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Oscar Nomination

We are pleased to announce that Sherlock Holmes has been nominated in the 'Best Original Score' category at this years Oscars.

The score was composed by Hans Zimmer and was recorded and mixed in Lyndhurst Hall by AIR Management's Geoff Foster.

Congratulations to all involved.

Dizzee Rascal

Virgin Media and Nokia teamed up with MTV to present an exclusive evening with Dizzee Rascal.

The British Rapper, Song Writer, Producer and Mercury music prize winner played to a small VIP crowd of 300 people in Lyndhurst Hall. The whole performance was filmed and recorded and was broadcast on MTV on Boxing Day. The performance was recorded and mixed by AIR Managements Jon Bailey and tracks are now available to buy from the Nokia music site

Videos of each of the songs performed can be found here

Classical Christmas Number 1

This years classical christmas number one spot is 'Heroes' by The Band of Coldstream Guards.

The Band of the Coldstream Guards is the country's oldest-serving military band and, with an impressive 112-year history they are the oldest continual surviving recording artists in the world. It is the Coldstream Guards that is renowned for performing the theme tune to Dad's Army. Heroes is a collection of epic tunes including "Land Of Hope And Glory", "Where Eagles Dare" and "The Great Escape".

The album was recorded at AIR Studios by AIR Managements Geoff Foster and mastered by AIR Mastering's Ray Staff.

Michael Buble

Michael Bublé, the critically acclaimed, multi-million selling artist performed for one night only on Tuesday 8th December.

Taking place in Lyndhurst Hall, only 200 lucky guests enjoyed a VIP evening and an exclusive performance by Michael Bublé with his very own 16 piece band. This up-close-and-personal evening was his only London gig before his UK tour next May.

Michael established himself as a music phenomenon notching up more than 20 million album sales worldwide! Michael performed a selection of songs from his new album 'Crazy Love', as well as some of his chart hits and a couple of festive numbers.

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel is set to release an orchestral covers album featuring the likes of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Elbow and Bon Iver.

Entitled 'Scratch My Back' the album is described as a "song swap" with a host of "extremely legendary artists" set to cover each other's material.

The orchestral parts for the album were recorded here at AIR studios by AIR Management's Steve Orchard. Gabriel also worked with Bob Ezrin, producer of Lou Reed's Berlin, Pink Floyd's The Wall and Gabriel's self-titled 1977 record. "The songs are not simply covers," collaborator John Metcalfe told BBC 6 Music. "They are major reinterpretations of some famous stuff. It's quite radical."

Other artists covered include the likes of: The Kinks, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Neil Young and Talking Heads.

The album is expected to be released in spring 2010.

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