:: oceancolourtheme :: tour of moseley shoals

On July 4th 2001, Ocean Colour Scene began to leave the Moseley Shoals studio, their second home for over six years, ready for its reputed £250,000 sale to the Birmingham City Council. Set to be demolished in the Autumn to make way for a car-park in this rapidly developing area, Debris Road was invited to visit and capture the last few photos of the famed studio.

Originally called 'Outlaw Studios' and costing a mere £80,000, much of the band's finest material was recorded in this unobtrusive assortment of buildings, including the 1.2 million selling album of the same name plus platinum and gold selling follow-ups, 'Marchin' Already' and 'One From The Modern'.

Deriving its name from a friend of the band who commented that 'The Downstream' sounded like a track from 'Muscle Shoals', the legendary American studio famous for producing countless rhythm and blues classics in the 60s, Moseley Shoals has embodied much more than merely a recording studio and this is typified in tracks such as 'Huckleberry Grove' (an analogy for Moseley Shoals) and 'Debris Road' (which represents the street on which the studio lies).

This content originally from and © www.debrisroad.co.uk / Tom Broughton