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Courtney Hadwin…
Courtney Hadwin stopped by Dean St. Studios to record a cover of Harry Styles’ ‘Sign of the Times’ and show off her incredible voice!
Dean Street’s November Playlist
We skipped our playlist last month because, if we're honest, it was mostly Halloween themed and there are only so many times you can hear the Monster Mash! But we're back this month with a brand new list of tracks that have been on repeat in the studio throughout November!
As always, let us know what you've been listening to this month and we'll make sure we check them out.
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Courtney Hadwin covered Old Town Road when she last visited Dean St. Studios.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Auris Ear Care
We try to stay as healthy as possible here at Dean St. Studios and, if we're honest, sometimes we slip a bit! But looking after our ears is something that we don't skimp on, so we were pleased to have Dr. Riaz Rampuri from Auris Ear Care visit us this week.
Auris Ear Care's new mobile service meant that our entire team could get an ear health check, an ear clean, and have any ear-health related questions answered, all with minimal disruption to our studio.
Their friendly, professional service took no more than 15 minutes per person and you can now trust that our ears are in tip-top shape to continue to provide our clients with the quality service that Dean St. Studios has always done.
For more information on the services that Auris Ear Care provides, including ear wax removal service, take a look at their website.
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We're almost finished with September and, as usual, we've put together our most-played tracks of the month for you to have a listen to. Some are old, some are new, but all of them have managed to get stuck in our ears this month!
Let us know what you've been listening to on repeat this September.
Dean Street’s August Playlist
It's been a pretty busy time for the Dean St. Team this August, hence why this playlist is coming to you a little later than usual! But we're a committed bunch and even though we've been busy we're still bringing you a playlist full of the tracks that have kept us powering through some long days and nights at the Studio.
We hope you enjoy them!
And let us know your top tracks of the month.
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It's that time of the month where we go through all our most played tracks and put them all in a Spotify playlist for you! Like most months its a pretty ecclectic collection of music. Some old, some new, but all bloody brilliant!
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What’s your role at Dean St. Studios and how long have you been there?
I’m an assistant engineer and I have been here since the beginning of November 2018.
What first made you want to get into this kind of role?
I first became interested after I started writing and producing my own music, I wanted to learn how to record what I was doing and it progressed from there.
What were your first steps into the industry? And did you get a formal education in a related subject?
I started off as a musician, firstly piano and violin and then later guitar, I began to write and produce when I was around 16. I studied Music Production as an A Level and then went on to get an Advanced Diploma in music production and sound engineering at the Abbey Road Institute. After that I went to Studios 301 in Australia to intern for 2 months before coming back and getting started here.
What have been your favourite or most memorable experiences in the industry so far?
I’d say my favourite experiences are the ones where you have a bit of a laugh with clients, not even necessarily big household names – but I love to work with people where you can talk and it feels as though you have made the experience a bit more personal.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/marcalmond.png" _builder_version="3.22.7"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/carriefletcher.png" _builder_version="3.22.7"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.7"]What artists have you worked with?
I have assisted a couple of sessions with Marc Almond, Carrie Fletcher and Jacob Banks, to name a few.
What are your goals for the future?
I’d like to do a bit of everything. Producing, engineering, mixing and even some writing. I enjoy being creative with music. I’d love to work with Fyfe, Grandson and Lana del Rey.
Top 5 tracks that you wish you’d have worked on?
1. Arctic Monkeys – Four out of Five
2. Leyya - Butter
3. Phantogram – You don’t get me high anymore
4. SAULT – Don’t Waste My Time
5. Tame Impala - Elephant
Favourite gig you’ve been too?
Anderson .Paak and Dr Dre in Brixton.
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What’s your role at Dean St. Studios and how long have you been there?
I’m a full time assistant engineer, I’ve been at Dean Street since July 2018.
What first made you want to get into this kind of role?
For many years I’ve worked as a writing artist, arranger, producer and session guitarist. I always felt like the engineer had such a crucial role in the development of a song and the overall sound that we can achieve, and I finally decided to learn more about it and it just felt like a natural step forward.
What were your first steps into the industry? And did you get a formal education in a related subject?
