Gavin Rossdale’s home studio is his happy place.
“I love this room,” the English rock star and feng shui enthusiast says over a video call from his Los Angeles abode.
Wearing a Harley-Davidson tee with his hair tucked casually but deliberately behind his ears, Rossdale is seated in the corner of a white room with red acoustic panelling. There’s a keyboard and a guitar nearby. His workstation is, importantly, facing the door.
“I once had a studio in my old life, where my back was at the top of the stairs. It was really annoying because you’d be playing and waiting for someone to scare you the whole time,” he laughs.
The 59-year-old frontman of British rock band Bush has always been particular about his surroundings.
“When I was writing for Sixteen Stone, I lived in an apartment with, like, five people; there was graffiti everywhere, no carpet on the floor, but I still needed it to be tidy,” he says of the band’s …