National Album Day Studio Events

Ziggy Stardust Atmos Album Playback at Trident Studios where it was recorded and Q&A session.

With multiple timed entry sessions starting early evening, there will be an uninterrupted listen to the complete album in Dolby Atmos followed by an informal Q&A with Ken Scott and Emre Ramazanoglu to answer any questions about the album and how this new mix was completed at RAK studios. Followed by drinks and snacks at the pub just around the corner.

Tickets for this event are for MPG Full Members only, please select your preferred time slot when booking.

With thanks to Howard Bargroff at Formosa Group the current owners of The Trident Studios site.

Kempston Street Studios – Gary by Blossoms –
The UK’s CURRENT number 1 album

On 19th October 2024, as part of National Album Day, Kempston Street will open its doors to the public between 2pm and 5pm and allow access to the behind-the-scenes-making of this album.

The album continues a long-standing relationship between Blossoms and the team behind Kempston Street Studios (formerly Parr Street Studios) in Liverpool.   All three directors of of the studio (James Skelly, Richard Turvey and Chris Taylor) have been instrumental in Blossoms meteoric rise to success – and collectively they are responsible for all of Blossoms recorded output to date.  The latest album – Gary – was recorded in Kempston Street Studio 1 in the early part of the 2024 and released on 20th September 2024.   It was officially recognised as the top selling album of the week by the official charts company on 27th September 2024.   The third single from the album – Perfect Me – is currently sitting on both the Radio 2 A-list and Radio 1 B-list.

On 19th October, Kempston Street will open its doors to allow the public access to see how this record was made.   The event will be hosted by Chris Taylor who recorded and engineered this album.   He will be playing isolated parts of the multitrack to reveal the individual instruments involved in putting the record together and will share some anecdotes about the processes.  There will then be an opportunity to hear the songs from the album played back in Dolby Atmos in their Atmos-equipped mix room.

Tickets for this event are free – but places are extremely limited.
Login to the MPG website and sign up as a free Basic Member to reserve your place.

Echotown Studio are celebrating Great British Bands for National Album Day!

The band will be tracked onto tape and the musicians are a mixture of both disabled and non-disabled musicians.
They will be performing songs by Great British Bands who had record selling albums and who had one band member with a disability. Then, in the afternoon, our engineer, Gareth Matthews, will mix these songs using the analogue method that the albums would have been originally mixed with.

This is an amazing opportunity to witness traditional analogue recording and mixing methods used to record a band and is a free open day, starting at 10am and finishing at 4pm 

Tickets for this event are free – but places are extremely limited.
Login to the MPG website and sign up as a free Basic Member to reserve your place.