The ZM Live Lounge Sessions 09 Every year for the last five years, ZM in association with iTunes have organised 5 top New Zealand bands to perform live in York Street in front of 30 or 40 liseners.. The bands play eight songs live and York Street records the performance. Late at night we mix 5 of these songs per band and have them ready for airplay on ZM the next day and then the tracks are available for download on iTunes very soon after. This year we had Midnight Youth, Motocade, Nathan King, The Checks and Jordon Luck. A great week! These Photographs were taken by Auckland Photographer Steve Dykes.

The Flying Nun 21st birthday celebration To celebrate their 21st anniversary, Flying Nun recorded an entire album at York Street Studios in one day. Titled "Under The Influence" Flying Nun artists from around the world came for the event. All of the photographs below (and the photos at the top right of our web pages) were taken by Fraser Harding, one of Auckland's premier photographers.

Autozamm Recording of the Autozamm album during September 07

One Million Dollars Live / August 07 What a day to be working at a studio! Local band One Million Dollars recorded their latest album totally live in front of a "studio audience" The result sounds fantastic and the atmosphere in the studio that day was captured in the recording. A huge job for York Street Head engineer Justin Maudesley and his assistants and they pulled it off without a hitch. The resulting mixes are on high rotate at York Street..You have to get this album, these guys are tight as! Photos taken by George Chang.

Three houses down Three houses down album was recorded here at York Street in May 2007. This root Reggae album was essentially tracked live, with all members of the band playing at once. (by local producer Nick Manders) The playing was fantastic, the staff were well catered for food wise ( which we love!) and the Kava was flowing freely. What a wonderful session to be involved with. Another good few weeks at work!

Doppler Up from Christchurch, the band recorded their new single in October 2008 with producer/engineer 'CaptainHook' from Dudley studios in Hamilton. Photos taken by Amanda Ratcliffe. mandajustine@hotmail.com

5star Fallout Album 5star fallout recording their debut album at York Street with Producer Clint Murphy in July 2007. Each day had a theme picked out of a hat.. we have in order : Metal madness Monday, Rambo day, Sports day, Suit day, Movie day and finally Mono-brow day. All up the album was great fun to record and sounds fantastic!

The Bleeders The recording of The Bleeders' second single "So Lonely" at York Street in June 2004

The Coleman Sessions Recorded live at York Street and broadcast on Auckland's 93.8 Channel Z. Many of New Zealand's finest bands recorded a 15 to 30 minute set with a live interview with James Coleman. The sessions are live, with no overdubs! These sessions are fun and sound great.. Look out for the album :o)

Studio Shots For the gear and studio junkies out there! A few cool shots taken by music photographer Jason Hailes.

York Street Studio NEVE Console The heart of our control room is our vintage 1974 EMI Neve. There were 7 of these fantastic sounding consoles made by the legends at Neve specifically for EMI studios around the world, one of which was in Wellington New Zealand. We were able to track down all of our console's relatives. One is at U2’s studio in Dublin, one is at ICP studios in Brussels, Belgium, two have been put together as one large console and is in Steakhouse studios in Hollywood CA, two are currently being put together at the Great Linford Manor in England and number 7 is here with us at York Street in New Zealand.

Tadpole Tadpole, during the recording of the first few tracks of their next album. These Photos were taken during the 4/6/04 session by Auckland based photographer Jason Hailes.

York Street / Vocal Isolation Booth Our LED lighting system lets the musician pick a colour to suit the mood.

Fur Patrol Remix of Fur Patrols single "Andrew" at York Street with engineer Chris Van der Geer and producer David Nicholas

York Street Renovations Our studio building was built in 1907, It was built to assemble combine harvesters and was owned by the International tractor company. As part of our refurbishment, engineers advised us to remove a huge gantry crane from our largest space. It took a day and we got to watch some life size Tonka toys in action. Serious boy fun!