The Stockport Music Story Walking Tour & Plaque Unveilings

Please join us for a very special Stockport Music Story Walking Tour that includes two commemorative record plaque unveilings for significant happenings in Stockport's music history. We will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of the release of Joy Division's seminal album 'Unknown Pleasures' with special guests Peter Hook of New Order and Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets. 'Unknown Pleasures' was recorded at Strawberry Studios in April 1979 and released in June 1979. This seminal album and many other groundbreaking recordings would not have been possible if Inter-City Studios on Great Underbank had not been created by founder Peter Tattersall with the help of his musician friends Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman.

The walking tour will meet in the shop foyer at Stockport Museum/Staircase House at midday for a look around the Strawberry Studios exhibition. The tour will then visit the site of the commemorative record plaque for Hologram Studios on Park Street.

The commemorative plaque for Inter-City Studios will be unveiled on the wall of the Nat West Bank on Great Underbank, where the Nield and Hardy music store used to stand. Dr Peter Wadsworth will say a few words about the importance of Inter-City Studios and its development into Strawberry Recording Studios. We will then hear from the founder of Inter-City and Strawberry Studios, Peter Tattersall and his recollections of starting the studio in 1967.