Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was set up in Dublin in 1977 as a partnership between Andrew Boland and Fran Quigley. It was initially located on Harcourt Street and was an 8-track studio when launched. The studio catered mostly to the traditional Irish market, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady who recorded in the studio. The location on Harcourt Street is remembered as being in the basement of a building. In 1979, Andrew Boland partnered with Ken Kiernan to continue running the studio. They continued to work out of Harcourt Street while the new studio was located, and built. The new location was at the rear of 22 St. Stephen’s Green. The Keystone studio was in operation until 1984, when it was purchased by Windmill Lane and renamed Windmill Lane Two, which operated as a studio up until 1990. Sting was one of the first paying clients in this new location where he recorded demos for Zenyatta Mondatta Studio 2 closed in the early 1990s, and the final band to record there was the Cranberries who were working on their debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? at the time.