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The countdown to Record Store Day is on
Monday 8th April 2013 | Varala
What started out as a gathering for today’s vinyl-loving community is now an annual day of indie music celebration. This year’s festivities are set for 20th April, with White Stripes’ Jack White channelling the role of Record Store Day ambassador. Record shops across the country will be participating, and there’ll be loads of new releases, exclusives, performances, and of course; queues upon queues of vinyl seekers everywhere.
If you’re not sure how to plan your Record Store Day, we’ve got the London highlights for you here:
Audio Gold will feature a free turntable surgery in their London store, offering advice on how to resurrect some of those records players in need of minor repairs. There’ll be exclusives on sale and live bands performing all day as well.
If Music has limited edition releases in store and acoustic sets by: William Adamson (11.30-12.15), Tom Price-Stephens (12.30- 1.30) and Da Lata (from 3). Then hit the dance floor at Plastic People nightclub to celebrate 10 years of If Music with DJS: Jean-Claude, Patrick Forge, Marc Mac, Nick Salmon.
Notting Hill promises a line-up of DJs Sean P and Richard ‘Padded Cell’ Sen, competitions and 10% off all second hand records.
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Live DJ's :
10.30 - 11.45: Immy Moore. (soul, rare grooves, disco)
11.45 - 12.45; Danny G (soul, funk, bass)
12.45 - 14.45 : Back to Earth DJ's aka Radioctive Man + Dexorcist (funk, soul, reggae, ska, dub, breaks, rock ‘n’ roll, psyche, garage, rocksteady, chilled)
14.35 - 16.15: Jerome Hill (Freestyle/No-Skool set)
16.15 - 17.30: Joe Hart
17.30 - 19.00: DJ Terror Eyes (bass)
Rough Trade West have confirmed a line-up of: UK Decay (post-punk), Joe Gideon and The Shark and Firmer Bravo.
Vinyl Pimp will feature in-store exclusives, Vinyl/CD/goodies and live sets from:
13:00 - 13:40 Douglas Dare (Live Piano + Vocal)
14:00 - 16:00 Luke Vibert
16:00 - 17:00 Rival Consoles
18:00 - 19:00 Planet Mu DJs
19:00 - 20:00 iTAL tEK µ-Ziq
20:00 - 21:00 Terror Danjah
21:00 - 22:00 Equinox
22:00 - Close µ-Ziq
To give you the energy to plough through vinyl all day, there’ll be burgers by Hackey Pearl + BYOB.
The Candy Store- 26 Berwick Street, W1F 8RG
DJs in store throughout the day as well as 30% off all products in store. Get shopping!
So there’s your London guide to this year’s Record Store Day. And here’s a look at how things went down last year:
By Varala Maraj
@VaralaMaraj
