At last weekend's Glastonbury Festival Bowes Park's Cowshed Studios relocated from their Myddleton Road home to a custom built low-impact straw bale recording studio in the Greenpeace field.

The building had a timber frame, a core of straw bales and - appropriately for Glastonbury - was finished with mud walls.  However this rudimentary structure housed a fully functioning  hi-tech recording studio operation and live video streaming set-up.

The partnership between Greenpeace and Cowshed aims to raise the profile of music as a tool for protest. The Raising Voices  project celebrates music with a radical a point of view

"Just about all of us, one way or another, are fed up with the status quo,” says Cowshed studio owner Joe Leach, “and one of our most effective communication tools – music – has been failing to reflect this adequately. We’re calling on all left-field artists, musicians, writers; everyone who opposes exploitation, destruction, corruption, manipulation and fraud - stuff that has become staple fodder of the increasingly half-baked media reporting we routinely ignore. Raising Voices aims to use the uniquely positive environment that is Glastonbury to build momentum around the protest song.”

Press "Play" button above to hear Joe Leach talk about the project

Or watch a video showing the construction and use of the temporary recording studio:

Find out more about the Greenpeace partnership and about our local recording studio:

Cowshed Studio Website

Cowshed Glastonbury Microsite

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