Shed Studios was responsible for the production of hundreds of band recordings and a large body of music used for various advertisements and films in Rhodesia, and later in Zimbabwe, from 1975 until 2000. The company "Shed Recording Studios (Pvt) Ltd" (now defunct) began in 1975, as a collaboration between Steve Roskilly, Martin Norris and Neil Thain, all employees of Rhodesia Television. The beginning Initially housed in a converted caravan, the first studio was based on a half inch 8 track Itam 805 tape recorder and series 2 Soundcraft 12:4:2 mixer, mastering onto a Revox A77 Reel to Reel tape recorder. This outfit learned its trade by making a series of live recordings at various music venues around Salisbury, the capital City, but soon found that the uniqueness of the mobile caravan, became more of a restriction than an advantage and a proper studio was seen as essential for progress. Advertising jingles Both Norris and Roskilly were, by now, working full time for Blackberry Productions, a young radio and tv production facility. Blackberry offered the use of their largest studio for a small rental and so the Shed equipment was set up there and the company started making advertising jingles, children's story records, and a few private band recordings. Jingle productions were not new to Rhodesia, but there was a need for more complex multi-tracked productions, and Martin & Steve were quick to respond. After the Blackberry day-job, advertising work was handled late into the evenings. Neil Thain had pulled out fairly early on, moving to Johannesburg and as the volume of advertising work increased, the number of hours available in the evenings soon became insufficient. Mounting pressure for even more studio time by 1979 resulted in the company leasing 380 sq m on the top floor of Park House, Park Street and the business moved into a self-built but purpose-built professional studio premises. Studio 1 was a comparatively large studio, comprising 6m x 6m control rooms and 12m x 8m live room. These were difficult times personally, as Martin Norris had to fulfill his army call-up duties every 6 weeks. This left Roskilly alone in the studio to carry on the business as he fortunately had a 5 year exemption from callup, having only recently arrived in the country from the UK. The new studio's first recordings were for the folk singer and advertising Creative Director Clem Tholet. Tholet's