23 Oct 2026Campaign
The Givealittle campaign is live
Our Givealittle page is up and running. Every donation goes straight to the landslip repair fund. Give what you can, and share it far and wide.
Donate on Givealittle01The Story
The room the
music came from
The Sitting Room sits on the hillside above Lyttelton Harbour. For more than twenty years, across Christchurch studios and now its Lyttelton home, it has been a second home for some of Aotearoa's best songwriters, with producer Ben Edwards behind the desk.
Ben has never chased the spotlight. He has put his time into other people's records instead: hundreds of them, late nights and early mornings, helping an artist sound like themselves on tape.
A landslip in June 2025 disrupted The Sitting Room. Work towards reopening is ongoing. The repairs are serious, and the cost is more than one small studio can carry on its own.
So the community around Ben is building something back. We have started a Givealittle campaign, and we are asking everyone who cares about this room to chip in what they can.
20+
Years
100+
Records
3
Tui Awards
