Metropolis Group

And so I knew that it would be great to have a nice string arrangement, and certainly string arrangements for much of that record.

Ooh, darling, don't you Rupert Hine who produced the album he sought out this young British string arranger named Simon Hale who did the arrangements for In the Absence of Sun and he's basically done the arrangements for all of my records and Spring Awakening and Whisper House so we've had this great 16, 17 year collaboration but that was the thing of like when I first heard the song you know with kind of 17 players at Metropolis Studios in London it was like okay they're like that's You know,

there

it is.

But I can't take credit for this space.

I mean, you're talking about, you know, Earn Rose and a guy called Peter Brown, who was the architect, you know, an acoustic specialist and a builder that built Metropolis Studios.

And Metropolis Studios, you know, was held up as Australia's best recording studio.

It was based here in Melbourne, owned by Earn Rose.

So you think about all those years of experience and, that have then been put into Sabresound Studio.

Yeah, that took about two more days, so that takes it down to 359.

On the last episode, we learned about the problems the Fove's had encountered upon entering Metropolis Studios to record their third album with Shock Records.

The band would have been happy to be handed the keys to the large complex and let bass player Ted supervise the whole thing, as he had largely done on Thousand Yard Stare to great effect.

Instead, the band were allocated an engineer whose experience was limited to children's soundtrack songs.

Sometime in December 2003, awkwardly around Christmas time, the Fove's were ready to record their third album for Shock.

the band had been given the go-ahead to record at the legendary Metropolis Studios, once owned and operated by recording legend Bill Armstrong.

With my dear friend Bill Armstrong.

Right.