November 27th: BLACK FRIDAY MADNESS! BRICKNASTY EP, special DAFT PUNK reissue, LEWIS BARFOOT in-store, new KENDRICK LAMAR and a MICHAEL HEAD reissue

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Hope all is well enough folks.

Releases in the siopa for this Friday the 29th of November will include the below all going well…

The same day is “ black friday”  ( a load of boll**) in general terms a load of boll….another corporate idea to eek more dollars from folks….of course in our shop its brilliant and not at all like that.

Releases for the 29th Nov here please Shane…

BLACK FRIDAY LIST OF STUFF

Just some info re Black Friday….shop will open at the usual time of 10am

If you asked/wish listed  a black friday release , best advice is get into us on the day ( or at very least make contact ) as records go online at 8AM on the Saturday 30th November.

Got  most of what we ordered bar a few small bits i think … .BF is a funny one ( a load of boll…) ..in our industry its like a mini RSD , bespoke releases at the usual prices or more but no bargains, we are offered nothing at special prices, nada…folks come in thinking they may get hifi stuff at half price kind of thing and then think i am Ebenezer when i say we can do very little on price…so i think i  told ye already what it is…a load of…anyways heres the releases for friday the 6th of December…


 


 

Next instore ( i’m fully aware of) is the wonderful Lewis Barfoot who launches her vinyl record “ home”…well this has been a labour of complete love to get to this point for Lewis.

I’m going to wind back the clock nearly 12 months , when Lewis dropped into Shane to “ test” her test pressing she had received from Dublin vinyl for the new record … .they both thought the pressing wasn’t great and it went back to Dublin Vinyl.

About 2 months later Lewis was back in with another test pressing, this time i was in the shop, ahhh it wasn’t right, numerous clicks and Lewis felt a much duller sound than what was on the master…i feel a little guilty for saying “if its not right Lewis and your not happy with it , you should tell them. You want it to be right” …little were either of us to know about a month later Dublin vinyl were goneski….and so was Lewis”s 2000 euro deposit on getting her record pressed … .what a balls.

She dug deep to get the record made in a different plant ( never seeing a cent back from liquidators of DV) and its a credit to Lewis.

She will launch the vinyl in the shop with us on Saturday the 7th of Dec at 2 pm…. Playing songs from the album, signing her very precious records and having chats with folks…support of it would be greatly appreciated folks.

Shane was bang on last week about the Steven wilson thing ( more on that in a sec) when he said an artist puts every shred of them into making a record …a recorded artefact…a piece of art, a creation,  so Lewis has been through the mill with this whole experience, be nice if she left the shop on Saturday the 7th with a  smile.

On the Steven Wilson thing…talking about a load of bollocks, this is up there for me…was he chasing the “ pioneer “ thing with it…ah man its anti human….one thing in defence i will say, at least he was straight about doing it…how many may not be straight about it??…Bonos rolling joints in Killiney saying “ Edge man, we are going to release an album a year going forward with this A one thing” …sorry i is only taking the piss, love u2 and its members…Adam was on late late recently and was a top man  i thought.

Anyhoo….get in for Lewis is the moral of the story!!

Releases then for the 13th of Dec folks ( will be ordering these from record companies in the next few days)

Dublin band debut EP….real funky soulful vibe going on, i really like it…here’s a tune

Bricknasty – vinland

Class band…a tune from the show here

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues [Live on Boston Harbor]



 

Just received an email about that Steven Wilson release … .there had been a cap of just 3 copies per shop….email says order limit is removed, order what you like…anyways ill let it go folks!!

 

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

Sound, Ray, thanks. Hey everyone, hope yere well.
Yeah, I hope people push back on the AI stuff, like people did on the itunes/streaming stuff with vinyl.
This clip from Father Ted sums up the situation I think:
https://youtu.be/dwz6vBp8MPw?si=ezmcBB1Ea5DqnfMo

RIP to Jon Kenny too. Sad news. What a legend of Irish comedy he was.
Myself and a friend used to do our own D’unbelievables show for d’ parents when we were small.

First up on the coming soonish list (only a few today) is the brand new album from KENDRICK LAMAR – ‘GNX’. Probably the biggest rapper of the last decade or so.
Here’s a new track from it: https://youtu.be/fuV4yQWdn_4?si=Kqs22XDaueVphFVQ
Like it, funky! Album’s out March 1st next year.

And out on January 24th is a white vinyl reissue of MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS – Magical World of the Strands from 1997. Nice one to get. Michael Head is from the great Liverpool band Shack. He had a great album out last year, ‘Dear Scott’.

Also ag teacht:

Also, some price changes on the new FKA TWIGS record ‘Eusexua’ which is coming out at the end of January.

Here’s the shop instagram page before I go, should be a new Young Adam video soon.
Back to you so Ray.

Thanks Shane

 

Sin e really for this week folks

Thanks for listening as always!

Ray, Shane, Young Adam and Mia