God Bless Mr Pete Doherty, Goose Studios and all who sail upon her.

After 14 years of producing some of the most eclectic and amazing music to ever come out of the back streets of Sydney, 

Goose is shedding it's old form and moving to a new premises.

Will it reemerge as Goose Mark 2 or is that Bird cooked?

Will it phoenix from the ashes or will it merely simmer beneath the surface, in  alight white wine sauce? Who knows!

But if you're gonna go, go big or go home and last night we gave Goose a fond farewell with Vittles and Tunes.

Here is the Mr Pete himself, on bass at the rear ;-)

Ah memories. 

Goose has been the local studio for locals for...well...fourteen years I guess would be the correct answer.

It's also been a big part of our history.

Like so many others, our first encounter with Goose was rehearsing in recording room (it was 'affordable' and close).

Our first recording session at Goose was during our Spacejunk Mission, helemd by the awesome Geedon Columbus/Donald Deep Jeffs.

We'd been recording up at Mangrove Mountain onto Analogue tapes and the tapes had been old stock, so they kind of fell apart and we decided to re-record two tracks for Spacejunk at Goose.

I made a mission patch for that but I didn't know how to spell Pete's last name at the time so he got listed as Pete.

Spacejunk came out before Nuevo Retro, which we were still working on at the same time as releasing Spacejunk.

Shortly thereafter we started on 'Carls' Chair', which we brought to Pete for mixing and Post production.

From Mixing engineer, Pete went on to become Recording Engineer and Producer on Hired Guns & Borrowed Glory, all the way to Bawley Point for recording but migrated back to goose for Mixing.

Goose has even appeared in a Videoclip :-)

Musician, Chef, Entrepreneur and Human of Excellence, Pete has been a valiant champion for those pilgrims brave enough to venture across the frozen tundra of Stereo Recording.

Many's the time we stood by the shores of Lake Doherty (or Goose lake, the water filled, permanently half finished building site next door) and talked nonsense, music or general vibes.

I know that Goose will be back in one form or another, but for now, we celebrate it's lifespan, raise a glass and give three cheers for Mr Pete Doherty and Goose Studios

Hip hip... 

Hurrah!

Hip hip... 

Hurrah!!