EMI’s Scott Horscroft new owner of The Grove Studios

EMI Music Australia’s Scott Horscroft is the new owner of iconic The Grove Studios, an hour’s drive out of Sydney, in 25 acres of rural Somersby. The studio came on the market for the second time in 25 years.

Horscroft also worked at Sydney’s inner-city Big Jesus Burger studios and produced and mixed for Silverchair, The Temper Trap, The Presets, 360, Papa Vs Pretty, Birds of Tokyo and Sleepy Jackson.

Originally built by INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers and known as Mangrove Music Studios, it was where Silverchair created Neon Ballroom and Diorama and was the recording home to Delta Goodrem’s Innocent Eyes, Eskimo Joe’s Black Fingernails Red Wine and Something For Kate’s Echolalia as well as those by The Whitlams, Troy Cassar-Daly, Human Nature and, of course, INXS.

Under Horscroft, the studio has on hand celebrated engineers and producers, including Burke Reid, Matt Lovell, Andy Mac and long time house engineer Josh Telford. In time, he envisages setting up an audio engineering school on the property, as well as opening up the space to the public with mini-music festivals and other community events.

“We just want to get about making it bigger and better than ever,” he reveals. “The vision is to bring The Grove back up to being the number one place for people to come to make music, make art, write and record.”