So first steps I took in the industry were with my band, we got a contract in Italy with an independent record label and started touring around Europe and then subsequently toured Australia and New Zealand. While we were working in the studio recording our material and for session work I developed an interest in sound engineering and audio production. I graduated at the Saint Louis College of music conservatory in Rome majoring in Arrangement and composition, I am currently taking a course in Audio Engineering at SAE London.
What have been your favourite or most memorable experiences in the industry so far? And in Dean St.?
Definitely touring Australia and New Zealand was an amazing experience, I had also the chance to do a couple of sessions in Chicago and Nashville. One of my first sessions assisting in Dean Street Studios was with Robbie Williams and Bob Sinclair, then doing sessions with Chase & Status at Dean Street, Jacob Banks and it gets better every week!
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version="3.22.7"][/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.7"]What artists have you worked with?
I worked with some Italian artists including Zucchero, Lello Panico, Pino Daniele and others. In England I’ve had the pleasure to work with Robbie Williams and Bob Sinclair on their single “Electrico Romantico”, I’ve also done sessions with Chase & Status, Jacob Banks on his collaboration with Massive Attack, Stereo Honey, Sid Nair and Dominic (of the band “Super Food”) and some very interesting up and coming artists, recently done a session with Dmob Happy and Domnique from Nothing But thieves and it was just an amazing tracking session.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.0.47"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/jacobbanks.png" _builder_version="3.22.7"] [/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.0.47"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/stereohoney.png" _builder_version="3.22.7"] [/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.0.47"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.7"]What are your goals for the future?
My goal is to become a successful audio engineer and producer working with the best musicians and artists in the industry. I would love to work with up and coming artists, because I want to be at the forefront of new trends in music. Some more recent artists I would love to work with are Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tame Impala, Tom Misch, Foals, Bjork (even though she’s not so recent), Gary Clark Jr, Childish Gambino and many many more.
Top 5 tracks that you wish you’d have worked on?
1. Radiohead - The King of Limbs [album]
2. David Bowie - Life On Mars
3. Blur - Strange News From Another Star
4. Childish Gambino - Me and Your Mama
5. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
Favourite gig you’ve been too?
I think this is one of those questions that falls into the “impossible to chose” categories. Some of my favourites are:
-Roger Waters - The wall (2010 Milan, 2012 Rome)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers/Wu Tang Clan (My first big concert ever, Udine 2007)
-Depeche Mode - Rome 2012
-Arctic Monkeys - Rome 2012
-Winton Marsalis - Chicago 2006
-Buddy Guy/B.B. King - Chicago 2002 and in 2003
-Eric Clapton - London 2013
-Snarky Puppy (Can’t recall precisely the year but it was an insane concert!)
-Marc Almond (100 club 2019 in Soho, London.)
-Jamiroquai - 2009 Rome.
-Herbie Hancock quintet.
-Paul McCartney - 2012 Arena di Verona, Italy
Rob Macfarlane: The Interview
What is your role at Dean St. Studios and how long have you been there?
My role is primarily engineering client’s sessions in Studio 1, whether it be for recording, mixing or any other madness! I only started at Dean Street Studios about six months ago, but I’ve already been made to feel more welcome than anyone has right to - after a decade of freelancing I can’t explain how good it feels to have a base as strong as Dean St.
What first made you want to get into this kind of role?
Back in the mists of the early 2000’s when I was a teenager, digital music was only in it’s early pirate years. Napster would download one MP3 in a out three hours, and the internet was still in its infancy.As result Twitter, Instagram and other social networks weren’t there to constantly drip feed you information about your favourite acts and the best you got was a few interviews at the time of an album’s release and the liner notes in the CD. There was a certain mystery and allure to having no idea about the daily lives of your musical heroes besides what they told you in their lyrics and the few pages of print etc.
In the credits of the album you could start to recognise similar names coming up under the “Engineer” and “Producer” credits. A lot of the records I was buying has a similar aesthetic, and it turned out that wasn't just down to the musicians themselves. Once I began reading online about these strange figures that were somehow allowed to help sculpt an album being made, things became clearer.
There was definitely this image of a group of people coming together under the roof of a studio, banding together like some pirate crew in search of musical fortune under the guidance of a producer who captains the whole mess. People like Alan Moulder or Flood became these semi-mythical album-whisperers and I knew I wanted to try getting even halfway there.
