Desert Island Vinyl is the theme for our May event. On Saturday May 30th we need six willing volunteers to take to the deck for 30 minutes each, sharing the records they would take with them to a Desert Island. Sound familiar? Maybe a bit. Here’s how to get involved…
Category Archives: Events
Undercover – 25th April, 2015 8pm
Our April record club meeting gives us a chance to listen to music as covered by other artists, with a bit of a focus on David Bowie. Have they brought out new fresh insights … or just destroyed the strengths of the originals? Tonight you’ll hear David Bowie cover his favourite UK artists from 1964-1967 in the first of two planned Bowie 1960’a nostalgia albums (the second never surfaced). You’ll also hear renowned drummer Dylan Howe’s recent take on Bowie’s 1970’s Berlin period. The third album choice have tracks that cover the full gamut of weird, wonderful and Wet Wet Wet. And of course there are the tracks that *you* will be bringing along…?
Space – 28th February, 2015, 8pm, at the Kirkgate Centre
**Updated with voting buttons 22 Feb**
As Ballboy once sang Space is brilliant! It’s so vast above our heads, such a place to marvel, to be inspired by – and so silent.
Space is also something we see around us every day back on terra firma. It’s what’s immediately around us. It what’s in our heads.
The possibilities of space are limitless.
We would like to try and have a Record Club that covers that breadth, that marvel – and unlike space, people feel they can just go to it….
Continue reading Space – 28th February, 2015, 8pm, at the Kirkgate Centre
Electronic January
Saturday, January 31, 2015 – 20:00 – 23:30Andy has agreed to host the first event of 2015 and his (self imposed) brief was “no guitars”. Have a look at the list below to see how well he has stuck to it! The first two albums of the night are Andy’s choices and they are…
Buffet Radio Christmas Spread
We’re pleased to announce that BCB Radio’s Buffet (@buffetdisco) will be putting on a “nice Christmas spread” for Record Club. It’s a proper spread as you’d expect. It’s err… a Christmas cracker, if you will (sorry!). Here’s what they told us they have planned…..
Scotland
Scotland has produced some fabulous music over the years, and we played a whole load of it at this Record Club event. Just over a week earlier the ‘no’ decision had been made in the Scottish Referendum, so it was a good chance to talk both politics and music.
Record Club 3rd Birthday Party
Three is the magic number, and so we celebrated three years of Record Club with tracks from our favourite albums over that time.
Le Tour Bandwagon
The Grand Depart of the Tour De France was just one week away when Record Club came around in June, so, like the rest of the world, wwe jumped on the bandwagon to create a playlist from the records brought along with a loose connection to the Tour De France, Yorkshire, cycling, etc.
We we’re not dissappointed as our punters were as broad or as obtuse as any Yorkshire folk should be. We had everything from the obvious – Pink Floyd: Bike, to the tenous – Echo and the Bunny Men: Killing Moon, and the inventive, All: Exercise.
Some great photos of the night were takien by Simon Sugden:
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Full track listing will appear below soon.
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Where:
The Kirkgate Centre
39a Kirkgate
Shipley
BD18 3RR
Records:
Tour De France
Artist:
Kraftwerk
Year:
1983
Event:
We only played the 12″ of this – but it had to be done for the Tour De france night.
The Smiths Influence
We had the suggestion of ‘doing a Smiths night’, and through the discussion we got onto the things that influenced The Smiths and who The Smiths, in turn, influenced, and on the night we had piles of records to choose from. Thanks to everyone that brought something along.
Of course there were plenty of Smiths albums and singles, but also great music from the likes of The New York Dolls, The Stooges, Soho, Suede, Gene, The Primatives, The Shirells, Chic, Sandy Shaw, Bowie, Echobelly, The Velvet Underground, and many more.
Hatful of Hollow was the popular choice for an album that got a full airing.
This is not the first Smiths album to be played at Record Club. In the past we playedThe Queen is Dead at our Independent Record Shops event back in October 2012, and Morrissey’s Viva Hate was played as part of our Debut Albums event.
Where:
The Kirkgate Centre
39a Kirkgate
Shipley
BD18 3RR
Records:
Hatful of Hollow
Artist:
The Smiths
Year:
1984
On the night it came down to Meat is Murder or this. Hatful of Hollow won partly because there are simply more tracks on it!
Thanks to Lee for bringing it along and sharing.
Record Store Day, 2014
Record Store Day 2014 came and went, and some Record clubbers got up very early and grabbed their Record Store day bargains, while others trotted along later and took their pick of what was left, while others just didn’t bother at all!
We ended up with a “diverse evening’s entertainment ranging from Rammstein to Spacemen 3 to early Adam and the Ants to, umm, Baccara (it seemed like a good idea at the time!)” as one fella posted on Facebook.
Yes sir, we sure can boogie!
Where:
The Kirkgate Centre
39a Kirkgate
Shipley
BD18 3RR
Telephone: 01274 580186
Records:
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Artist:
Baccara
Year:
1977
Event:
Just because…
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