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From Sun Records to Studio One, Meeksville to Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang, some of the most visionary music of the last sixty years is linked forever with the specific studio in which it was recorded. There’s a special alchemy associated with these places - more than just rooms full of mics recording sound, they breed a magic and myth of their own. Just the names alone are enough to send a shiver down the spine of most music fans.

So, then, to The Steamrooms. Being the well-informed pop scholars that they are, Isle Of Wight six-piece A Band Of Bees knew that before they could record their third album they first needed to build their own studio, somewhere they could find their own sound. Forsaking vocalist/producer Paul Butler’s shed (where 2003’s Mercury-nominated debut was hatched) and Abbey Road (where they made 2005’s Free The Bees), the band duly spent a year constructing their wood-lined sonic laboratory in the basement of Paul and fellow founding member Aaron Fletcher’s Isle of Wight home. With walls and floor of pine, it looks most like a Scandinavian sauna. They started jokingly referring to it as The Steamroom and the name stuck. Then the band set out equipping the place, filling it with vintage instruments, amps and recording equipment to get exactly the right sound. An early 1960s mixing desk was recovered from a Swedish radio station, while serious eBay habits were developed.

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datiswous wrote:
June 2009

Yes they are THE BEES all album covers agree on that, but not in the USA...............................................

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fukmeimfamous wrote:
May 2009

yeah, i hope they convert all the "a band of bees" scrobbles to "the bees" sometime soon... my ac has been scrobbling them as a band of bees for ages, but yeah, it's THE BEES THE BEES THE BEES!!!

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Applecrumble wrote:
March 2009

THE BEES...............simple as. Maybe Free The Bees is a secret message to us to say free the real name from the imposed one... FREE THE BEES! FREE THE BEES!

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tegotetab wrote:
November 2008

fun and delicious wonderful times

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Lord Mike wrote:
October 2008

a band of bees? what the..

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ConnyG wrote:
March 2008

Gotta love The Bees. Bloody American band making The Bees change to A Band Of Bees. Atrocious! The Bees, The Bees!

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blackbirdtattoo wrote:
March 2008

so is it the album title 'free the bees' that started all the confusion about this band's actual name?? dear freedb.org and woxy.com and everyone else: DUDE, IT'S A BAND OF BEES. 2 of 3 album covers agree. i'm lookin' right at them.

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astriddd wrote:
January 2008

these are the ghosts has my heart <3

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megatoad wrote:
July 2007

bzzzzzz

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EGO458 wrote:
September 2006

I actually didn't like this before?

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MaggotBrainz wrote:
April 2006

The Bees The Bees The Bees reeewreeow

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