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AlanMoulder.jpg" align="center" align_tablet="center" align_last_edited="on|desktop" _builder_version="3.23"][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4"]What were your first steps into the industry? And did you get a formal education in a related subject?
I did get a degree in Music Technology and all it really taught me is that educational establishments are predatory parasites that feed on the hopes and aspirations of the naive in order to turn a quick buck. You'll start the course with your ears ringing with the empty promises they feed you - “99% of our graduates are employed, we have great facilities, the industry respects our course” - and you'll invariably leave with the same employment prospects you went in with.
This was never an industry that was struggling to find employees, even before the industrialised machine of degree education starting churning out thousands of graduates per year. In the end I got my start by acknowledging on my CV that my previous education was something that would have to be un-taught, and that the preconceptions my education gave me were something I'd have to gladly throw away.
Every new hire at a studio has to come with album credits or a willingness to spend a few years taking out bins and fetching coffees. I didn't need a degree to do those things, and often I now meet runners who think they're months away from a Grammy award on their first day of work. The issue is that more education is rarely what a studio needs: often the areas that are most lacking - like enthusiasm and willingness - have understandably been exhausted by the time a student has graduated.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25" column_structure="1_2,1_2"][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/nilerodgers.png" align_tablet="center" align_last_edited="on|desktop" _builder_version="3.23"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_image src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/eddiekramer.png" align_tablet="center" align_last_edited="on|desktop" _builder_version="3.23"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4"]What have been your favourite or most memorable experiences in the industry so far? And in Dean St.?
Memorable experiences tend to clang around a little with the weight of the names being dropped, and favourites are usually a little easier at the expense of being less relatable - “you had to be there!”.
Sitting with Nile Rodgers (clang!) talking about producing Bowie or having a coffee with Eddie Kramer and talking about Jimi (clang!) were great moments that I'll always feel privileged to have experienced. The same goes for the sessions engineering for acts like Jay Z etc. However if I'm honest my favourite moments are much less impressive at first glance than a big name client or studio legends. I think I’ll always value most those rare and exceedingly special moments where what came out of the speakers genuinely exceeded what we had in our heads before we hit record. In subjective fields like sound quality and music performance, it can be very easy to forever be chasing pride and never allowing yourself a moment of it - whether you're a musician, engineer or producer you can usually always hear some tiny detail you'd change if you could. I have a memory bank of those few moments where the recording just blew past all of that and demanded attention and let pride slip through. And I don't think anyone can deny that those are firm favourites.
Dean St has the sort of equipment and live room where I've already had my unfair share of moments like that, even in the short time I've been there. But I won't say my favourite Dean St moment has been any of those particularly - more important to me is the team of wonderful people who all work pretty tirelessly to keep it magical. It's been a while since I've been part of a team, and I don't think I could have joined another that has the same drive for constant improvement as these guys do.
What artists have you worked with?
Well I was fortunate enough to get my start at RAK Studios, starting first as a runner and then quite quickly after that Chase & Status asked me to become their full time engineer. One of the many benefits working with a production duo of that calibre for so long was the revolving door of great vocal talent I was able to work with - sadly with just the way music works these days, after conflicting album schedules and campaigns much of it never sees the light of day!
In terms of notable artists, there's nothing I've done that isn't in my credits list already, but the laundry list of the great and good can be dry reading compared to the privilege of being there when these people are creating songs that hundreds of thousands of people go on to enjoy. It's not the calibre of artist that makes a session like that special, it's purely that the quality of their output is an amazing thing to witness happening in front of you. It's rare I'll have a session where I don't feel the weight of that responsibility, and pinch myself a little!
In terms of notable tracks, there isn't one I've worked on that I've forgotten - even if one or two of them I'd rather!
What are your goals for the future?
At some point it'd be good to win an arbitrary trophy. Or at least a pizza. Or a pizza trophy. I don't see any reason why we can't push Dean St to an MPG award in the coming years, especially considering everyone on this team is more than capable of batting right next to the big boys. I love that Dean Street isn't as well known as it should be just yet - it feels like being privy to this awesome secret that the rest of the London industry doesn't know about yet. I can really see this place going absolutely stratospheric in the next few years, and getting the chance to be part of that is just the most exciting thing.
