Sound Space Studios is a recording studio and rehearsal facility located in Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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The original Sound Space Studios existed in Cardiff in the early 1990s The Manic Street Preachers and Stuart Cable

Stuart Cable

Stuart Cable was a Welsh rock drummer and broadcaster, best known as the original drummer for the band Stereophonics.- Early life :...

 are among those to have used it, the former recording their third album The Holy Bible there in 1994.

The current Sound Space Studios is co-owned and managed by Fudge Wilson (formerly of the The Martini Henry Rifles

The Martini Henry Rifles

The Martini Henry Rifles were a British noise-punk band based on Cardiff, Wales.-Influences & genre classification:Most of their quoted influences are noise and punk , hence the most common noise-punk genre classification...

 and Space in the 50s)

Location

The original studio was located on Crichton Street close to Cardiff city centre

Cardiff city centre

Cardiff city centre is the central business district of Cardiff, Wales. The area is tightly bounded by the River Taff to the west, the Civic centre to the north and railway lines and two railway stations - Central and Queen Street - to the south and east respectively...

, just south of the main railway line . It was demolished in 1998 to make way for the Callaghan Square development, an extension of the city's central business district

Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In North America this part of a city is commonly referred to as "downtown" or "city center"...

that now dominates the area.