K Klass: House Music's Last Post Apocalypse Survivors-

K Klass's decision to buy and convert a former nuclear fallout shelter into a studio in 1997, is beginning to look incredibly far-sighted, following warnings this week that 3.5 million Brits could die in a terrorist aerial attack on Britain's biggest nuclear storage facility at Sellafield.

The legendary house heads bought the Borras Bunker in Wrexham, North Wales back in 1997, which was previously the location of the Royal Observer Corps' No.17 Group Headquarters.

Speaking to Australian magazine 3D World some time before the Al- Qaeda threat emerged, core band member Paul Roberts spoke enthusiastically about the building's facilities.

"The walls are a metre and a half of reinforced concrete, it's got two steel blast-proof doors and sits on a quarter of an acre of its own land surrounded by a 12 foot (4 metre) steel perimeter fence around it," he revealed.

"The idea for the building was that in the event of a nuclear bomb dropping, military people and local people like councillors would retreat to this shelter along with a party of reconnaissance people. The idea was that after the bomb had dropped, these people would stay alive in here for 6 months, then send out reconnaissance teams to report back to HQ, via underground telephone lines, what the damage was. Then they'd die".

The band continue to record in the studio (appropriately called The Bunker) and have just contributed a new track Talk 2 Me to Music Week's latest cover-mount CD "New Welsh Talent". They've also recently signed up with online radio/ clubbing portal TrustTheDJ.com.
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