Location from Gorillaz by Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett
The crumbling Hertfordshire manor house that serves as Gorillaz's home, recording studio, and ongoing disaster — a place where creativity and chaos share walls.
Kong Studios is the physical anchor of the Gorillaz world — the place they return to, the place they leave, and the place that feels most like home even when it's actively unpleasant. Murdoc acquired it through means that have never been fully explained and may involve a fraudulent lottery ticket. He renovated it enough to make it functional and no further. Every room has a history. The ballroom where Russel's kit lives was the site of a famous (within Kong walls) incident involving a ghost, a mixing board, and seventeen bags of flour. 2D's room faces west, which he says is important for his headaches. Noodle's space is immaculate and slightly alarming. The recording studio has produced some of the most interesting music of the century under conditions that would make a health inspector retire early.
A large Victorian manor house gone comprehensively to seed. The exterior is weathered brick and dark windows, with satellite dishes and antennae jutting from the roof at wrong angles. Murdoc's Winnebago is permanently parked in the courtyard. Inside: a labyrinth of corridors lined with recording equipment, old posters, odd trophies, and the accumulated debris of a band that has been living and working here for years. The recording studio is in the basement. The floors creak. The plumbing is philosophical.
Also known as: Kong Studios, Kong, The Studio