Ten years freelancing gave me a wide experience of many things, but it can't compare to the variety that comes through the door of a studio. I first knocked on the door here because I recognised that variety for the very special thing it is - in the last weeks I've recorded probably my most varied collection of genres, instruments and vocalists. Every session is another chance to gain a new skill or sharpen an existing one that I wouldn't be able to get by working long-term on a specific project, not to mention show off a bit too!
Top 5 tracks that you wish you’d have worked on?
Now the temptation here is just to write a list of some of my favourite recordings, and I think I'll completely fail to abstain from doing so. But it has to be tempered with the fact I learnt not too long ago; that the music I really love is often the product of a difficult birth, and having had experience of what those sessions take from the people involved in them I’m more than happy remaining in the audience for the next one or two.
For instance “Spirit Of Eden” by Talk Talk - I don’t think there’s much doubt that Phill Brown captured some of the most affectingly beautiful audio in the history of what we do. But if you read what he, the band, even the label had to go through to get that level of quality it’s a scary ride. There’s absolutely no doubt that the privilege of working on that music would be something I’d jump into with both hands and a massive grin, but two years sat in the dark not knowing what any of the songs were even that late in the process is a terrifying idea.
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version="3.22.7"][/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4"]Favourite gig you’ve been to?
A band called “Melt Yourself Down” played the New Empowering Church in Hackney sometime in 2014 or so. They eventually released the gig as a live album, it’s available on Spotify.
Now this band are known to be fantastic live, and I’d never seen them before. The whole church venue was a little disconcerting, until I arrived and saw this ‘Church’ was literally a concrete warehouse with a stage. It’s absolutely packed, and the band get everyone going absolutely apeshit. Their tunes are a bizzarro mix of afrobeat, jazz, punk, and lord knows what else - but regardless of which of their many influences they’re leaning on each and every tune is a polyrhythmic beast. The frontman does most of his work from inside the audience, the saxophonist is on his back - crowdsurfing as he solos like a demon across the room carried by the audiences sweaty palms. They start their last song, I get up on the front of stage, looking back on the sea of hands ready to catch me and the circle of moshing bodies just behind them. My musical excitement in overdrive, I leap 100% of the way OVER the hands ready to catch me, directly into the empty moshpit, landing directly on the top of my head. The concrete splits my head open, and I end up in A&E getting my scalp glued back together. Best gig, hands down, ever.
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We're back with a brand spanking new playlist, packed full of all the tracks that we've been playing on repeat this month.
Have a listen and then let us know what your June ear worms have been!
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The truly incredible thing about Dean St. Studios isn't our rich history of renowned artists recording here, nor is it our ridiculously long list of top-notch equipment. What we think is really special, and our clients seem to agree, is the team of people who work here. Combining years of experience with unadulterated enthusiasm, our Team is absolutely second to none.
So to celebrate this we've put together a series of interviews with our Studio team to help you get to know them a little bit better.
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[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.7"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4"]You can learn even more about our Team by heading over to our Community page.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Godzilla OST
In July of 2018 we hosted the recording of orchestral percussion, ethnic woodwind and solo cello for the new film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Composed by Bear McCreary, produced by Jason Akers and engineered by Dean St's Jonny Solway (with addition assisting by Giovanni Giagu), recording at Dean St. was done to the working picture of the film. In Jonny's words "one of the most demanding sessions I've done as there was a lot to get to and we had an extremely high level of talented musicians in".
Although not recorded at Dean St., the film's soundtrack contains a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's 'Godzilla' and features System of a Down's Serj Tankian. Bear McCreary discusses this on his website, saying that "this film could give me an opportunity to produce a new version of my favorite Blue Öyster Cult song, “Godzilla.” Moreover, I could realize it with some of my favorite musicians from the rock and metal community, including Serj Tankian from System of a Down and the rhythm section of the metal band Dethklok. “I’m in,” I told Michael, setting in motion a creative journey that would change my life in more ways than I could guess." - Read his blog in its entirety here.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is out now and the soundtrack is available to listen to/buy in the usual places!
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Written by Rob Macfarlane
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.7" z_index_tablet="500"]It’s been a matter of weeks since I volunteered to write a short piece for Mental Health Awareness Week, and so of course I have spent most days since then obsessively thinking about writing without typing a single word. Each time I’ve been asked about how this piece is going, I’ve happily answered with confidence that it is going without issue and should turn out great. Whilst typing these words to my long suffering friend, there has been the private little orchestra of panic, anxiety, self-deprecation and guilt that not a single word had been written.
