Dawn Ray’d: “You don’t have to ask for permission to make things better”

The Stationhouse in Leeds used to be a police station. From the outside, it still looks like one, so much so that it’s not unknown for people to knock on the door asking to speak to the plod. As with so many old buildings that have been repurposed into recording facilities, some of the features can actually cross over into the place’s new function rather well. In The Stationhouse’s case, a collection of small rooms quite easily became good, ready-made isolation booths, in which bands could put a guitar amp, or record vocals. “Those rooms must have been old holding cells,” says Fabian Devlin. ​“It was a bit strange to be recording in a place like that, something that from our perspective is despicable, and for it to now be somewhere we can be creative and explo...

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