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.

OKAY//ABSENCE\\EMERGE

I haven't been here for a while, I always seem to be too busy or too lazy, which isn't good.
I'm sorry.


I've got a fisheye film that I want to upload some of but my computer is rejecting my scanner, so I need to go to plan B or C.
Those being...
B. Buy/find/borrow/hijack a scanner
C. Pay Boots to do it.


I bought a fantastic record today. (...12'', if you wondered.)
Radiohead
A. Little By Little (Caribou rmx)
B. Lotus Flower (Jacques Green rmx) 


I'm especially loving the Caribou rmx, but Lotus Flower is sounding good also, and as I understand it, there are 3 more Radiohead singles/rmxs coming out in the coming months or so.

You can listen to the Caribou rmx just around here.

Radiohead - Little By Little (Caribou rmx)

I am excited for them.
I also have bought the new Bon Iver album, which I've only managed to listen to a snippet of so I can't wait to hear the whole album as it is probably a very beautiful album.


I never understand why these blogs double space all the time. 
IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Have a glance.                                                           Pentagon.

Time has arrived for my sleep time so therefore I shall leave here and return when I have some fisheye photos and it'll be delightful.

Peace out. bleep.

SWEET

Well, Easter has come, and gone, so now on to May. Lets hope that there will be lots more sun and beautiful weather throughout May. Although I bet it won't be, just to be depressive.


I have tried to get on with my vinyl challenge but it is not that easy to find time, just to listen to records. I shall plod, like a parade of elephants crossing a desert, persistence.


I have upon my desk, a Lindt Gold Bunny that my most delightful, and wonderful girlfriend gave me, I am very much looking forward to munching it down in a couple of gobbles! 


We went for a walk in the countryside yesterday, (if yesterday was Monday), and I took some photographs, here are a few of them, plus also some others from the weekend.

The first three photographs I took yesterday, and the other two on Saturday, and Sunday.

The one of the wall is in Bath on Kingsmead North, and the flower is from our garden.

Time for football, so peace out people of the universe. x

VINYL TASK

So, it has been a couple days since I was on here, and I've had an idea.


I am currently in the process of listing all my records, and then I aim to re-listen to them all, from A to Z (probably alphabetically, anyway.), and then tick them off when I've listened.


It will be a mammoth task, I have no doubts, but I feel like I ought to listen to more music, especially all the records I've bought. 


I will launch a new pages with all my records listen as soon as I've listed them, which could take a while, but hopefully in the next week, or so. 


I, so far, have listen all my 12'' records up to P, but have yet to do 7'' singles, and 10'' items. It could be a bit of time before it is all done. I am really looking forward to this, as I hope it'll be fun and I'll enjoy listening to some of my favourite artists and bands.


I'm not going to write any more now, which means I can crack on listing my records.


but I'll leave you with a song...

Radiohead - The Butcher

I really enjoyed the Radiohead release from Record Store Day, and I hope you do, also check out 'Supercollider'

over and out. 

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.

WRITE LEFT

How strange.

I find myself wanting to tell the world my thinkings, do they need to be told?

It is a Thursday evening in early April 2011, this year is flying past.

Radiohead on the record deck, The King of Limbs, my first proper listen, digging the last four tracks, now on to The Chemical Brothers.

TLF

So April 16th 2011 is RECORD STORE DAY and there are some very limited RELEASES, it could potentially be and expensive day.

That was me, writing rubbish. Literally.

I need to FOCUS

                  OCUS

                     CUS

                        US

                           S

NOTHING. It, the brain, has done a runner.