- Grouse Lodge
Grouse Lodge is a
recording studio in CountyWestmeath ,Ireland . Designed byAndy 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 ahealth spa as well ashomeopathic andherbal services.Artists
It has recorded artists such as
Snow Patrol ("Eyes Open "), [ [http://www.snowpatrol.net/gallery06/thumbnails.php?album=70 Snow Patrol recording in Grouse Lodge] "Snowpatrol.com" accessed November 13, 2006]Editors ("An End Has A Start "),Bloc Party ("A Weekend in the City "), Laminate,Doves ,Manic Street Preachers ,Skinsize Kings ,Tracy Pappas , Muse ("Absolution") andRoyseven ("The Art of Insincerity ") andMichael Jackson . [Maria Daly, "Pop king Michael Jackson interviewed in Rosemount," Athlone Advertiser [http://www.athloneadvertiser.ie/index.php?aid=2710] Last accessed 11 November 2006] R.E.M. used the studio to record their 14th studio album. [ [http://www.remhq.com/news_story.php?id=577 R.E.M.HQ: NEWS ] at www.remhq.com]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 instrumentsfact|date=October 2007.Awards
*Irish National Enterprise Awards 2003 - Winner [http://www.westmeath-enterprise.ie/page.aspx?page_id=135 "Westmeath Business Tops World Young Business Achievers Awards"] "Westmeath County Enterprise Board Ltd" retrieved November 13, 2006 ]
*World Young Business Achievers Award 2004 - Winner ]References
External links
[http://www.grouselodge.com Grouse Lodge Recording Studio's Homepage - www.grouselodge.com]
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