Alistair Austin Rothwell Groves is a British

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, currently based in

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, England. He is renowned for his focus on guitar based popular music. He works at The

Motor Museum The Motor Museum (previously called the Pink Museum) is a music recording studio based in the Lark Lane area of Liverpool, England, and owned by Andy McCluskey. A number of popular music artists have recorded at the premises, including The 19 ...

recording studio in

and is a guest lecturer in music production at

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population of (in ), Liverpool is the administrative, cul ...

Career

Groves took his first steps into music production whilst a student at Liverpool John Moore's University in around 2005. After success in setting up a small, basic recording studio in his student house, an opportunity came about to create and manage Sandhills Studio, an independent recording studio in the Vauxhall district of Liverpool. Through Sandhills, Groves built a reputation as a reliable and exciting engineer, whilst developing his ear and own ideas in production. He worked with a growing clientele at Sandhills, from small, independent bands to world famous musicians, including

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and

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. After several successful years during a time of general upheaval in the industry, Groves left Sandhills in 2012 to become manager and resident producer of the

. In early 2015, Groves traveled to Santorini, Greece to engineer Bring Me the Horizon's fifth studio album ''

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'', having worked with the band on the first single for the album ("

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") at the Motor Museum the previous year. Groves recently recorded the debut single "Lost and Found" for the

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based band, The Slumdogs.

References

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