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Cargo Studios
Oct. 4th, 2009 03:19 pmI never knew that New Order/Joy Division, OMD and The Fall (and loads more) recorded 1 km from where I was born and grew up at Cargo Studios, Rochdale.
According to Andy McCluskey who was just on the radio, they've just been putting blue plaques up on these locations, including where Cargo Studios was with Peter Hook. Shame they didn't support the likes of the Hacienda and Factory offices and knocked them down - I suppose it's cheaper to put up plaques than actually KEEP the culture rather than let it go away like all the industry. Not that I'm bitter or anything...:-(
Predictably for that area it's an empty shell...yup the area has returned to and in fact gotten worse since the 1970's, total industrial blight and emptiness, Last time I was near there I was shocked that there were empty factories and the shops were gone, but a lot more houses (less green areas and farmland of my youth) also more racially mixed than what I remember growing up and there's a lot of tension there stoked up by the BNP.
Still weird to think that while I was 4-6 years old some of my later musical heroes where recording less than 1km down the road, probably in sight of the same Tandle Hill and monument I used to go play.
EDIT: John Peel invested in the guy who set up Cargo (John Brierley) as Dandelion Studios as part of the band Tractor (later released on Dandelion Records, John Peel's label) and helped it develop because he worked at Townhead Mill, Rochdale in the 60's after National Service.
Wow. Weird finding out stuff you never knew of the place you grew up...
According to Andy McCluskey who was just on the radio, they've just been putting blue plaques up on these locations, including where Cargo Studios was with Peter Hook. Shame they didn't support the likes of the Hacienda and Factory offices and knocked them down - I suppose it's cheaper to put up plaques than actually KEEP the culture rather than let it go away like all the industry. Not that I'm bitter or anything...:-(
Predictably for that area it's an empty shell...yup the area has returned to and in fact gotten worse since the 1970's, total industrial blight and emptiness, Last time I was near there I was shocked that there were empty factories and the shops were gone, but a lot more houses (less green areas and farmland of my youth) also more racially mixed than what I remember growing up and there's a lot of tension there stoked up by the BNP.
Still weird to think that while I was 4-6 years old some of my later musical heroes where recording less than 1km down the road, probably in sight of the same Tandle Hill and monument I used to go play.
EDIT: John Peel invested in the guy who set up Cargo (John Brierley) as Dandelion Studios as part of the band Tractor (later released on Dandelion Records, John Peel's label) and helped it develop because he worked at Townhead Mill, Rochdale in the 60's after National Service.
Wow. Weird finding out stuff you never knew of the place you grew up...
