Real to Reel Recording Studio
by DANIELLE MARSLAND
  • SEE THEM LIVE

    Fri Dec 18 to Wed Dec 23, 12pm-4pm (recordings 12pm-1.30pm + 2pm-3.30pm daily) at 278 William St, Northbridge (next door to the Butcher Shop). Schedule here.

  • WHAT

    Real to Reel Recording Studio

  • IMAGE

    Elizabeth Stacey, from the Bank Notes sessions

  • WHO

    Craig McElhinney, Taco Leg, Shock! Horror!, Ideal Family, Erasers, My Majestic Star, Simone and Girlfunkle, Split Seconds, The Hayley Beth Love Affliction, Stereoflower, Rabbit Island, Pond, Lazy Railway, Jesse Woodward, Div Craft & the Big Old Bears and Exodus Musica

published on 16th December, 2009

How good is spying on people!? Oh God, did we just say that out loud? Well, let’s face it, privacy’s on the way out: we live in an Orwellian world when you can take pictures of people with your sunglasses and Google knows everything.

The Foodchain folks live for those moments at night when people leave their loungeroom curtains open. They also love local music and have found a way to combine these sticky-beak moments with music: the Real to Reel Recording Studio.

Over six days, 16 local bands will head into the empty space at 278 William Street to record as much as they can in a couple of hours. The door will be open for you to come in, sit crosslegged on the floor, and spy on these intimate studio sessions to your heart’s content. Later that night you can download the bands’ rough and ready recordings for free online and own one-of-a-kind tracks from Perth bands like the trippy Tame Impala-offshoot Pond, Sean Pollard (New Rules For Boat’s) new project Split Seconds, scuzzy rockers Taco Leg, and more. How good is spying on people!?

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