Congrats to you Grace Hickey, on your win at the 2016 Dolphin awards with "Cactus Flower"! Recorded and mixed at Heaven Recording Studios. It started me thinking how many HRS productions had found success at past Award nights, so here are the ones I remember: The Universal Egg (Best Male Vocal, 2001) Mal Stekhoven-Smith (Best Blues Song, 2001) The Universal Egg (Best Production/ Engineering, 2002) Colin Bullock (Song of the Year, 2006) Mal Goodsmith (Best Folk Song 2006) Mal Goodsmith (Best Blues Song 2006) The Jaywalks (Best Pop Song, 2006) Renae Murray (Best New Recording Talent 2007/8) Renae Murray (Song of the Year 2007/8) Renae Murray (Best Female Vocal 2007/8) Renae Murray (Best Pop Song 2007/8) Shane Miranda (Youth Award, 2009) Grant Lawless (Best World/Reggae 2012) Doot (Best Production/ Engineering, 2015) Matt and Tanya Fisher (Best Rock Song 2015) That's not counting all the nominations... Well done to you all!! Pic of Grace by Adam Hourigan

This year (2019) saw the release of Nat Young's autobiography on Audible audiobooks. Surfers and surfing aficionados worldwide will be enthralled with this fascinating autobiography of Nat Young, arguably one of the world's best surfers and a pioneer of the 'shortboard' style. With short stories, anecdotes and unbelievable adventures with some of surfing's most colourful and well known characters, Nat Young recounts his life from Australia to Hawaii to the Pacific Coast of America and beyond. This audiobook is a must-listen for any surfer! 16.5 hours of audio, recorded and narrated by Paul Agar at Heaven Recording Studios.

The nice folks at the Clarence Valley Review recently ran a great story on the the New Heaven Recording Studios. Thanks go to eminent journo Geoff Helisma! You can read the full story by clicking on the link below (then go to page 7)...