Hey everyone,
Hope ye are all doing ok..
Vinyl records and CDs in the musiczone.ie towers today include new albums by Iron Maiden, Paul Weller, Linkin Park, Emmylou Harris and Elliott Smith.
Right so moving swiftly along to releases for Friday the 26th of May…crikey aint the year flying…Sony have a new Damo album…yes besties with Moz, superhero by day and gritty gravelly troubadour by night with unique insight and musings via David Beckhamesque deliveries…Damien Dempsey is back with a new record…CD and LP…ok ok not everyone’s cuppa cha…..i know..but i do hold a soft spot…will be listening to the new record.
Sony also have the new JOHN MAYER one on Vinyl record as well as a nice compilation they put out a few years ago on CD called AMERICAN ANTHEMS…LP release for it now.
Universal for next Friday the 26th of May have the release of the deluxe formats of THE BEATLES – sgt peppers ….preorder prices still in place….120 for the super deluxe box….37 euro for the 2 LP version…if your interested give us a shout..
Someone in the shop today told me that a bunch of music journos went over to abbey road recently for a listening party of the reissue…Tom Dunne was one and he reckoned ( Tom that is ) that it sounds brilliant…excitement is building on the shop floor about it to be honest…sold 22 peppers LPs to some event crowd who are holding some sort of function/party for the 50th anniversary of the greatest album ever !?
Another customer asked are we having a sergeant peppers day next Friday….outfit and all…!
UNI also have a debut album by hotly tipped newcomers THE AMAZONS…indies only clear vinyl as well as some nice SUZANNE VEGA and JOAN ARMATRADING 5 CD sets and THE ROLLING STONES “ ole ole ole” on DVD and BLURAY from their 2016 latin america tour.
Lastly from Universal is an interesting enough one i think…called Zaire 74…its the best of music by African artists taken from a music festival in the three days prior to the Ali/Foreman fight..on 3LP or 2 CD….reissue of SOFT CELLs “ non stop erotic” also.
Warner for the 26th of May have the KRAFTWERK 3D the catalogue on loads of formats…loads of info at the bottom of the newsletter about these releases…vinyl box is 150 if you preorder…bluray box is 130 on preorder…the other formats are normal enough pricing….
Warner also has reissues of “ mirage” and “ tango in the night” by Fleetwood Mac…20 bucks each, some more BAD COMPANY reissues, CULTURE “ two sevens clash” on 3LP on 2CD and the new SAM AMIDON album “ the following mountain” on CD or LP.
Red Essential have the new MT. WOLF album for the 26th.
Cadiz have a new album by THE UNTHANKS where they do renditions of poems and songs by Molly Drake…she has a famous enough musical son.
More terrible news today in the music world….Chris Cornell….only 52…the greatest rock singer of his generation in my opinion…Billy Corgan be thereabouts also for me….adored by millions and yet terribly unhappy…Christ tis an awful fucking illness.
Tragically ironic for me this week as i had a good man in my head all week and couldn’t shake him and a topic i wanted to mention and then shit the Cornell thing hits…ah fuck.
A good lad was in on Monday morning and said to me “ did you hear about Brian…the guy i meet here chatting to you and i went on to sing a song with him on stage in Gallaghers a while later, he killed himself”….shit i took a right punch….i knew Brian only from the shop and he only knew me from the shop…very few people would know we even knew each other…expect each other…if Sean didn’t make the connection i might never have heard….Death is something we are conscious of in the shop..i know that sounds morbid as shit but bad things can happen to anyone and our only connections a lot of the time is on the shop floor…so when someone is missing for a good spell , Bobby and I would ask each other did you see so and so at all lately….i hadn’t seen Brian since around February time i reckon …well i will go back further actually….Brian used nearly call every Monday around 12 ish to the shop in Douglas Court…interesting fella…slightly different outlook on life….musician…teaching disadvantaged and troubled teenagers to play instruments..interesting but seriously challenging job…we used tell each other stuff…we kind of clicked…i was fond of him….he was buying a bit of vinyl again…he loved talking music and life in general…you would get a sense he was a deep thinker and a bit heavy minded at times…but he was good fun and i always had good conversations with him.
He was nearly religious or bi weekly religious for about two years…..he got me on the Sean O Rourke radio programme…a buddy of his was a reporter on the show and needed to fill a spot…Brian suggested Raymond and vinyl and i made my national daytime radio debut and i mentioned cassettes making a slight comeback in the piece and Sean O Rourke said “ has that guy lost his mind”…cheers Brianie.. ….he used play 2 hours of classical guitar in Douglas village here at the time for the Simon Community…he was trying to do it in Douglas court also and i managed to get him in….good skin he was.
When i moved over last August i didn’t see Brian for a few months…maybe at the start but not then until Christmas ….he wasn’t himself i thought….i kept asking him how he was because he wasn’t himself i thought…he told me then he lost his dad a few months earlier and it had affected him way worse than he thought it would and that the black dog had kind of sneaked back into his life a bit…but he was much better now than he had been he said…i thought the words but never spoke them…give me a shout kid if you ever want to talk to someone……if you want to talk give me a shout…i thought them but never said them…i have said it to others but not this time, all i said was “ it will pass kid” …he was back in in Jan for a flying visit..seemed in good form…and again in Feb where he was ok i thought…
My life is lessened by Brian not calling in to me and im not sure you would even call us friends..but we liked each other i think…. i enjoyed his company and our little chats about everything and anything..they are no more now…there was so much i liked about Brian and he had so much to offer….that’s why depression is such a fucking awful illness…so if you’re suffering, or you have a sense of someone suffering…have the courage to say the words…im there if you need me, i can help or try to help or simply i need help… because the alternative,well, is simply tragic…RIP Brian,RIP Chris.
In typical Cork style i should probably come out with a joke now
MUSIC ON VINYL have the AVATAR soundtrack by James Horner on limited and numbered blue vinyl and THE CORRS “ forgiven not forgotten”.
PIAS for the 26th of May have the new CHARLATANS album “ different days” loads of quality guests on this one…meant to be a really strong record…5 by 7 “ singles box, coloured LP and normal LP, CD and cassette…now Sean O Rourke..tiny resurgence was what i said i think…new BEN OTTEWELL ( GOMEZ) album and a new AVATARIUM album.
Great gig coming up in the Opera house this Saturday when ANGEL OLSEN comes to town…the new record is great and the tickets are reasonable so i good one in store no doubt.
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Sin e for this week folks
Thanks for listening,
Ray
Musiczone.ie