november 2011. we only went here once, a moment when we were trying to find ourselves again after some years as sidemen. i kept an obsessive diary in 2011, which says - "horrible, horrible drive out to stroud for skinflowers rehearsal. huge amounts of traffic, car insistent on overheating unless moving, windscreen wipers not working properly in the rain". nice room though. i knocked over that beautiful marshall jmp combo in the middle of the pic loading out, killing it completely, prompting a trip to steve kendall, who not only revived it but made it sound a million times better than before. expensive accident though.