This FFS scribe is still trying to get back on a vaguely regular sleep patten following an all-nighter outside Piccadilly Records but already some of the figures are in for Record Store Day 2012 and it proved to be comfortably the biggest yet. Vinyl sales were reported up 50% on last year’s event, with...
With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by it all, so – without wishing to give away our entire shopping lists –...
More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly sourced, decent quality Fairtrade coffee over the dirt cheap instant guff. ‘Responsibly fished’ tuna...
Bexhill-on-Sea: home of the iconic art deco De La Warr Pavilion, a magnificent century-old seafront colonnade, quaint beach huts, and a huge retirement community. Not the most obvious place to open up a new record store. But that is exactly what locals Del Querns and Richard Wortley did last year as they opened their...
Rupert Morrison runs the Drift Record Shop in Totnes – a Devon town in between Plymouth and Exeter. We caught up with him about returning to his hometown after living in London, his plans for Record Store Day and how he’s living the dream. FFS: You used to live in London, did you work...
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity or a little dyed in the wool historical heft, search no more. Spillers, which...
The Smoke Fairies have revealed further details of their second album Blood Speaks, which will be released on May 21. The album, which is the follow-up to the outstanding Through Low Light And Trees, will be preceded by a special Record Store Day EP on 9″ vinyl featuring four songs from the album sessions,...
News continues to come thick and fast as Record Store Day approaches on April 21st. There’s word that the Flaming Lips have used, er, actual blood from Ke$ha and others in the packaging for their release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, as well as the first listen to Richard Hawley’s single, ‘Leave Your...
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