Belle: Hi Robin, thank you for taking part in this quick interview this afternoon

Robin: No worries, it always means a lot that you think of me!

Belle: Well you are a regular user of the studios! So what is your opinion on them? Why do you use Pirate over other communal studios?

Robin: - so I initially started using pirate before I got to uni because they were creating some events in London so that is how I first heard about them. I went there to watch other artists perform, it was a really intimate setting, I got to watch these grime artists perform. This made me want to go back and use the studios because obviously the equipment in there is like top-level, better than other communal studios I have found normally. A lot of the time if you want to go to a communal studio the equipment won't be good, it will be all messed up, and it won't be clean. But I feel pirate really had that top quality level to it and it was always clean and tidy and very professional.

Belle: Why do you think other Rappers use the studios? Do you think it makes it easier for them to access expensive equipment they may not have access to at home?

Robin: - The recording equipment and software is all there, so obviously if you haven't got the extreme amounts of money to pay for the recording software or equipment its great to go down for like £10/20 an hour. You could make a song in pirate studios that would sound the same as if you recorded in a multimillionaire studio its all the same.

Belle: So tell me a bit about the studios, I have never been in them myself and I would like to know how it all works. We tried to get in but they were all fully booked!

Robin: Yeah they always are, its kind of hard now so we used to have a group chat and just message most weeknights and say you know lets go to pirate tonight but since the studios have grown so much in popularity its really hard to book. You have to book like weeks in advance now which sucks. Me and my mates normally do jump on cancelations if we want to go, its the quickest way to do it. So what do you mean? explain how it works?