My first stumbling block is that despite having my own extensive mental health issues both currently and in the past, I have no desire to share them. I’ve never been embarrassed or ashamed of having troubles, but I’ve also never read someone else reel out their laundry list of problems online and felt particularly helped by it. There’s a troublingly performative undercurrent to some mental health awareness posts, and whilst it must somehow help others, the inclusion of internet-points based reactions at something vulnerable has never really appealed to me. Whilst I’m happy to talk to anyone about my history with anyone who cares to ask, a coffee table has always seemed a far more comfortable platform for me to open up across than a social network.
Secondly, I wouldn’t presume that my experiences with my unco-operative mind will be of any particular use to someone else with their broken brainbox. We all sit in our own little bubbles of confusion, and even when parallels or common experiences are found they can often annoyingly grate rather than pleasantly harmonise. Pain isn’t lessened by hearing our fellow lunatics scream the same traumas, it only serves to heighten our insecurity that our own howls will get lost in the hubbub. It’s rare that someone can tell you their medication without it swiftly devolving into dosage top-trumps, each of us desperate to prove to the world and therefore ourselves that our pain is as unique and untreatable as it feels every day.
So no war stories about awful times at the Not-Ok Corrall; nor will I pretend to be any sort of expert on how to maintain a healthy mind. The music industry has however given me a variety of memorable experiences in desperately unhealthy recording sessions, business practices and personal habits that I’ve found useful to analyse. I think it’s important that we do this whenever we can, both for coming to terms with our own responsibility for causing them, and for avoiding their happening again in the future.
The music business is a horrifyingly efficient factory for mental health issues. Even it’s core premise is a deeply problematic moral swamp. We give artists their canvas of three minutes of empty silence and ask them to populate it with their self expression, their emotions, their identity and other various pieces of themselves. We then enter it into a competitive popularity contest marketplace where everything they put into that song is sold as a product, the sales of which determine whether their feelings and identities are winners or losers. Made with the correct intentions music is an highly emotive, vulnerable experience for an artist, and an effectively run business is a objective, emotionless transactional affair - it’s not hard to see the friction between the two.
And so we build a team of people to help ease this friction, and in doing so we dissolve and diffuse it throughout an interconnected web of more potential patients. Producers, Managers, A&R Teams, Engineers, Assistants - any role you care to mention in our industry comes with its unique psychological challenges. A&R roles and Label staff may not be so emotionally vulnerable as the primary musician but they’ll be stung by the same lack of sales, and their careers can be far more expendable to a label than that of the artist. Not all roles come with such a threateningly quantifiable success or failure state as album sales however - for studio staff the failure state is far more vague, and accordingly so is any guarantee that you’re doing well. Whilst it’s rare you’ll take the blame for an albums failure, it’s far harder to feel any responsibility whatsoever when the album succeeds. Instead we usually measure ourselves by the artists mood, and our own often grimly dark view of our own work.
Often in studios the process lends itself incredibly easily to insecurity and anxiety. We spend the session furiously searching for any flaws in our work, any slight issue to resolve, any element that could lend itself to improvement. Whilst we define Mixing as the process of making the song sound ‘better’, we rarely admit that ‘better’ is a not destination you can stop at - only something you can perpetually travel toward. And so we end our day with a head full of things we wish had been done, or ways we wish we’d recorded, or things we wish we hadn’t. This vengeful attitude towards the quality of our own work is what drives our ability to improve day by day, and to hopefully make great recordings and put out great mixes. But it’s far from healthy. Add to this bizarre rollercoaster of self-punishment some regularly unsociable hours, lack of daylight, lack of routine, lack of healthy food and lack of financial security or other validation, and it’s not hard to see why it’s not just the artists of our industry that struggle.
To a degree however, all of the above has been true of our trade since its inception. New technologies have come and gone, working practices have changed and you can quite successfully make the argument that our job roles have never been easier. So why the apparent upswing in mental health problems? A portion of it could certainly be that people are more comfortable admitting their issues than we were in decades prior, and that increased awareness has led to more people seeking help sooner. This is only to be applauded, but I think a lot more of it has to do with our profession never being easier to access, our tools never being more widely available, and our barriers to success never more trivialised.
