Record Store Day 2024
Record Store Day 2024 is complete!Yesterday I queued up in the very early hours and finally got my purchases for this year. I really enjoyed queueing despite the nearly freezing temperatures and I’m already excited to do it all again next time! For anyone who doesn’t quite understand why Record Store Day is a big…
RSD Interview -Spinning Around Records
You’re walking into a record shop, on the left Harry Styles greets you and on your right is Beyonce. You carry on walking and notice Katy Perry and Ariana in the corner beaming at you, Kylie is standing to your left and Taylor to your right. Are you dreaming? It certainly feels like it but…
RSD – Live Performances
With the first weekend of Coachella rounding up on Sunday and Record Store Day nearly here I thought i’d sift through Youtube to find my favourite live performances from some of the artists who are releasing vinyls on Saturday. Starting off with Olivia Dean, whose video is tying the two events together as Coachella have…
RSD Interview – Applestump Records
As we are now only five days away from Record Store Day (on Saturday 20th April) I present to you my next Record Store Interview, with Steve from Applestump Records based in Nantwich. Applestump have an awesome selection of new and second-hand vinyls along with starting up their Youtube channel and presenting new and exciting…
RSD Interview – Up North Records
I had the pleasure of continuing my Record Store Day interviews last week by visiting Up North Records, situated in Chester city centre. It’s a great shop for music lovers, lots of vinyls to choose from with new releases located at the very front of the shop. They have lots of great gifts for music…
RSD Interview- Tasty Records
I am very excited to introduce my Record Store Day interviews! I’ve been interviewing some of the independent record stores around the North West area in anticipation for RSD next week, to hear record-seller’s stories, what they think will be the top-sellers, any advice for music fans and more! We start our interview series in…
My RSD 2024 Picks
We are very quickly approaching RSD and I thought i’d share with you the vinyl’s i’m hoping to buy! There are so many so it won’t be possibly to buy them all but here are the one’s i’ll be keeping an eye out for on the day: – The 1975 “The 1975 Live at Gorilla”-…
Record Store Day 2024
Record Store Day is nearly here and I wanted to share my thoughts of why I find it such an exciting day in the world of music. Record Store Day is the one day of the year where over 260 independent record shops all across the UK (and in America) will have hundreds of exclusive…
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