November 20th: Brand new MURDER CAPITAL album, new DELINES too, KNEECAP soundtrack, more LISA HANNIGAN reissues, and Christmas rants about the industry and AI.

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Hi Everyone

Thanks a million to those of ye who came to our instores over the weekend, thank ye thank ye thank ye….without yeh there wouldn’t be instores….thanks to Sarah Hickey and Caoilan on guitar and Mike on double bass, it was a really lovely performance….the double bass made its debut in the shop.

Jerry Fish is some front man, ahh a great character, he had folks clapping and singing throughout his performance … .top top lad  as well, doing it for all the right reasons…his performance was special, there was a lovely vibe in the room for both instores.

Quick thanks to Ger O C as well , who is great to us with his trusted camera and photos , sound man as always Ger.

 

Right releases in the siopa for this Friday the 22nd of November…



 



 

Jumping on Shanes job a little bit here…..Lisa Hannigan has now announced all three studio albums are getting a vinyl reissue….some of these are  ( passenger and see saw) out of print for a good few years….these are all gorgeous albums, and in fairness a very good price in today’s market….beautiful albums for any record collection….the beauty of this tune should give you a chill…here is “ home” from Passenger live 

Lisa Hannigan – Home



 

Then releases for the 29th of Nov which is also Black friday…

Hopefully we will have a good 5 weeks now, its still a crucial time for us.

Its been only so so of late, we were down 10% there in October, and November has not been great either  so far….our regulars of course, our lifeblood, but very few randomers as yet…site so so as well, you have to keep watching it folks!! ( pain in the ring)

Same 5 weeks as last year will be grand now, hopefully!!

I say the same thing every year ( nb nb not aimed at anyone ) but it would be nice to clear out  some of the stuff from our boxes over the next 5 weeks.

Anyways, not at the auld poor mouth shite, simple message is you have to keep minding it, that’s all.

Dont forget we sell decent enough hi fi, if nieces , nephews etc are chasing record players from Santa…point our way would be appreciated! 

( Our turntable and speaker stock)

Right main week for this week ( will be ordering these from the record companies in the next few days) is the 6th of Dec and we would hope to stock…



 




Something I must point ye in the direction of is the recent Robert Smith interview around the album launch time ( brilliant it is, the album, if i didn’t tell ye already) .

Its a long interview, nearly an hour and 45 minutes ….the whole interview is great but i want to pick out one segment about the state of our world and the state of the industry we ( a tiny record shop in a vast industry ) work in….he sums it up, i couldn’t agree more with him…every word, on the money ( ok, maybe the wrong choice of word)….go from 1.02 till 1.09 here ( the rest of it well worth a listen also)

The Cure – Robert Smith Interview – Songs of A Lost World

He is so bang on here…the days of “ the lost world” when an honest job was met with honest money for said job is going if not gone….very quick one, we had a problem with a window and it needed a job… we were under time pressure with it….got a guy, he needed to take out the glass, fix the lock thing on it and pop the glass back in to fix it…something like that anyway, no parts required ) …600 euro he said it would cost…i said how long will it take …about an hour…i said a brain surgeon wouldn’t charge me that… he didnt like that, he got angry, said to me “ do you want it fucking done or not” …i said not for 600 euro no, sorry…he walked to his van to leave , turned back and said seeing as im here im do it for 300 euro ( no parts i repeat) …i grudgingly said fine, you know yourself….he was gone 40 minutes later.

Honest pay for an honest job?? Or the market is dictating the price…dynamic window fixing was the name on his van….oh no it wasn’t!!

Going to hand ye over to Shane now as he takes ye down the road as usual…

Sound, Ray. 600 euro feckin hell.

Hi daoine uaisle! Hope ye’re good. Robert Smith spot on there alright Ray.

A big Irish release announcement first up today from me.
THE MURDER CAPITAL are back with a brand new record. It’s called ‘Blindness‘.
Music Zone (on either side of the counter) are big fans of these lads.
There’ll be CD, black vinyl and limited yellow vinyl of it. And it’s coming out next February.
Going to look for a new song now from them…
https://youtu.be/bJWT1WAepWk?si=CBsjzl_erQ77uGCU
Strong song. Cool guitar solo.
Be class if we could get them for an in-store!!

One I couldn’t mention last week because it wasn’t announced til the Thursday, the soundtrack to the KNEECAP movie is coming out on CD and coloured vinyl. Also the end of February for that.
The movie is good craic, but I was a bit annoyed how it was kinda normalizing class A drugs.
Those are dangerous for young folk.
Sound like Mr Mackey now haha.

And another band who are popular in the siopa, THE DELINES have a brand new album coming out too. Valentine’s Day release. Steely Dave has played with them I think.
It’ll be called ‘Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom’. Here’s a track from it: https://youtu.be/U_4Yf_b40lg?si=u1OgFzUoR5X3q5XU 
Limited coloured vinyl available of that.

Here’s the rest of what’s coming out soonish/next year:

The last one is certainly least this time. It’s what he’s calling an ‘AI powered song’.
I nearly got sick when I read it earlier. Ray didn’t like the sound of it either.
V fingers to so many artists out there, for me.
Nick Cave wrote a passionate open letter against it earlier this year I think. And you can understand 1000000% where he is coming from. He went through massive human tragedy in his life in the last decade and he used his music to express his grief, the human condition.
Tapping a few lines into a piece of software to create music/art makes Nick’s and all the other artists who are humans’ suffering, highs, lows etc redundant.
Art is special because it comes from an individual human being’s unique experience through life. Not to mention all the years spent honing techniques and styles.
I’m all for AI in things like medicine where it can be used to trawl through data in the millions and recognise patterns to help us create new treatments etc.
Or it would be great if we had something that would allow us to put products up on the shop website for the newsletter much quicker. Laborious jobs like.
But for art, no way, unless again, it’s for filling out a template or whatever.
I can hear Daniel Ek rubbing his hands. Conveyor belt content.
Anyway, I’m probably just an old man shouting at the cloud, and in a year’s time will have been swept along with it.

On a lighter note, here’s the shop instagram page. Young Adam’s latest vid at the top: https://www.instagram.com/musiczone.ie/?hl=en
Cheers, Ray!

Thanks Shane

 

Sine really for this week folks

Thanks for listening as always

Ray, Shane, young Adam and Mia