by Jay Garrett stereonet.co.uk 13th November, 2018 After a quick tour of the renowned Olympic Studios just across the river in Barnes and a preview of the new top floor studio that’s in progress, I sat down with legendary sound engineer and producer, Chris Kimsey. If you are trying to place the name, Chris has pretty much worked with anyone that is anyone – or at least became someone. That list includes The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Peter Tosh, Duran Duran, ELP, BB King and, as well as many more, the main reason why we’re here today – Marillion. Due to not keeping an eye out for Festival of Sound schedule updates, unfortunately I missed Chris’s seminar about the work he did on Marillion’s Clutching at Straws album. The follow-up to 1985’s ‘Misplaced Childhood’ it is an album that, for many Marillion fans, symbolises not only the height of the band’s achievements, but also the point at which the cracks started to show that finally saw Fish going solo and the band regrouping to reappear with new frontman, Steve Hogarth. Chris joined Olympic studios as a tea boy before working his way up. His interest in sound recording was ignited after being given a tape recorder as a present from his parents. This interest was later further reinforced by teachers at his school. After reading the sample list of rock and rock n’ roll artists that he has worked with it may come as some of a...