Today’s studio blog is about Eastcote Studios.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-studios-of-london-eastcote-studios/
Morse Code, a blockhead, Emmylou, Nile Rodgers, a baronet’s daughter and an anthem.
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I’m really puzzled by the fact that this successful artist is completely unknown to me. Never knowingly heard of him or heard his music before today.
Makes me wonder what my ears were doing.
Me too, Mike. Heard the name, thinking him a Sam Smith or George Ezra-alike, a male Dido. Quite good, innit?!
He can slip into a bit of MOR but this album is really good. Mrs B has been a fan for a while and we saw him live last summer. Great voice, good songwriter.
You need to listen to daytime Radio 2, Mike. He’s quite popular on there.
Fantastic! I’m just trying to imagine what the video pre-production sketches must have said.
“1:33 farts cloud of dry ice from under volumous skirt.”
To quote Mini, “Parp!”
Anyone interested on learning more should check out Martin Terefe’s excellent history of the studio, Like Trying To Catch Lightning in a Bottle.
One of my favourite obscure ’80s albums, “World Service” by Man Jumping, was recorded at Eastcote Studios, engineered and co-produced by Philip Bagenal.
Yes, @Mike_H A couple of tracks on the playlist. I’d not heard of them before but the album sounds interesting.
As is usual with your scribblings Niall, superb reading once again.
Now … quick proof-read/minor error spot:
Beth Orton’s Daybreaker was released 16 July 2002 (not 2022)
(pedantic I’m sure you will agree …)
Thanks, bud.
Great piece. If you’re thinking of collating these into a book would it be worth slapping a copyright notice onto each page? Someone more in touch with these things might think it pointless, but just a thought.
Thanks, MC-Escher. I’ve no idea, it’s not occurred to me. Can anyone else help?
A good means of asserting copyright on your articles would be posting sealed copies of them to yourself by recorded delivery and then storing the packages unopened.
I would be careful – could a writer legally claim the first extract as their own work when the second was written by someone else? (This is not a criticism of an interesting and well-researched article, by the way, I’m just thinking if you were going for copyright, you would maybe keep the facts but change the words a bit more.)
Originally set up in the 1880’s as Walters Electrical Manufacturing Co., they provided electrical telegraph and other railway equipment to mostly South American rail companies. The original ‘Mr. Walters’ was Walter Powles and today’s directors are his great-grandchildren.
After the war, the company began to make cabin lights and electrical signs for commercial aircraft – ‘fasten your safety belt’, for instance. However, by the 1970’s, they realised that they could not compete with the big boys and the manufacturing side was sold off. The company became Walters Workshops
Originally called Walters Electrical Manufacturing Co, the company provided electrical telegraph and other railway equipment to (mostly) South American railways, led by the original ‘Mr Walters’, an electrical engineer called Walter Powles. The directors today are his great grandchildren.
After the war it started to make interior electrics for commercial aircraft – cabin lights and signs like ‘fasten your safety belts’. In the 70’s though it became clear that there wasn’t a market for a small independent company doing this amongst the big boys, so the manufacturing side was sold off and Walters re-invented itself again to become Walters Workshops.
https://www.waltersworkshops.co.uk/history
Yes. Anything quoted verbatim would need to be marked as such and original sources noted.
I wonder unless we have a drupal dropout then @niallb will have all his articles dated on here.
There are also his emails and postings on Facebook which are all dated.
Thanks @hubert-rawlinson.
Drupal dropout is sadly very likely at our stage of life.
Copyright notices are more typically used under US law. Under UK law they have no real impact on the status of copyright protection (an article either enjoys copyright protection or it doesn’t, regardless of notice), although I suppose it’s possible they might theoretically deter an infringer.
As Hubert has said above, if your articles have been published on the Internet it shouldn’t be too difficult to document that they are yours and the dates on which you published them.
Thanks @Bingo-Little. They’re all on the WordPress site initially, so are dated there.
Marvellous, as per.