Location:
Bendigo St, Richmond, Victoria

Owner/s:
GTV-9 (PBL)

TCS (Television City Sound) Studios was set up by Colin Stephenson of GTV-9 Melbourne as a multitrack studio. It was originally established to handle the pre-recording of music tracks for the popular TV variety show In Melbourne Tonight but over the next few years it became a prominent rock recording studio, mainly because of the staff, which included legandary engineer-producers John Sayers and John French.

After Armstrong's Studios TCS was in the early 70s probably the most popular rock studio in Melbourne. Sayers and French began to book more rock sessions during the studio's "down time", beginning around 1970, and many famous recordings were cut there between 1970 and 1975.

THE LA DE DAS
Gonna See My Baby Tonight / Fare Thee Well
P: Howard Gable
released 11/71

COMPANY CAINE
A Product of A Broken Reality
Producer - Gus McNeil 
Engineer - John French
recorded July 1971

CHAIN
Toward The Blues
Producer: John Sayers
released Sept. 1971
 

1972

BLACKFEATHER
Boppin' The Blues
recorded live; remixed at TCS
released 9/72

CHAIN
Sunny Day / I Was Born
released 10/72

COUNTRY RADIO
Country Radio Live
P:
Recorded live in the studio, 4 October 1972

DUCK
Laid
Produced by G. Wayne Thomas

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Morning Of The Earth (soundtrack)
Producer: G. Wayne Thomas
Engineer: John French

1973

THE 69'ERS
Harry Rag/Blood Flash/Rag Mama
Producer: John French
released 4/73

INDELIBLE MURTCEPS
Warts Up Your Nose
[some tracks also recorded at Armstrong's]

MADDER LAKE
Stillpoint
Produced by John French
Released 4/73

 

1974

THE DINGOES
The Dingoes
P: The Dingoes/John French
Recorded January 1974
 

SKYHOOKS
Living In The Seventies
Producer: Ross Wilson
Rec. June 1974

Other artists known to have recorded at TCS:

Max Merritt

Leo de Castro & Friends

Russell Morris

McKenzie Theory

Wendy Saddington

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