JULY 30, 2025 INTERVIEWS
Adam Fuest: Recording Babyshambles in the Welsh Countryside
With seventeen gold and platinum records to his credit, Adam Fuest's eclectic discography reads like some sort of schizoid iPod run amok. The London- born-and-raised Fuest has worked with a variety of artists over the years, such as Mott the Hoople (engineering for the band at the age of 17), King Sunny Adé, Queen Latifah, Salt-n-Pepa, Big Audio Dynamite and The Cure. Over the years he's been a member of bands such as Hard Rain and Blancmange, acted as chief engineer for three seminal London studios — Orange, Livingston and Beethoven Street — and also served time as Vangelis' personal engineer in the early '80s. A fellow proponent of the "open room" style of recording (working without a traditional, isolated control room), Adam and I met on the Open Room panel at the 2007 TapeOpCon in Tucson. We hit it off and found we had a lot in common. In the late '90s he and his wife, author and music-biz veteran Adele Nozedar, left urban London and moved to the Welsh countryside. They opened Twin Peaks Studio, situated between two huge lake-like reservoirs in the national parklands of Torpantau and nestled in an astoundingly beautiful horseshoe-shaped ridge of mountains. They've since been hosting a steady slew of artists from all over the world. Some recent projects of note include engineering Babyshambles' sprawling 2005 debut album Down In Albion, Simon Falconer's latest and Tara Busch's new release.
