VINYLCLUB record fair 2010 Wellington NZ

If you are reading this you have must have some interest in vinyl records. the great thing about being a music lover listener and vinyl records collector is looking for the stuff weather it be record stores, garage sales, second hand stores or your grand parents shed. Searching for those gems is one of life's challengers or even missions for any avid music collector. like many collectors, me and my friends have spend torturous hours on our knees bending our backs to get through boxes under boxes which contain hopefully the one record. Here is the funny thing when we find that one record we just look for the next "ONE" record.

Here in Wellington New Zealand me and a few other young lads will make things easy for all you collectors. We will be hosting the Wellington vinyl record fair "Vinyl club". Happening again Saturday 25th September 2-4pm at our favourite beer garden the stylish Southern Cross Bar and Restaurant located in the heart of Wellington city. This will be the 6th Vinyl club record fair and each one is getting more and more popular. With 10+ traders, each very diverse in there specialized collecting trading area ranging from 50s Rock n Roll ,Doo Wop, Blues, Country Rockabilly, 60s pop, R&B SoulFunk Disco, English invasion, 70s pop, Psychedelic Progressive rock, Folk, 80s cheese, New Wave, Punk, Rock, Metal, Electro, Reggae, Hip Hop, Dance, Children's, Spoken Word, Film and Television and loads more. There will be between 5000-8000 records to dig through. Again Southern Cross, Real Groovy records and Slow boat records are providing Vinyl club with vouchers during our giveaways. Djs Gem Wilder, Topher and Vanilla prison will provide the tunes. And the bar will be open to serve a huge range of boutique beers wines and food for your pallets, that's if you have time to get away from the crates.

Vinyl club record fair Saturday 25th September 2010 2-4pm, haha come round 1:30 if you are cheeky enough. Keen to trade or know more email Apa at vinylclub@hotmail.com See you there.

THE CLEAN, McDONALD AND GILES, IRON MAIDEN, ATLANTIC RHYTHM AND BLUES.

Getting home and finding a parcel at the front door is always exciting. For you non vinyl collecting people out there, parcels turning up at the front door is a common thing. The worse thing is when you put your girlfriends name as the sending name, not cool apparently. Anyway i somehow got the the large square package plus a bag of purchased vinyl my wallet with the key hovering around and my weakness towards the toilet inside the house. Contents, check. Toilet, check. Knife to open package, check. I open the parcel to find about 90 7" singles and EPs and ranging from g+ to ex and ranging from the 60s to the early 90s. I was very happy to find Avengers, Underdogs, Kinks, the Who, Beach boys EP and loads more. Good returns all round this purchase.

I have a few turntables but more around the house would be better like in my room and out in the shed. So that would make four setups haha. Anyway i do a lot of my listening in my kitchen. I can do cooking, dishes and stuff and have vinyl going, its great. The Wahine (that's women to you Aussie and bitches to you Americans) had a book club on so loads of not so geeky women going on about how they would love bookshelves in place of my records shelves. on the turntable first is one of my favourite LPs at the moment Clean Compilation by a great NZ fuzz rock band called the Clean. After that i gave 12" single by Iron Maiden call "Can i play with madness" haha which was funny then a soul blues compilation call "Atlantic Rhythm and blues 1947-1974 volume 4 and lastly i listen self titled LP from King Crimsons McDonald and Giles. Also a first time listen. I have been listening to a lot of King Crimson lately and was not disappointed in this well organised epic drumming psychedelic flute playing future sounding LP. This LP will get another listen due to only playing through half a side. blah blah blah.

PLEAZERS on ZODIAC RECORDS

Always nice to find a rare record. This fantastic Australian garage band were lured over to New Zealand by Zodiac records owner Eldred Stebbing offering them unlimited recording time and work. The pleazers were quite popular in New Zealand but a rumour (thanks to that site i stole this info from) they were bad boys. That's right New Zealand was a very reserved country in the 60s, who would have guessed. Subsequently they were banned from TV for there bad behaviour. They still managed to release super hot freak beat garage RnB that made them reserved Dunedin girls "shake". They shared a residency with another loud garage band the La De Das. They released a whole heap of singles a EP and one LP called 'Definitely Pleazers'. My copy has a close to a ex cover but unfortunately record is warp, what the fuck. Algd i will try and fix this. It still plays and it actually looks close to ex if it didn't have the warp.

First timer oh yeah

Why would i go all techno and start using a computer when I'm such a mono/early stereo vinyl format geek. Quite simple bol, I'm in it to get more records. Or is it to ramble on about records and everything i currently know, which fuck all compared to some of the collector geeks out there.

Currently listening to a LP from Kraftwerk called Radio-Activity. Yip Quite strange. Sounds like the devil compressed there keyboards Moog and hows your fathers. packed with loads of samples you would hear today. One of the tracks has the bass riff to the start of the Chemical Brothers, brothers gonna work it out. Before this i had on friends from the beginning from Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard which is a good rock n roll album also had some 70s New Zealand jazz band Pacific Eardrum self titled LP. this has a combination of New York 70s Soul Jazz/funky jazz and some interesting NZ style RnB. The pick of the day was a LP from Captain Beefheart called Trout Mask Replica. Highly collect able this repress on reprise pressed in the US is still a wanted record also rated in the top 50 lps of all time. With Zappa on the production anything can happen. Zappa and Beefhearts production usually meant all instruments were played totally different from their contemporary method. So this lp has out of tune of the pace guitars riffs, messy drums and dirty blues. very recommended.