Grouse Lodge

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Grouse Lodge is a recording studio in County Westmeath, Ireland. Designed by Andy Munro it has two studios and living quarters in nine stone outhouses, integrating the existing 275 year old stone structure. It advertises itself as Ireland's only residential studio, mainly because of the facilities it offers to recording artists which include a health spa as well as homeopathic and herbal services.

Artists

It has recorded artists such as Bell X1, The Gloaming McFly ("Motion In The Ocean"), Snow Patrol (Eyes Open, A Hundred Million Suns),[1]Editors (An End Has A Start), Bloc Party (A Weekend in the City), Laminate, Duman (Duman I and Duman II) Doves, Manic Street Preachers (tracks from their Lifeblood and Send Away The Tigers albums), Skinsize Kings, Tracy Pappas, Muse (Absolution) and Royseven (The Art of Insincerity) and Michael Jackson.[2] R.E.M. used the studio to record their 14th studio album.[3]

Artists have chosen to record in Grouse Lodge in the past to either take advantage of its remote location or, as in the case of Japanese singer/songwriter Hitomi Yaida, to try to produce an 'authentic' Celtic sound to their records with the use of local session musicians using traditional instruments.[citation needed]

Awards

  • Irish National Enterprise Awards 2003 - Winner[4]
  • World Young Business Achievers Award 2004 - Winner[4]

References

  1. ↑ Snow Patrol recording in Grouse Lodge Snowpatrol.com accessed November 13, 2006
  2. ↑ Maria Daly, "Pop king Michael Jackson interviewed in Rosemount," Athlone Advertiser Last accessed 11 November 2006
  3. ↑ R.E.M.HQ: NEWS at www.remhq.com
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Westmeath Business Tops World Young Business Achievers Awards" Westmeath County Enterprise Board Ltd retrieved November 13, 2006

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