ffg is a partnership which was started formally in 1979 by David Pickering Pick and Desmond Devitt. By that time we had already been involved in recording ourselves and other people since about 1973. David's wife Annie is now also a partner. The studio and record company grew out of our early efforts to record ourselves. We acquired a 4-track open reel recorder in 1976 and produced our first commercial recording of another artist, Noel Richards in 1977, in the front room of our cottage in Cornwall. For a while we toyed with calling ourselves 'Front Room Recordings' but settled on Free For Good, which was a fairly accurate picture of our studio rates at the time! The establishment of studio premises in Cheltenham in 1982 resulted in numerous album productions in the 1980's, along with music recording for the Channel 4 series 'Road Dreams'. Studio facilities progressed from 4 to 24 track by the end of the decade. In 1993 the studio moved from Cheltenham to its present location, a converted Cotswold barn. After conversion, it was operational on 1st January 1994, just in time to record Eden Burning's third ffg album 'Mirth & Matter'. During the early 90's we continued to produce albums for our own label, and increasingly for other record companies as well as undertaking composition and production work for TV and radio, along with spoken word recording for major publishing companies. Over the last 10 years we have focussed on providing an audio production facility for a very wide range of clients. At the same time we have come to feel that the promotion and marketing of records is not what we want to concentrate on, and ffg Records has therefore not released new material on its own label for some years. However, the experience we gained is very much at the disposal of clients who want to release their own records. Most years we produce 6-10 full albums, along with masses of smaller projects of very different kinds, from mixing into 5.1 for DVD release, to one-day band demos.