We live in a society that claims anyone can make their way in the world if they work hard enough and want it bad enough, that no matter your circumstances or disadvantages, you too can be a superstar. It’s all up to you - if you have the passion, and the work ethic, you too can become a materially important pillar of the modern music world. It’s the foundation of our industry’s favourite story - the ‘rags to riches’ young upstart who wakes up one day to find their dreams made true through ‘having passion’ and ‘working hard’.
Diligence and passion are without doubt prerequisites for any professional in our industry, and I’m proud to say something we have in abundance at Dean St. But I can’t help but feel it’s a little disingenuous to claim that those are the only ingredients to success. Years of experience and all the passion in the world are rarely as expedient as being in the right place at the right time. It’s all very well selling the dream at universities and colleges up and down the country that ‘anyone can make it’, but you’d better be either comfortably middle class or happy only eating four times a week if you want to make it through your unpaid internship. And you might be able to dial in the best drumsound in the UK but financially it’s all for nothing if you’re not getting it for clients who actually sell records.
Our obsession with this Great Dream is what makes us so scared to say when we’re exhausted, and instead work through it. It’s what makes us so sure that our work can’t be of quality, because to stop and tell ourselves we’ve done good work is to invite mediocrity to the table. In a world where everyone’s victories are attributable only to their hard work and passion, then our failures can only be a result of our own lack of either. We will work long hours without fair compensation, take any attitude thrown our way by stressed musicians with a polite smile, and dare not complain for fear of denting our rapidly growing yet still irrelevant karmic credit account. To mention that we’re struggling would be treason against the great dream that we buy almost as often as we try and sell it to others - that this job is a lifestyle choice with little to no reason for complaint. Our jobs are our means of putting food in our mouths, saving for property and god forbid, one day being able to afford a retirement. If achieving even the first item on that list is driving us all to the pharmacy, we have a problem.
The circumstances of the jobs in our industry will likely never change - and largely I don’t believe many of them should. But the way in which we collectively decide to talk about this industry amongst one another simply has to change if we want to avoid the burnout that most of us are finding an inevitable feature of our workplaces. We have thankfully started moving towards a place where discussions of having issues with mental health is not only commonplace, but often actively encouraged; but yet I can’t help but feel that we are being open and accepting to the symptoms of a deep rooted issue we dare not address.
Until we collectively feel more comfortable admitting that our jobs can be just that at times, and not the wonderland of perpetual gratification that we feel obligated to pretend we’re living in, we’re going to keep going back to the pharmacist. Until we can allow colleagues the breathing room we resent not being given ourselves, and until we dare to admit we may need some ourselves, we’re going to keep going back to the pharmacist. If we only take notice of our working practices when people are ending up in the hospital, we're not checking in with those people who we're helping drive there.
When you choose a career in the music industry, you're chasing a dream; successfully holding down that career can feel like your living one. There is no doubt in my mind that I am unfathomably lucky to have the job I do, and not a day goes by I don’t feel deeply grateful for my position. But legitimate problems in your working environment and practices shouldn’t have to be disguised and minimised by the eternal manta’s of “Aren’t you lucky?” and “At least it's not a proper job!”. But to say that just because we’re not breaking our backs means we have an easy job is a mistake easily corrected by pointing out that the physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are hardly athletes, nor is your local hospitals brain surgeon. The cognitive, and more importantly, emotional endurance required of certain roles in the industry are dangerously exhausting when working what are considered ‘normal’ hours.
It is entirely within the realms of ‘normal’ for a music professional to spend their day permanently on edge, constantly auditing every aspect of their behaviour’s compatibility with the people around them being creative. An assistant engineer cannot complain about being tired during their ninth consecutive 15 hour day, nor can a manager exclaim that they simply don’t have the space to think about someone’s laundry being collected. They are not only perils of the job, they’re often intrinsic to the jobs being done well. I had to make a conscious decision that it is acceptable for me to use the toilet when I need to, rather than the masochistic dance I used to and I know most others still put themselves through. None of these facts are problems, nor am I claiming that the long established means of working need to change - simply that to acknowledge them as facts and then wonder why mental health in our often chaotic industry is on the decline. If you know that your job is going to include situations almost tailored to making you doubt your self worth, surely prioritising healthy self-care should be a given?
