From 1987 – 1990 Windmill used the Windmill Lane Two location for most things. Stephen’s Green, that studio was closed in 1990. Stephen’s Green, and set up Windmill Lane Two at that location off of St. In 1984 Windmill would purchase Keystone studios, located at St. The studio would later relocate to 20 Ringsend Road in 1990, which is where the studio is located at this time.
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This original building held a video production facility (Windmill Lane Pictures) an audio mastering facility (Trend Studios) and the recording studio itself. Windmill Lane Studios opened in 1978 by Brian Masterson at 4 Windmill Lane in Dublin, near the Dublin dockyards. The credits for the single “ Three” and de Whalley both mention that the session was both recorded and remixed at Windmill: Produced by U2 and Chas de Whalley. U2 by U2, claims that this recording session happened at Keystone Studios, and the mixing of the tracks was done at Windmill Lane. That single would be released just a month later, on September 26, 1979. This fourth studio session was arranged by CBS Records with producer Chas de Whalley, and was designed to record songs which could be used to populate an EP “ Three“ should CBS Records be interested after the hearing the results of the recording session.
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Fourth Session: August 4-5, 1979, Keystone Studios, Dublin Ireland We kick off part two with a look at the sessions which became “ Three“ and featured on Just for Kicks. Starting with the session in August 1979, the recordings in studio were being used to populate singles, many prior to their contract with Island Records. During those sessions U2 recorded a number of songs which remain unreleased.
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In our first piece we looked at three sessions held in Keystone Studios in April and November 1978, and in Eamonn Andrews Studio in February 1979. This is part two of our look at the demo recordings of U2 in 1978 – 1980.