Old Chapel Music Studios: Leeds rehearsal studio used by the Kaiser Chiefs opens to the public for free tours

Old Chapel Music Studios in Holbeck has announced it will be hosting free tours around its premises every month until the end of February 2024. As well as playing a key part in the stories of some of the city’s best known bands including the Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Old Chapel Music supports young people, up-and-coming artists and community groups, giving them access to the same facilities as established bands.

Residents since 1997 when as teenagers they were known as Parva, the Kaiser Chiefs still rehearse at Old Chapel Music Studios and have their own room in the extension they helped to fund in 2013.

Kaiser Chiefs keyboard player Nick ‘Peanut’ Baines said: “Old Chapel is our musical home. Wherever we are within these walls it still feels like home. It’s accessible to all, it’s open to all, it’s about music for everyone. It’s a place to create, and a place to be welcomed and a place to be safe.”

Embrace speak equally highly about the role Old Chapel Studios played in their journey to success. The band’s drummer, Mike Heaton, said: "My memories of Old Chapel Studios are all really great, we had a lot of fun there. It's a great place, great community then, so many different bands, so many different genres of music in there, I don't remember any bad words said between the bands, everyone got on even though we were radically different people.

“It was a space where you could be creative, develop, it was always great value for money and just a fantastic place."

Old Chapel Music also works closely with Festival Republic, promoter of both