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JULY 10, 2025 INTERVIEWS
Alistair Chant: John Parish, M. Ward, PJ Harvey
In 2001, Alistair Chant's band, Actual Size, were signed by Gut Records and used money from their record deal to build a recording studio in Bristol, UK, which would eventually become Toybox Studios. In 2003, Ali began engineering and producing full time and Toybox started to become a popular local recording studio. Along the way Ali's worked with Gruff Rhys, KT Tunstall, Euros Childs, Rokia Traore, Yann Tiersen, Giant Sand, M. Ward, Seasick Steve, She & Him, PJ Harvey, Mark Ronson, and The Kills plus producers like Flood, Jim Abbiss, Mark Ronson, John Parish, Ben Hillier, John Cornfield, Hugh Padgham Michael H Brauer, and Tim Friese-Greene.