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Martin Terefe

Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle

40 Years of Making Music at Eastcote Studios

Martin Terefe

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English
West Ten Publishing Ltd
20 January 2022
Music recording & reproduction
In 1980 a young musician and engineer, recently graduated from Cambridge with a degree in architecture, decided to start a music studio. That person was Philip Bagenal and the studio he started was Eastcote Studios.

Situated north of Ladbroke Grove, Eastcote would go on to become one of the most important and influential of London music studios. It is where Massive Attack recorded their seminal first album, Blue Lines, where Neneh Cherry recorded as well as Tricky and Seal in the 1980s and early 90s, and where Mute Records recorded many of their artists, including Depeche Mode. Then in the late 90s it became a central part of the brit pop scene with Placebo, Elastica and Suede and more recently where a new generation of musicians, from Adele to the Arctic Monkeys, the Kaiser Chiefs to Mumford & Sons, created some of their greatest albums.

But this book tells the story of so much more: of why it became so successful, about the bands you may never have heard of, the sessions that collapsed into chaos and the triumphs on the other side. And about the anti-authoritarian sound magician that was Philip Bagenal.
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Imprint:   West Ten Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 259mm,  Width: 254mm, 
Weight:   1.580kg
ISBN:   9781838340810
ISBN 10:   1838340815
Pages:   232
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Foreword, Charlie Seaward * Introduction * Beginnings * Walter's Workshops * 1980 Where is It? Well It's Not in Eastcote * 1981 The Dudes on Kensal Road * 1982 It Was the Last Film I Ever Saw * 1983 Over My Dead Body * 1984 Who Wants to Buy Half a House in Oxford * 1985 You Know What, This Guy is Going to Buy the Studio * 1986 There's a New Sheriff in Town * 1987 We Did to Warhol What He Did to Bananas * 1988 Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle * 1989 The Sort of a Place You Call in on Your Way to Fame * 1990 Drummy? He Was Always There * 1991 Trip Hop and Synth Riffs * 1992 Don't Go Shoplifting at Virgin Records * 1993 Mind the Buzzcocks and How to Find Big Good Angel * 1994 It's a Giant Blender * 1995 The Future is Medium * 1996 Sitar and Magic Stones. To Make the Sound More Magic * 1997 Everybody Needs a Bosom for a Pillow * 1998 Learning from the Maestro * 1999 Blow Them Away. Fly Them to the Moon * 2000 A Big Crane and the River of Fire * 2001 Have You Invented a Genre Lately? * 2002 The Cook and the Raconteur * 2003 From Havana, Con Calor * 2004 What's This? What Is Happening Here! * 2005 Things to Do When the Boss Is Asleep on the Sofa * 2006 He F***ing Built Himself a Studio He Doesn't Fit in * 2007 Can You Send This Back to Them Please? * 2008 Did You See Flash? * 2009 People the Music Industry's Romance is Built on * 2010 3 Million Synthesisers Deep * 2011 Facts, Fun and Fusion * 2012 A Decapitated Award. And Three Bananas * 2013 I Really Don't Like That Guitar Solo * 2014 A Bit of Gravitas and No Bullshit * 2015 The Neighbourhood Isn't Exactly the Champs-Elysees * 2016 If You Take Someone's Heart Out. They Die * 2017 We're About to Blow Up the Best Studio of All Time * 2018 A Very Specials Year * 2019 Experimentation and Mistakes * 2020 Weird and the Birth of Zooming * Neatly Folded and Ironed * Picture Credits * Acknowledgements

is an acclaimed music producer, musician and songwriter as well as the founder of Kensaltown Recording Studios. Originally from Sweden he moved to London in the 1990s to work in the music industry. In the 25 years since then, Martin has produced Grammy, Brit and Juno award-winning albums, and worked with artists like James Morrison, Cat Stevens and KT Tunstall. His productions of I'm Yours (Jason Mraz), Hey Soul Sister (Train) and I Took A Pill in Ibiza (Mike Posner) are part of modern American chart history, and his work with developing and working with the next generation continues with artists such as Shawn Mendes, Alec Benjamin and Yungblud. He is also a founding member of the multi-disciplinary art collective Apparatjik. In 2016 he acquired Eastcote Studios from the founder, Philip Bagenal. This is his first book.

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