Blackwing Studios

Blackwing Studios was housed inside the deconsecrated Church of Hallows in South-East London. It was most notable for early Depeche Mode and Yazoo recordings in the early Eighties. The in-house engineer was Eric Radcliffe who worked on most of the early Mute Records recordings alongside Daniel Miller [Page 27, Depeche Mode Biography, Steve Malins] Daniel Miller had discovered Blackwing when recording Silicon Teens. He had required a studio with a big control room where he could set up all his synthesisers. [Page 27, Depeche Mode Biography, Steve Malins]
Yazoo named one of their albums after the studio, 'Upstairs at Eric's'. [Page 28, Depeche Mode Biography, Steve Malins]

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