I’m Peter Harrison and disk2disc is my firm.
 

I have always been passionate about music: I tried to play the violin until it left me on the grounds of cruelty; then the tuba until it was used as an offensive weapon against me by an insurance salesman, breaking a tooth. I decided that life on the other side of the microphone was probably safer.

The first commercially-released LP I recorded came out in 1965, when I was also doing work for the BBC, MGM, and a major record label - all of which led to my rightly being thrown out of university.

Forced to earn money for food, I had a career of sorts trying to persuade computers to do things that they are not naturally capable of. I could also occasionally be found in recording studios in Woodstock, NY, and San Fransisco, though my memory of some of those events is a bit hazy.

In 1993 I started my own business. It became a private limited company, Renaissance Partners Ltd in 1995, and we invented the stupid disk2disc name for our transcription and restoration service in 2001. (In 2004 we discontinued the limited company as it wasn’t giving us any benefit.)

I’m now "mostly retired" which means I spend only six days a week in my studio in the beautiful New Forest National Park, where I’ve transferred and restored recordings in any one of a dozen formats for hundreds of satisfied (and just one very dissatisfied) clients.