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Some of the Artists and Bands that Recorded and Rehearsed at SOS (Square One Studios )
July 1980 – March 1987
Accelerators, Action Transfer, Acuff Rose, Afraid of Mice, Andy Wilson, Arena, Atherton
Balcony, Better Frights, Bill Gordon, Bleep Culture, Box Records, Broadoak Ads, Blue Van, Brian Smith, Black
Carnival, Craig Charles, Carl Chase, Charlie Lansborough, Carl Eaton, Caswell, Cave Canem, Curly Music, Check,
Cherry Boys, Cook Da Books, Crew, Cross Section, Chinese Religion, Cloud Nine
Dalek I Love You, Dead or Alive, Dee & the Dots, Denise Jardine, Drills
Echo & the Bunnymen, Egyptians, Eric’s Records, Ewart, Excomunicated
Fat Wallet Records (became Groovin' Records), Flock of Seagulls, Faith Moore, John Fairclough,
F B Percussion, Ferret,
Frantic Elevators, Force It, Formal Sigh, French Lessons, Front Room, Foreign Bodies, Finger Print File
Gazz & the Groovers, Gary Gannacliffe, Glass Animals, Genetic Grade, Geoff White, Gold Rush, Glass Torpedoes,
Grown Up Strange, Godot
Henchmen, High Five, High Tease, Hit Machine, Hoffman Stone
It’s Immaterial, Icicle Works, Ian Brodie, Inevitable Records, Incomplete Reunion, Interns, IHM,
Karl Terry, Kashmir, K- Meson, Khartoum Foot, Kindergarden
Jayne Casey, John Seddon, Jump
Lawnmower, Love Ponies (Bill Nighy), Lee Brennan, Laylow Management, Lies All Lies, Love Fountains, Liverpool Harriers
Mick Hucknall, Madame, Mandrake, MI5, Mike Rodgers, Milton, Modern Eon, Mogodons, Motion Pictures, Movie, Max Rooks
Nervous Desire, Neuklon
Orchestral Manoeuvres, Outland Drop
Pale Fountains, Pete Fulwell, Pink Military, Papujack, Pieces of Glass, Pictures of Innocence,
Pollard, Ponderosa Glee Boys, Prance, Prentin, Protégé, Public Disgrace, Pure Fiction
Roger Eagle, Reverb Brothers, Radio Merseyside, Radio City, Rage, Rigby, Rob Jones, Room,
Robbie Pollard, RPM, Roger, Rooks, Rox Records, Rainhill Tape Specialists.
Savage Lucy, Screams, Sidewalk, Sinek, Skeleton Records, Skeptic, Slippers,
Smoking Beagles, Sparta Florida, Student Factor, Straight to the Point, Strangeways, Stringer,
Supercharge, Spiral Dance, Strogoff
Think of Winter, Tilt, Twisted Nerves, Tony Judge, Tradition, Treazon, Tunnel Users, Unit Q
Vain Hope, Vanilla Beserk, Vox Arcana, Virgin Dance, Visual Aids
Wah! Heat, Walter Mitty, Wharburton, Pike, Widow, Wind Up, Woods, Word
Zale Out, Zeebra, Zsigmond
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Square One Studios front cover of the NME 17th January 1981 with Washington the bassman of WAH! HEAT
| Square One Studios (SOS) 11 Davies Street Liverpool (Available Recorded Works 1979 - 1987 ) Page 1 - Vinyl | |||||
| Date | Artist | Tracks | 7" | 12" | |
| 1979 | 29th & Dearborn | Stealer/Put Your Love in Me | " | ||
| 1980 | Pink Industry | Is This the End, 47, Don't Let Go, Final Cry | |||
| 1980 | Roger Eagle (DJ) | Juke Box at Eric's | |||
| 1980/81 | WAH! | The Maverick Years: Side 1: Remember, Somesay, The Truth about Eddie, The Checkmate Syndrome, I Know there is Something | |||
| (Eternal) | Side 2: Shambeko, Sleep, Otherboys, What's Happening Here? Seven Minutes to Midnight, The Bible or Maths | ||||
| 1981 | Frantic Elevators | Searchin’ for the Only One/Hunchback of Notre Dame | " | ||
| 1981 | Front Room | Joe Public/Camera | " | ||
| 1981 | Faction | Side 1: Jamaica Day, Disney, Ritual, Faction, Far Away, Crazy People | " | ||
| (Nicky Hilton) | Side 2: Directive 59, Shanghi, Ritual 2, Burning Feet, Vienna, Tired of Love | " | |||
| 1981 | It's Immaterial | Imitate the Worm/The Worm Turns | " | ||
| 1982 | Cook the Books | Piggie in the Middle Eight/Gone to Black | |||
| 1982 | Cherry Boys | Kardomah Cafe/ | " | ||
| 1984 | Dementia | Side 1: Easy Way Out, Fear, I'm Gonna | |||
| (Skysaw) | Side 2: Written in Blood, Embarkation, Basic Feeling, Back in the States | ||||
| 1985 | Always the Now | From Dawn ‘til Dusk/C’est La Vie | " | ||
| 1985 | Bamboo Fringe | Side 1: The Hands of Time, Turn on the Lights, | " | ||
| (Skysaw Records) | Side 2: Under Attack, All to Safe, Crazy People, Life & Times | " | |||
| 1985 | Gone to Earth | Side 1: Tippin' It Up to Nancy, Rose of York | |||
| (Probe Plus) | Side 2: John Ryan's Polka, Home by Bearma, Endbit | ||||
| Folk in Hell: Rendezvous | |||||
| 1985 | Merseysippi Jazz Band | Side 1: Oh, You California, The Whitewash Man, Get out and Get Under, Funky Butt, Muddy Water, Emporer Norton's Hunch | " | ||
