When Liverpool’s Grammy award winning Parr Street studios was forced to close to make way for redevelopment, many feared the city was losing a priceless cultural asset.
Over the years the city centre studio witnessed the likes of Coldplay, Rhianna, Echo and The Bunnymen, and Take That and many local artists that used the space to lay down their own music. Its previous owners had worked for close to a decade to find a new owner who could potentially help continue its operation, but with the studio downsizing and the same amount of space needing to be maintained, the decision was taken to redevelop the site.
This came as a blow, however in-house producers Rich Turvey, 36, and Chris Taylor, 41, were upbeat about the future. "People make records – buildings don’t,” the pair said in a statement shortly after the plans were announced in 2020.
