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Making Music in St Helens, Merseyside*

St Helens, Merseyside Guitars and Instruments, Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

Musical Instrument Shops and DJ Gear

• Peter Darwins. He has been running his business in town for as long as I was born. Will knock a few bob off if you're nice and posisbly haggle
• DAWSONS,DOES THAT STILL EXHIST?SPECIALITY IN ORGANS, OF THE KEYBOARD TYPE.
• Dawson, the place where you can not get an audio lead for anything. The place where only guitars will do, along with Darwins and the Axe Factor.
• Peter Darwin is a dude
• that place in goerge street that place is the biz
• Geaorge st, they have me old pink bass or some lucky devil does
• DARWINS, EXPENSIVE INSTRUMENTS SOLD BY REALLIFE CIRCUS SIDESHOW FREAKS
• To the best music shop in the world - Darwins, Run byt the best guy in the world. We love you groovy man!
• Oh whats it called... near the town hall cant remember its name.
• Theres dicksons i think its called, i'm not sure but you'll know it's a music shop when you see it! it's on george street near the train station next to the furniture shop!
• use b Darwins on George st , dont know if still there now though . cath the owner use come on solan sunbeds.
• Greg's guitar shop on Ormskirk Street opposite Crystals is the best place in town for any guitar gear. Dawsons gets a bad name but you can drop on a bargain in there occassionally.
• Darwins should have a golden walkway to it with angels playing outside. i once askd him if he "had any £2 s***ty leads" n he said to himself "hmm...£2 s***ty leads?..yep, here you go" n lifted the lead i wanted out of a random drawer! thats what i call service. Boycott dawsons i say, as it is a ripoff beyond belief.
• Fantastic new guitar shop - "The Axe Factor"
• dawsons have like everything. but there's the axe factor and that just has guitars.
• Dawsons, Pete Darwins
• Dawsons is sound. That's where I bought my Harmonica (does that make me sound uncool? Read bass guitar instead)
• break into a music school and steal a piano - that's standard procedure round st helens
• Maggies Nest, North Road. Sadly.
• Peter Darwins near the train station.
• Magpies Nest, North Road.
• Fair play there's a good music shop in town. But shame that the music scene is piss poor.
• DAWSONS MUSIC SHOP
• Look no further than maggies nest on north road
• dawsons,darwins
• dawsons is it an they're pretty decent
• day and nite, st helens
• Pete Darwin IS god....we worship the ground he walks on cos he cheaper than dawsons an always says "man"....."i can get it in for tuesday"...petes favourite words.....Go to pete he wont rip you off.
• darwins. dawsons is too expensive.
• Dawsons are alright, but if you want more than a few picks or a strap, head into manchester for Academy of Sound and Johhny Roadhouse's.
• Darwins, 'cos it's me mate Johns dads shop, and Joh was the maddest skater ever for rock'n'rollin the top of the multi-story behind the tontine market when he was about 13.
• that dodgy one near the bus station
• Dawsons Discount(tres bon) and darwins.
• There can be only one........Pete Darwin
• PETER DARWIN DOES A GOOD OFFER IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
• Darwins - would let you play on the keyboards for a good ten minutes before getting pissed off and chuckin you out the shop.
• gotts be dawsons - got my guitar there when i was seven and my mate got a recorder.
• The tamberines in woolworths are well good.
• novello house,,dawsons,vose,s music shop near the station..thats still goin i see.
• Dawsons is ok,
• DONT GO TO DAWSONS!!! IT IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF PLACE IN THE WHOLE OF THE COUNTRY.IF U TRAIL ON DOWN TO PETE DARWINS ON GEORGE ST, U MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND A PAIR OF DRUMSTICKS THAT COST LESS THAN EIGHT QUID!
• FARMER DARWINS
• Go into Manchester mate.
• Music 90 and Howarths are quite good
• dawsons, the two guys who work there are funny as fuck!!
• Anyone one remember that shitehawk who ran that scabby little music shop on Duke Street, think its a curry house now and not before time.
• CASEYS
• cas converter
• pound land
• Music 39 on Duke Street was a strange shop. They never seemed to have much.
• Dawsons if your Old and have a lot of money to spend on an organ, but Pete Darwins for ANYTHING ELSE. If your into Folky stuff, check out Cogglers in Thatto Heath.
• Got to be Darwins in George St., Brilliant!
• Dawsons music is the place to go to string your guitar! Don't take my word for it, go and try it and if you dont own a guitar borrow a friends , they will be so grateful!.
• Dawson - I think it is still there
• Pete Darwins - George Street Dawsons - Barrow Street I remember looking in this shop window on my way to Cowley school, drooling at the cool guitars in the window

Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

• There's always that small room near the theatre royal. So well known that it only has a small room in a terrace house opposite the bus station.
• Coming soon to St Helens a new venue that will host Music Tuition in Piano, Keyboard, Guitar, Drums, Woodwind and Vocals. The venue will also feature inhouse recording facilities and video producing suite and also rehersal studios and a bar on site. For more info email info@professionalmusictuition.co.uk.
• New Definition Arts & Media Ltd Hardshaw st, has FAB Edit suit for Video or computer music editing, cheep too
• De La Salle Arts Centre is a new building for performing arts. A venue for performing arts lessons during school time, it is a versatile, creative environment that can facilitate community functions and events out of school hours. It includes a Drama Studio, Music studio, Mirrored Dance Studio with sprung floor and three good size classrooms. Also to hire is a theatre with 400+ audience capacity and soon an ICT suite and Recording Studio. Ideal for rehearsal and performance. Contact Julia on 01744 736412 for more details.
• carmel college lol
• there's the citadel thats like performing arts or the theatre royal you could put a performance on there!!
• New rehearsal rooms just opened up by the Theatre Royal - not sure about how good it is or the cost but it comes recommended anyway!
• there was 1 in the back-and-beyond near the sorting office, behind nevada bobs golf shop, jus on ur left hand side after the lights on prescot road. we used 2 use that4 a while but recently there's been no-one answering the phone when we've tried to organise a practise.
• H-Prod Studio in Haydock
• LIVERPOOL AND KIRKBY
• I think theres a recording studio at back of the town hall
• day and nite, greenfield rd

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