| (Clinton Ford) | Side 2: My Cutey's Due at 2.22, Chicago Buzz, Mandy, Cornet Chop Suey, Eedilia, Once In a While | " | |||
| 1986 | Electric Morning | Side 2: Kalahari Rain, Reap What you Sow, Electric | " | ||
| (James Turner) | How Could We be Wrong, Crossing Over, The Heaven Inside | " | |||
| 1986 | Gerry Markey | Oh! John/St Joseph of Paradise Street | " | ||
| 1987 | The Lawnmower | Thin Man/Could Have! | " | ||
| " " | The Cat: Side1: The Cat, South American Cousin, Jumpin' High,The Boys are Back in Town | " | |||
| Side 2: Smokin' Joe, Cry, Cry, Cry, Hit the Road Jack. | " | ||||
| 1988 | The Lawnmower | Messin' with the Blues: Side 1: Messin' with the Blues, Radio Active TV Man, Music is the Food of Love | " | ||
| Wasteland, In England and in Africa | " | ||||
| Side 2: Thin Man, Got to Change, From the Loveless Motel, Got my Mojo Workin' | " | ||||
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Carnival |
From Strawberry Fields - Eyes Growing Wider/In the Heat of the Night recorded at SOS released on 12" vinyl Firestation Records Berlin Germany 2019 played and promoted by DJ Giles Peterson.
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Revolutionary Spirit 1976-1988 The Sound of Liverpool |
Please Note that 20% of the tracks on this 5CD set on Cherry Red Records where produced at SOS Kardomah Cafe by The Cherry Boys was recorded at SOS (1980-87) in 1983 not Crash Studios (1987-2007) |
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WAH! Pete recording The Maverick Years at SOS 1980
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Pete Coleman Sound Engineer for The Maverick Years joined forces with AL Peters to form SOS Photo by Jef Barnes
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Some of the Albums produced from Square One Studio Master Tapes
'Juke Box at Eric's' WAH! 'The Maverick Years' WAH! 'The Official Bootleg'
'Pink Industry' (Pink Military) Gone To Earth 'Folk in Hell' The Lawnmower 'The Cat'
Some of the 7" Singles recorded at Square One Studios
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Frantic Elevators |
Gerry Markey |
Always the Now |
The Lawnmower |
The Cherry Boys |
Friends & Faces who Played & Worked @ SOS
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Antonia de Sancha |
Craig Charles & Phil checkin out photos at SOS 1982 |
Nicola |
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The Reverb Brothers (Col & Jim) The early years were always accompanied by a Juke Box |
Mike Score A Flock of Seagulls were a common sight around 1985 to 1987 |
Chumpki & Friend ( The Lawnmower backing singers 'The Lawndrettes' Angie & Lyn were the original dancin duo ) |
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Paul Morgan (SOS Sound Engineer) |
Chumpki (Trainee Engineer) & Mike 'Noddy' Knowler (SOS Sound Engineer) |
Tex (Trainee Studio Manager) |
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Mike Saunders & Adrian Henri Workin on a late mix of 'Wasteland'. "I sadly miss Adrian" |
Frank Maudsley Relaxes durin AFOS rehearsals. He became The Lawnmower bassman for a while. |
Wylie & Friends Relax at the Everyman Bistro after recordin 'The Maverick Years'
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Craig Charles Assemblin Studio Art
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A Complete Flock of Seagulls A rare sightin |
Adrian Henri Recordin Wasteland
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Studio Boss AL Peters Arrangin the Furniture |
Occasionally seen in the Studio Office Cookin the Books |
Albie bein Albie Durin Supercharge Rehearsals |
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Martin Dempsi & Geoff Another late night session |
John, Con & Henry at the Albert on the night of John Lennon's Murder |
The Icicle Works at St Georges Hall to commemorate the life of Lennon. |
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Roger Eagle at Square One Studios Mastering Juke Box at Eric's Photo by Francesco Mellina |
The Boss - Studer A 80 1" 8 Track (SOS)
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Studio Boss AL Peters Photo by Jef Barnes
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If you used Square One Studios and your name is not included
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