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74B Trafalgar St Recording Studios
The Art Deco building at 74B Trafalgar Street Annandale, was built following the sale of the land in a sub-division of 3 Collins St Annandale. 3 Collins St, was once the home of Sydney Lord Mayor Arthur Allen Taylor.
There are reports that 74B Trafalgar Street may have been a shoe factory at one time, but it's most significant contribution is to Australian Music.
It has had at least three incarnations as a music recording studio. As Trafalgar Studios it recorded the likes of Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly and Cold Chisel. Later as Electrict Avenue Studios it was where Kerrie Anne Cox's recorded Return to Country. Its next incarnation was as Emu Music Studios recording Christian Music.
Now Development Application D/2009/474 seeks to demolish 74B Trafalgar Street.
Remediation of the site, demolition of existing buildings and construction of two (2) new dwellings with torrens title subdivision. This application relies on a SEPP No.1 objection to floor space ratio. Exhibition Closes: 14/01/10- Applications on Exhibition (8 Dec 09)
DA 74B Trafalgar St was discussed & the following issues were raised – the building should be
heritage listed because of its past as a sound studio & its association with icon Australian band which
used it, overshadowing, the FSR, impact on neighbours & affect on adjoining sites, & matters related to
demolition - minutes Annandale Precinct Meeting – 7/12/09
- "Trafalgar Studios was where many influential bands of the 70-80s in Sydney recorded their albums...."Wikipedia
- Electrict Avenue Studios - myspace
- Annandale studio recorded in history: When a group of kids calling themselves Cold Chisel turned up on Charles Fisher’s doorstep, he sympathised with them and gave them complimentary time in his recording studio....Around the same time he dealt with a group of “very serious young men” called Midnight Oil.
inner-west-courier
- EMU MUSIC OF AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED 74b Trafalgar St Annandale, NSW, Australia 2038 -www.mfgpages.com
- 74b Trafalgar Street, ANNANDALE Sold: Thursday, 28 August 2008 - www.bentons.com
- Electric Avenue Studios 74b Trafalgar St Annandale NSW 2038 - au.vicdir.com
- "Trafalgar Studio' one of Australia's best known recording studios - commercialrealestate.com.au
- Trafalgar Studios 74B Trafalgar Street Annandale -
- "The studio was at 74B Trafalgar Street, Annandale, conducted by Chaluz Enterprises Pty Ltd, Recording and Production Company. John Metcalfe’s
and my involvement in its design and construction was from June 1973 to October 1974." -
www.rossthorne.com
Tracks Recorded at 74b Trafalgar Street, Annandale
Midnight Oil - Head Injuries (Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney, Australia July / August, 1979)
www.discogs.com
Cold Chisel began recording demoes at Trafalgar Studios in Sydney for their first album.
www.coldchisel.com.au
Paul Kelly
1986 Single BEFORE TOO LONG (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1986 Single DARLING IT HURTS (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1987 Single LEAPS AND BOUNDS / BRADMAN (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1987 Single LOOK SO FINE, FEEL SO LOW (PK&CG) (Recorded & mixed at Alberts and Trafalgar Studios)
1987 Album UNDER THE SUN (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1988 Single FORTY MILES TO SATURDAY NIGHT (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1988 Single DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO THE WINDOW (PK&CG)(Recorded & Mixed at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1990 Sinlge POURING PETROL ON A BURNING MAN (PK&M) (Recorded at Paradise Studios and Trafalgar Studios)
1991 Single DON'T START ME TALKING (PK&M)(Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
1991 Album COMEDY (PK&M) (Recorded & mixed at Trafalgar Studio, Sydney)
1991 Single KEEP IT TOO YOURSELF (PK&M) (Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney)
-www.amws.com.au
Career of the Silly Thing
Tost Rust Host; Cut You Up; The Galaxy is Dead; Life on a Bed; No Mattresses in Heaven; Career of the Silly Thing; Escape Via Cessnock; 4 Or 5; Remember May 12th; The Little Eye; The Entire Combine/Capital of Sweden.
A Tim Whitten production recorded at Electric Avenue Studio, Sydney. No Shane Fahey as band is reduced to a 5 piece.
