Premises Studios Ltd

The Premises started life in 1986 as a couple of rooms behind a mini-cab office on Hackney Rd, a few doors along from where we are now. Originally a jazz hangout, the studios expanded with the Brit Pop explosion – Pulp were regulars, Blur wrote ‘Beard’ about the Premises (B side of ‘Parklife’) and Suede helped dig out the basement in return for studio time. Brett Anderson remembers...“We would rehearse at a place called the Premises, a shabby, old townhouse rehearsal room on Hackney Road. I think it's still there. It was draughty and scruffy and naturally noisy but kind of cosy. There was sweet tea and paraffin heaters, and the smell of stale smoke and sweat and the cigarette butts of a thousand unsigned bands.”