Chapter two

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Lestrade walked into the studios with Sherlock and John at his heels.
"Hello, welcome to Midnight Records" the woman at the desk said. "How may I help you today?"
"I am DCI Lestrade, and this is Sherlock and John, we would like to speak to the manager please about the break in and theft of the recordings a few nights ago"
"I shall just see if he is free" the receptionist said picking up the phone
"He is in a meeting at the moment" she informed them "but if you want I can show you to Death Is Our Destinys recording studio."
"Wait, they have their own studio." John asked
"Of course, so that they can record whenever they wish too" the receptionist replied smoothly. "We have 27 recording studios for each of our artists."
"May we go and see it?" Lestrade asked
"Of course" the receptionist said grabbing a set of keys from the desk.
They went to a recording studio which said Death is our destiny on a vinyl record that was nailed to the door.
She unlocked the door and they went into a small lounge with a wall to floor mural of the three members with their instruments, a coffee machine, and a water dispenser, two large leather sofas and then through a large glass window in ine of the walls you could see into the recording software with a little room for the control software to master the recorded music.
The inspector had a look round the room, noticing the Albums in their frames on the walls, and the framed posters and magazine articles.
Sherlock had walked into the studio and was looking at all the equipment and their positions, before looking at the control software in the room.
"The software room is protected with a combination lock at the door." sherlock said, "so unless the band told people the combination, the person either had a lucky guess, or knew the combination, indicating that he works inside the building."
"The most probable being that someone worked inside the building" John responded, "considering what they are working on is pretty highly secret stuff, with the album only being released on a certain day, and no one aside from those involved is allowed to hear it before the big day, I highly doubt that they are going to tell anyone their combination"
"Maybe someone has placed cameras to see the combination" Lestrade said and they all startedthem looking around the room for any bugging devices or hidden cameras. Upon finding nothing they returned back to reception and waited for th manager to show up.
"According to their website, the band consists of Jonnie Allman, Katie Halliwell and Aidan Bentliff, all from the same school in Manchester which is where the band was first formed. They recorded their first album and got good reviews and lots of people liked the fact it was instrumental, they made midnight records themselves and other bands joined the label. They raise money for charity on reverbnation with the sales of their albums in MP3 format and merchandise." Sherlock said using his phone to read the website.
"I've got their album Firestorm at home" Lestrade said "I think it's fantastic"
"Do they write their own material?" sherlock asked.
"No, they have songwriters from Italy and the Netherlands who wrote all of the Firestorm album, but they do have other songs that they wrote themselves." Lestrade said. "I think that they wrote the vast majority of their second album themselves"
"Nightmare Land I take it" sherlock said to which the inspector nodded.
"So, why would any one take these songs?" Sherlock said "it makes no sense"
"Maybe someone had a grudge against them being so famous, maybe a collegue or an old school friend, maybe an ex member of the band. I suppose they may want to show the band up by taking the music so that they were unable to release it-"
"Or pass it off as their own" Sherlock said. "If it's instrumental, they only have to add lyrics in order to use it"
"So what do we do?" John asked
"Call the band here" he said as the manager walked into the Lobby
Once sherlock explained the plan to the boss. He immediately sprang into action, calling all of the other bands who were involved in the project.

"What?" Katie asked in shock as she absorbed the news. "A concert." She said, "tomorrow"
"exactly" sherlock said
"Tickets are two pounds" the manager added, "it's going to be held in Hyde park, so that loads of people can come and see"
"I still don't understand why?" Aidan said
"Because the person who stole your music we think has stolen it, to release as their own."
"Why would they do that?"
"We'll is there any one who was jealous of your fame when you were starting to make it big?" Sherlock asked.
"Morgan!" Jonnie said, "we saw her the other day, she was in the same resteraunt as us!"
"Could she have heard anything?" Lestrade asked taking notes
"Yes, we're were talking about the new songs and which ones we were recording next!" Katie replied glumly
"Did you mention the combination at any point?"
"No, oh wait I wrote it down on a piece of paper and come to think of it, that's when she walked by!" Katie cried
"So how will the concert tomorrow help us?"
"Well. It gives you a chance to get your songs out their first so that she cannot then claim that they are hers." Sherlock said
"She did always want to be a professional singer, but her voice wasn't very good!" Jonnie said and Aidan nodded in agreement.
"We'll come in guys, we have posters to make about the concert tomorrow, and television crews to ring!" Katie said springing into action.