All posts tagged: Kinks

Historic London music studio where The Kinks, Adele and Sir Paul McCartney recorded faces demolition

Historic London music studio where The Kinks, Adele and Sir Paul McCartney recorded faces demolition

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This A historic music studio where the likes of The Kinks and indie rockers Foals have recorded has been threatened with demolition after standing tall for decades. Battery Studios, in Willesden north London, has been a community-led music studio since 1980 with artists such as Adele, Supergrass, Iron Maiden, Paul McCartney and more gracing its recording booths. Now, its producers are fighting to preserve the historic building and save it from being demolished and replaced with nine residential units and three commercial units. Park Investments, the landlord of Battery Studios since 2005, submitted a planning application to Brent Council on 26 February. Studio co-manager Mark Ellis, better known by his producer name Flood, said the group of business owners working in the studios were unaware of the planning application as they signed on for another year of subletting that same month. Planning applications intend …

The Kinks star Dave Davies says Moby made ‘clumsy mistake’ in Lola comments

The Kinks star Dave Davies says Moby made ‘clumsy mistake’ in Lola comments

Published by Sam Flores

The Kinks star Dave Davies believes Moby made “a clumsy mistake” by condemning their song Lola as “gross and transphobic”. Porcelain star Moby hit headlines after he told The Guardian that hearing the 1970 track on a Spotify playlist left him “taken aback” by what he viewed as outdated themes and Dave – who rose to fame in The Kinks alongside his brother Sir Ray Davies – hit back declaring he was “highly insulted” by the musician’s comments about his sibling’s lyrics. Now Dave has opened up about the row and revealed he was worried Moby’s comments could cause a major backlash against the band even though there is “nothing nasty” about Lola. He told The Telegraph newspaper: “I found it quite upsetting that he said it [Lola] was transphobic and old-fashioned. “I worried that it could turn people against us because it can feel like people are becoming weirder by the day. They are always quick to judge and make assumptions about others. It is very rigid thinking. They don’t know that there is …

Moby slammed by Dave Davies for calling The Kinks’ song Lola ‘transphobic’

Moby slammed by Dave Davies for calling The Kinks’ song Lola ‘transphobic’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The Kinks’ Dave Davies has suggested Moby should be “careful what he says” after the fellow musician slammed his band’s classic song, “Lola”. The American artist name-checked the single by the British rock band in a Q&A about his “honest playlist”, in which he chose songs for certain moods or situations. Asked by The Guardian about the song he could “no longer listen to”, he named “Lola” after it came up on a Spotify playlist: “I thought the lyrics were gross and transphobic,” he said. “I like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are.” Responding on X, Davies, 79, wrote: “I don’t wanna show the guy up, but Moby should be careful what he says.” He recalled The Cockettes, an LGBTQ+ theatre community formed in San Francisco, following the band around on tour: “We appreciated …