Record Store Day 2010...

Record Store Day 2010
The Importance

An obtuse mind is seemingly the mindset of a media brainwashed society nowadays, case in point a 16 year old little nit who through plenty of marketing $$$ and quite frankly a ridiculous attention span of a generation has become a star in a month, but today pessimism isn’t the chosen word (although necessary in that case) as its Record Store Day, an ode to local record stores throughout the UK that tirelessly keep independence alive from giant corporate conglomerates.

For this day celebrates all that record stores stood for and still do in a much smaller domain. The power of technology has effectively destroyed the premise of record store day, the closure of many adding to the emphasis of customers who rely nowadays on an easier route (usually Amazon, not going to lie I do it myself).

Bands such as Geoff Barrow’s Beak will take to various stores in and around the UK to play instore gigs to celebrate the notion that going out and supporting independence is still burning bright and with other more mainstream influential artists such as Blur, The Rolling Stones, Flaming Lips and Babyshambles releasing new and rare (in the case of the Stones) material.

Lets hope that this day not forces a new generation of demographics to scrap technology in favour of popping down to your local record store (we all know there is approximately…No chance of that EVER happening), but the commemoration of such influential stores in and around the UK in which we should all stand up and thank by trading in a CD, buying a vinyl or just having a moment to yourself with some headphones and your favourite album.

List of instore appearances: -

Bristol, Rise Records:
Jim Moray (2pm)
Hi Ficiton Science (3pm)
Wilder (4pm)
Zun Zun Egui (5pm)
Thought Forms (6:30pm)
Beak> (7:30pm)
The Blessing (8:30pm)


Cardiff, Spillers Records:
The Automatic
Christopher Rees
Cosmo
Bullet For My Valentine (DJ set)
Bethan Elfyn (DJ set)
DJ Rascal (DJ set)
Gary ‘Twisted By Design’ (DJ set)
Ben and Sam (DJ set)

Cheltenham, Badlands Records:
Calmer Records acts (10am - 4pm)

Edinburgh, Avalanche Records:
The Sundancer (noon)
TV21 (3pm)
Desertersdeservedeath (featuring members of Saint Jude’s Infirmary) (5:30pm)

Farnham, 101 Collectors Records :
Wax Jams
Jonathan Thompson

Glasgow, Avalanche Records:
YAK (plus more acts to be confirmed)

Kent, Sound House:
Pete Molinari
Tallulah Rendall
Jason Steel & Nancy Wallace

Leeds, Crash Records:
The Paddingtons (2pm)
Jon Jones & The Beatniks Movement (4pm)
Pulled Apart By Horses (6:30pm)
The Sunshine Underground (8pm)

Leeds, Jumbo Records:
Jonjo Feather (9:20am)
Wilful Missing (11:30am)
Serious Sam Barrett (2:30pm)

London, The Dream Machine (at The Half Moon Pub):
The Lorenz Attractor
Eat Lights; Become Lights
Her Name Is Calla
Library Tapes
Woodchucker
Epic45
Spotlight Kid
Codes In The Clouds

London, Pure Groove:
Family Saturn (10am)
David Tattersall (noon)
Babeshadow (1:30pm)
Silver Columns (3pm)
Bombay Bicycle Club (6pm)



London, Rough Trade East:
Pulled Apart By Horses (11am)
Caribou (noon)
Laurie Anderson (2pm)
Sweet Billy Pilgrim (3pm)
Ash (4pm)
Michael Rother of Neu! (signing) (5pm)
Pin Me Down (6pm)

London, Rough Trade West:
Alan Pownall (12:30pm)
Eliza Doolittle (1:15pm)
Jesca Hoop (2pm)
The Magic Numbers (3pm)
I Am Arrows (4pm)
Erland And The Carnival (4:45pm)

London, Banquet Records (gigs take place at The Fighting Cocks):
Cancer Bats (2pm and 4pm)

London, Kingston Hippodrome:
Tinie Tempah, Professor Green (10pm)

Newcastle, Reflex:
Chris Riley (1:30pm)
Emily Portman (2:30pm)