh out of school, the six-piece had put together a studio in a garden building, and duly named themselves The Musical Shed. Production crew TMS LDN built their career the hard way - and wrote Lewis Capaldi's smash hit 'Someone You Loved' in an afternoon.īack in July 2002, Sound On Sound's Readerzone series profiled "a six-man business partnership producing hip-hop and garage music for white-label release". TMS LDN are, left to right: Peter 'Merf' Kelleher, Ben Kohn and Tom 'Froe' Barnes.
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