Release Date: October 1985
Review: "Scattered Order have produced their most cohesive work to date, one of concision yet also of spontaneity and adventurousness. This is lean music with a smooth, hard surface, but not without dips and curves." Clinton Walker 1985 -
www.scatteredorder.com
Side a: “Every Beat Of My Heart”.
(Garth Porter). (Razzle). v: Jon English, Renee Geyer. Jon English appears courtesy of Midnight Records. Produced by Charles Fisher & John Sayers. Recorded at Trafalgar Studios & ATA Studios.
www.tvmem.com
This album marks a new direction for Australian Christian rock music. TRAFALGAR STREET was a labour of love for Revive. The CD title is based on the band's location at Trafalgar Studios in Sydney - koorong.com
DIED PRETTY
Produced and Engineered by Hugh Jones • Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney - www.citadelmailorder.com
3 Collins St and Allen Taylor
Plan of north Annandale municipality of Leichhardt / the property of the Sydney Freehold, Land, Building & Investment Coy. Ltd., W. Pritchard & Son, auctioneers, 100 King St., Sydney -NLA
Sales plan for north Annandale. (1890) -NLA
TAYLOR, Sir ALLEN ARTHUR (1864-1940)
He felt sufficiently secure in business by 1895 to stand for the Borough Council of Annandale, where he lived, an inner western suburb of Sydney at the centre of the timber-milling and shipping trade. -adbonline.anu.edu.au
An alderman on the Sydney Municipal Council, he represented Pyrmont Ward (1902-12) and Bourke Ward (1915-24). Persuading parliament to grant the council additional powers of resumption and borrowing money, as lord mayor in 1905-06 and 1909-12 Taylor embarked on a vigorous programme of civic improvement. - adbonline.anu.edu.au
Sir Allen Taylor, M.L.C., one of Sydney's' best known business men, died suddenly at the age of 76, at his home, in Centennial Park on friday -
newspapers.nla.gov.au
Allen Taylor and Co. Limited which had been taken over by BMI in 1970 - www.boral.com.au
Allen Taylor, of Collins-street, Annandale - newspapers.nla.gov.au
...Moving to Sydney about 1882, he attended night-school while working for railway contractors. He was a clerk when he married Adela Mary Elliott, daughter of a coach proprietor, on 19 June 1886 with Presbyterian forms at Annandale. - adbonline.anu.edu.au
"The Council's Amendment Bill, however was assented to on 9 december 1905, in part due to the entreaties of Lord Mayor Allen Taylor,a 'self-made' man who , it was though, would not allow his mid to run wild with notions of municipal socialism." - page 32, the Accidental City
'Improvement' and 'beautification' were seen to be central to human and environmental efficiency and thus to material progress. Lord Mayor Allen Taylor, a timber merchant and ship-owner, embaked ruthlessly on 'civic improvement until his retirement in 1912' Taylor was to inform his fellow aldermen in a minute of 1906, that even parks should be maintained at 'the highest stated of efficiency' Parks were not only 'the lungs of the city' and a manifestation of civic pride and worth, they were morally and mentally uplifting and thus reacted on human efficency." - page 34, the Accidental City
Politically conservative, Taylor joined the Citizens Reform Association which broke Labor's domination of the City Council in 1921. Allen Taylor was clearly concerned with national efficiency. But he was far more interested in demolishing what he believed to be uneconomic slum areas, in building factories and warehouses in the City and in improving urban transport facilities than with housing displaced people - page 41, the Accidental City
During 1912, Allen Taylor and other aldermen, supported conservative Lord Mayor George Clarke's attempt to rescind a 1908 resolution and increase the maximum height of buildings from 150 to 200 feet. - page 41 the Accidental City
In 1917, at the request of the Lord Mayor Meagher, Alderman Taylor MLC chaired the NSW section of the first Australian Town Planning conference in Adelaide. Walter Burley Griffin argued at the conference for planning for economy in its broadest sense and opted for direct, more aggressive intervention in the moulding of the physical enviroment. He indicated the strong desire of planning lobbyists to identify their discipline with sound business practice as well as the scientific method, which was also bing applied in the factory, through Taylorism, and in the home, through the soon-to-blossom domestic science movemement...a system of trial and error - experiments and progressive accomplishments' - pages 45-48 the Accidental City
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