I believe the primary priority of any music professional should always be the music above all else. There’s going to be some fantastic work done this year, and yet more just over the horizon. We owe it not only to the music, but more importantly to ourselves, to reach that horizon. I feel a lot of our current methodology for doing that is by slamming the proverbial pedal to the metal whilst still being stuck in first gear, adamant that the loud noise from our brain-engines is just proof we're working hard. For Mental Health Awareness week, why not try taking your foot off the gas and finding a better gear?
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Dean Street’s May Playlist
It's that time again; we're sharing the tracks that have been most played by us this month. As usual it's a pretty eclectic mix of songs so you'll hopefully find something that tickles your pickle.
And our need for new music is STRONG, so make sure you let us know what you've been listening to too.
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We recently came across this fantastic fan-made Oasis documentary on YouTube. It focuses on the period of time when the band were recording their UK #1 album, ’Standing on the Shoulder of Giants’ at Wheeler End Recording Studio in Buckinghamshire.
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version="3.22.4"][/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.4"]Our co-owner, Suzanne Lee-Barnes, originally owned the Wheeler End studios along with her husband, Alvin Lee. They purchased the farmhouse and grounds in the 1980’s and they developed it first into a studio where Alvin could record with his friends, artists like George Harrison and Joe Brown.
In 1994 Wheeler End became a commercial recording studio, with additional space (a converted barn) where artists could rehearse for upcoming recordings, tours or gigs.
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‘Standing on the Shoulder of Giants’ wasn’t the only album that Oasis recorded at the studio. They let the studio for 8 years and also recorded ‘Heathen Chemistry’ there.
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Some incredible artists recorded at Wheeler End over the years, including Paul Weller (he recorded both albums ‘Illumination’ and ‘As Is Now’ there), Robbie Williams, Kasabian, David Gilmour, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Madness, The Prodigy, KiKi Dee and Bonnie Tyler.
We found this video of Robbie recording his album 'I've Been Expecting You' at Wheeler End;
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version="3.22.4"][/et_pb_code][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.4"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.4"]Whilst not being Dean St. Studio history per se, the history and experience that our entire team has really goes into making our Studio what it is today and we’re incredibly proud of that.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Hold Up A Light
Earlier this year we were visited by some extra-special VIPs; the very talented children from Grasmere Primary! They were joined by songwriter Jamie Norton and Take That's Mark Owen to record a new version of the band's song 'Hold Up A Light'.
The recording is due to be released as a single on April 26th and proceeds will be going to Salisbury Hospice, a charity very close to Jamie's heart, as well as the school's FROGS appeal to build an outdoor play space for the children.
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Jamie is going one step (or, more accurately, about 26.2 miles worth of steps) further in his charity efforts and will be running the London Marathon to raise even more money for the incredible Hospice.
“When my good friend and collaborator, Jamie Norton, asked me to be involved in rerecording ‘Hold Up A Light’ to raise money for the hospice where his mum spent her final weeks, I absolutely wanted to help in any way that I could. Since then this project has grown and grown and I’d like to wish him the best of luck with his first marathon run, and hope the project raises lots of pennies for the associated charities.” said Mark.
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Team Dean St. are proud to have hosted such a worth while cause.
'Hold Up A Light' will be available to purchase from Friday 26th April.
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Team Dean St. are always on the hunt for new music. So we’ve decided to share our monthly top tracks with you in the hope that you’ll share yours with us too!
We’ll be publishing a monthly Spotify playlist so you can have a listen to the tracks that have spent the most time in our ears this month.
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Leave your suggestions for tracks that we need to check out and hopefully we can spread the word of some fantastic music and artists.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Fighting with My Family
In 2017, we had Vik Sharma in the studio, recording the soundtrack for Merchant’s new film ‘Fighting with my Family’, based on WWE superstar Paige.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="1_2"][et_pb_image _builder_version="3.18.9" src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FIghting.png" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2"][et_pb_image _builder_version="3.18.9" src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Merchant.png" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_image _builder_version="3.18.9" src="https://www.deanst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FightingOST.jpg" align="center" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.18.9"]As big WWE fans, we were very excited to go and check the film out - we weren’t disappointed! Even if you’re not a wrestling fan, the film is fantastic. It’s a funny and feel-good, utterly heartwarming story, that makes you want to go and kick some ass!
