It’s a blustery Friday afternoon outside on the streets of Hackney, but in the belly of storied recording studio The Premises, Black Country, New Road are giving us a spirited tour of the famous faces that have frequented the building.
Down in the basement lock-up, cages are filled with cases attributed to Laura Marling and Jarvis Cocker; one time, explains guitarist Luke Mark, they saw Charli xcx’s name written on the studio board. “We opened the door and there was just an open laptop in the middle of an empty room,” he remembers, forlornly. If nothing else, however, quite a fitting metaphor for the reigning queen of online culture.
