Gooseberry Sound Studios

Small 8 Track recording studio in London active from the 1970's to the early 1990s. It was located in a cellar underneath a dental practise in the centre of London's Chinatown in Soho. Opening in the early 70s as an 8-track demo studios it featured a custom built Richardson desk and an 8-tack Brenell tape machine. By 1976 the studio had gone 16 track bringing in the newly released Soundcraft Series 3 desk and an Ampex tape machine. January 1979 would provide the studio with its biggest commercial success when Gary Numan entered the 16-track for five days to record the Replicas album. 'Are Friends Electric' would spend four weeks at the top of the charts and the album would also reach the number one spot. Now closed.