The soundtrack is a wonderful mix of some classic rock - think Iron Maiden and Motorhead - plus some original compositions by Vik Sharma. Featuring Graham Coxon of Blur on guitar and Jason Cooper of The Cure on drums.
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‘Fighting with my Family’ is out now and the soundtrack is available both on Spotify and to purchase.
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Record Store Day is coming up on April 13th and everyone at the studio is very excited. Our turntable is set up in our lounge and we're ready to get all our new purchases blasted through the speakers asap!
After studying this year's HUGE list of exclusive releases we thought we'd give you an insight into our top 5 picks to look out for. Whether you're planning on queuing up to make sure you get your mitts on your must-have vinyl, or whether you're taking the slightly more laid-back option of hoping your favourite will still be available online later in the month, we hope you make the most of this fantastic day.
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(Left to Right) Ten Years After - The Cap Ferrat Sessions / Glass Animals - Zaba Stripped / South Park OST / LeAnn Rimes - Live from Gruene Hall / The Mighty Boosh Radio Series
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Soho, London used to be absolutely filled to the brim with record shops but sadly a lot of them have had to shut their doors over the years. However our studio is still very lucky (and possibly slightly dangerously for our bank balance!) to be neighbours with some fantastic record shops. Not only full of new and second-hand vinyl, but also filled with incredible music knowledge and history.
The Dean St. Studio Team have two favourite shops in Soho that we like to frequent on an all-too-often basis!
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.18.9"]First up is Reckless Records on Berwick Street, a family run business that's full of heart and a features on the album artwork for Oasis' What's the Story Morning Glory.
Also on Berwick Street is Sister Ray. A business that originated as a market stall in Camden and has gone on to play an integral part of Soho's musical history. They had the Mighty Boosh boys pop by recently to announce that they were the 2019 ambassadors for Record Store Day. Watch the video below!
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And we can't talk about Record Store Day without mentioning the very stylish and, more importantly, incredible sounding Limited Edition Rega turntable. Only 500 are available to purchase so you'll have to be quick to get one but as they're based on Rega's Planar 1 Plus turntable, you're getting a great piece of kit for a very reasonable price.
Let us know what your top picks are for Record Store Day are on Facebook or in the comments below- we can see our shopping list getting longer!
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Roachford – Cuddly Toy Magic of: Christmas 2020
Roachford - Cuddly Toy Magic of: Christmas 2020.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Roachford – Love Remedy (Dean St. Session)
The Dean St. Session of Love Remedy by Roachford.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Luke Evans – Bring Him Home (Live at Dean St. Studios)
Luke Evans recorded "Bring Him Home" on his latest visit to Dean St. Studios.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Courtney Hadwin – Old Town Road (Live at Dean St.)
Courtney Hadwin covered Old Town Road when she last visited Dean St. Studios.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Áine – Disclocated (Live at Dean St.)
Áine came into our lovely studio to record a live version of her track 'Dislocated'.
She was joined by the brilliant Jake Richardson on piano.
Courtney Hadwin – Sign of the Times (Live at Dean St.)
Courtney Hadwin stopped by Dean St. Studios to record a cover of Harry Styles' 'Sign of the Times' and show off her incredible voice!
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Courtney Hadwin – Sucker (Live at Dean St.)
Courtney Hadwin visited us to record a live cover of Jonas Brothers' 'Sucker'.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Bob Sinclar Ft. Robbie Williams – Electrico Romantico
Bob Sinclar and Robbie Williams record their latest single, Electrico Romantico, at Dean Street Studios
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Tom Odell – Real Love
Ed Sheeran ft. Wretch 32 & Devlin – You Need me
Tom Odell – Can’t Pretend (at Dean Street Studios)
The Grinning Man – Hannah Waddingham and Matt Lucas
David Bowie – Wild Is The Wind
The Grinning Man – Harry Enfield
The Milk ft Idris Elba – Picking Up The Pieces
NME Session – Wolf Alice, ‘Your Love’s Whore’
Ella Henderson – Five Tattoos
The superb Amber Run with an acoustic performance of ‘I Found’
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