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
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| 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
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| A 1.Sleep Alone/2.Jenny Baby B 3.Scared/4.Good Together |
THE XX
JAMIE XX EDITS
12'' - Black Vinyl
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| A 1. unset B 2.Reconsider |
TOY / THE HORRORS
(RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE)
12'' - Black Vinyl
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| 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
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| 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
HVARF/HEIM
Double LP - Blue & Green Vinyl
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| 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
CALIFORNIA DAZE
7'' - Picture Disc
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| A 1.California Daze |
METRONOMY
PIP PAINE (PAY THE £5000 YOU OWE)
Double LP - Black Vinyl
PIP PAINE (PAY THE £5000 YOU OWE)
Double LP - Black Vinyl
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| 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
MY NUMBER
7'' - Black Vinyl
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| 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.
