Talk:Windmill Lane Studios

Recording artists and facilities

Several things have been recorded at Windmill Lane Studios.

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The Irish Times

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Ghostly echoes as U2 studio is revived: date=2009-06-12: accessdate=2009-06-20

IN THE SUMMER of 1996, an American friend rolled into Dublin for a visit. Gigs and Irish pubs were high on her itinerary and as Dublin has more attractions than you can shake a shillelagh at, I asked what was top of her touristy list. Without missing a beat she replied “that U2 studio”, proof that Windmill Lane’s reputation doesn’t stop with Dubliners, or even musicians. No other studio in the capital has such a connection to U2, and its global reputation today is a long way from the anonymity of its beginnings as a humble studio on Dublin’s docks. Over the years it became a place of pilgrimage for the band’s fans, daubed with graffiti tributes which no one has had the heart to scrub off. Now, after a fallow period, there are big plans afoot for the studio under a new owner, Pulse Recording. Since 2006, Windmill Lane has been largely inactive, off the radar. While its new owner is reluctant to say who held the keys, it was widely reported that Van Morrison had acquired it for personal use. Wandering down to the studio, you can’t miss the distinctive building in Ringsend, Dublin 4, where it has been located for over 15 years. (The old site in Windmill Lane, where the fan-scribbled walls are, is now home to various post-production companies)... ...Windmill Lane is a very good studio, and not just because of its eye-watering Neve 72-channel mixing desk or its vintage microphone collection. A look back at the international acts that came calling here over the years proves its worth. David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Simple Minds, REM and Tom Jones have all recorded there. Perhaps because of U2’s association, Windmill Lane is often seen purely in terms of commercial popular music, but a raft of film scores were also recorded here, including those for A Room With a View, The Remains of the Day, The Mask and The Tailor of Panama. Composer Elmer Bernstein was a regular fixture and recorded scores for The Grifters, My Left Foot and A River Runs Through It in Studio One, one of the largest live rooms in the country. Outside of RTÉ, it is the only room in Ireland that can facilitate the recording of an 80-piece orchestra. Sitting proudly in the corner of this vast, lovely room is a Steinway grand piano, whose ivories have been tinkled by the likes of Brian Eno and Michael Nyman. Big-name producers regularly decamped to Windmill, including Morrissey’s long-time collaborator, Stephen Street, and Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, who worked at the studio on Elvis Costello’s album, Spike. Steve Lillywhite recorded Boy and War with U2, while Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois collaborated on the band’s Joshua Tree album. The production A-list goes on, including Nellee Hooper, Trevor Horn, Flood and Don Was. If Studio Two was often overshadowed by the orchestra capacity of Studio One, it’s “a more illustrious studio”, according to co-owner Tony Perrey. “It’s produced more number-one albums, from acts like The Spice Girls, Gabrielle and Kylie Minogue.

Article structure

This is a nice article, but it seems kind of top-heavy: the lead section is almost as long as the balance of the article, and contains much of the same detailed history and list of artists and albums done at the studio. I would suggest consolidating some of the detail and lists in the body of the article, and reducing the lead to be a more general summary of the history and importance of the studio. Wasted Time R (talk) 03:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Repetition

Chunks of the lede are repeated in the "history" section. needs addressing. Sarah777 (talk) 17:12, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Added a section and allowed TOC

As is noted above in earlier comments, there remains something difficult about the style and structure of this article. The opening three paragraphs read like a period piece and the mysterious No Table of Contents as the format also adds to the feeling of reading a long and winding novel. Not sure what to do here, but for now I've broken the lede with a section and allowed the TOC. Alas, it now needs sorting around a bit for coherent structure. Just explaining my edit for now. I'll attempt to return for some style work. This article is rather flowery with prose, actually... All the best! Fylbecatulous talk 22:12, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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