Record Store Day - April 20th 2013

So yesterday was the sixth annual Record Store Day, the 4th time I'd attended in as many years, and it was just a great, if not better, as all the previous!

I arrived bright and early, somewhere around 6am, to Raves From The Grave in Frome, to find that I was the first to arrive, which I was slightly surprised by, but nevertheless I was please to be first as to hopefully get my hands on some super limited records!

 Around 6.30am, the stragglers started to arrive, and by 7am there were around half a dozen people or so, with a number of people who I'd not seen since last years event. 

 Fast forward a couple hours of discussing music with many people in the queue, plus free coffee and bacon rolls supplied by the cafe next door and a queue about 35-40 people strong, 9am arrived and the doors opened for the grabbing of rare and precious records which as per previous years, slight chaos ensued! 

 30 minutes later I came out of crowd and felt somewhat victorious, I had managed to get all that I had on my list, plus a couple of other items that I fell upon by chance and felt were worthy purchases!

 After this I popped to a cafe just up the road with a fellow Record Store Day-er for some much needed coffee and a good old chat, after which we headed back to Raves From The Grave and picked up a couple more bits as the storm had calmed and browsing became more possible.

I'm now listening to all these one by one, and I've thoroughly enjoyed all I've heard so far, below are all that I bought.

CONNAN MOCKASIN

LIVE AT LA CIGALE, PARIS 25TH MARCH 2012

12'' - Black Vinyl

A 1.Unicorn In Uniform/2.It's Choade My Dear/3.Quadropuss Island B 4.Forever Dolphin Love

CHAPEL CLUB

GOOD TOGETHER ALBUM SAMPLER

12'' - Picture Disc

A 1.Sleep Alone/2.Jenny Baby B 3.Scared/4.Good Together

THE XX

JAMIE XX EDITS

12'' - Black Vinyl

A 1. unset B 2.Reconsider 

TOY / THE HORRORS

(RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE)

12'' - Black Vinyl

A TOY - Motoring (Tom Furse Extraploration)
B The Horrors - Moving Further Away (Dom and Ale TOY remix)

DJANGO DJANGO

HI DJINX DJANGO DJANGO REMIXED

Double LP - Black Vinyl

A 1.Hail Bop (Django's Bail Hop Edit)/2.Default (Tom Furse Remix)/3.Firewater (Nick McCarthy Drunk Remix)
B 4.Waveforms (Micky Moonlight Remix)/5.Zumm Zumm (DJ Mujava Pitori Remix)/6.Hand Of Man (Gulp Version)
C 7.Love's Dart (Rude Pravo Version)/8.Wor (Adrian Sherwood's Hey Gringo Remix)/9.Storm (Andy Wake's Lunar Storm Version)
D 10.Life's A Beach (Steve Mason's Priests Of Sound Remix)/11.Skies Over Cairo (Bullion Version)/12.Silver Rays (Chris Carter Remix)

SIGUR ROS
HVARF/HEIM

Double LP - Blue & Green Vinyl

HVARF - A 1.Salka/2.Hljómalind/3.Í Gær B 4.Von/5.Hafsól
HEIM A 1.Samskeyt/2.Starálfur/3.Vaka B 4.Ágætis byrjun/5.Heysátan/6.Von

PEACE
CALIFORNIA DAZE
7'' - Picture Disc

A 1.California Daze

 METRONOMY
PIP PAINE (PAY THE £5000 YOU OWE)
Double LP - Black Vinyl

A 1.You Could Easily Have Me/2.Love Song For Dog/3.Danger Song/4.This Could Be Beautiful (It Is)
B 5.Black Eye/Burnt Thumb/6.Peter's Pan/7.Trick Or Treatz/8.The 3rd
C 9.1 String Strung/10.Bearcan/11.How Say
D 12.Are Mums Mates/13.In The D.O.D/14.Hear To Wear/15.Another Me To Mother You

FOALS
MY NUMBER
7'' - Black Vinyl

A 1.My Number
B 2.Bluebird

That is the last of the items I bought, so plenty of listening to do, and a whole bunch of lovely records for my collection, with hopefully many more in the future.

As much as I enjoyed this day, I just hope all the people who showed up just for Record Store Day return regularly and support their local, and independent record shop, however I have this sad feeling that many people will not.

Time for me to finish off here, I hope all involved with Record Store Day had a blast, and will take part again in the years to come.

Thanks to Raves From The Grave for participating and, of course, being wonderful all year long.

Peace out.

SQUEAKY VIDEOS

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I re-posted this by mistake, it is not new!

Well, this whole finding time to blog thing is harder than I thought it'd be, I mean, any time I do have is usually taken up with feeling tired, and lethargic. It takes a lot of effort. 


Here, below, are some more videos I took a year or two ago, some of them are rubbish, I know that, but I also know it is not about the quality it is about the content.... sometimes.

Wolf Parade

Friendly Fires

Late of the Pier

Hand

Mumford and Sons

Graham Coxon

Enter Shikari

Tractor

Music Van thing - Abysmal Racket

Fish

Driving with Foals

Metronomy

ALSO

Listen to Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air, loving the new stuff by them.

Over and out.

BRISTOL

Today, My girlfriend and I, we went to the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, which we thoroughly enjoyed!

My personal favourite was 'Sunset Moment' by Olivier Puccia 

See it here!

I've not had much time to get on here in the past few days, not that I'm complaining about being busy, I like doing things, but I'm just saying, this is a good space to release the stuff going around my brain, and confusing me.

Here are some photos from today. 

 I saw this outside the museum and really thought it looked a bit nice, it being a Vespa and all that.

This is me, enjoying my Frappé Latte with extra cream, in Caffè Nero.

This is me, again I hear you say, in Topshop whilst waiting for my daring girlfriend, I love her.

xj?

That was today.

Also, Osama Bin Laden is dead. Thumbs up, I suppose.

And I leave you with this...

Metronomy - Peter's Pan

I love that song.

Peace out. 

x.

DID YOU SEE THE FLASH?

Here, I am sat on this Tuesday afternoon.

10 minutes. Stop.


Wow. I am hungry, I feel like I could eat for ever. 

GOOD PIE.

Let's roll. Bonobo on the stereo, nothing like a vinyl LP, I just love how it feels, crackles, and most of all, has some character, it makes the music more enjoyable, that's what I think anyway. 
I love buying music on vinyl, unwrapping it as soon as you get through the door, or before! 


I can't quite get my mind around how much I love this South Central remix of Warrior's Dance by The Prodigy, it's flippin' mental! 
The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance (South Central remix)

That is all that need be said about that.

If you have always wanted to see Lady Gaga fall off a piano, look no further than here...

Lady Gaga falls of a piano

Today I bought Metronomy's new album 'The English Riviera' on Vinyl LP.

Can't wait to have a listen soon.

Peace out organisms.

METRONOMY

AHHHHH! 

The English Riviera, the new album by Metronomy.

Hear it HERE! (and buy it on Monday 11/04/11)

I think its more of a grower than perhaps Nights Out was, and it is certainly a bit more gentle and relaxing, saying that I absolutely love all their other releases!


Buy Metronomy music physically from Banquet Records in Kingston, or download it from iTunes, or 7Digital, or where ever.

METRONOMY - RADIO LADIO

While on the subject of music I'm really in love with, Wax Fang, a band from Kentucky, US. I saw them at Dot to Dot festival 2010 in Bristol, and in my opinion they were 1st equal best band of the day, them and Islet, from Cardiff, were both incredible. 

WAX FANG - MAJESTIC

 EQUAL

ISLET - WE SHALL VISIT

Time for Live at the Apollo on One now. Shine.