We all think about the songs that will played at our funeral right? But isn’t it a shame that we won’t be there to hear it?

That was the idea behind Remembrance Songs.

In similar style of our House on Fire event, 5 plucky punters stepped up to the mark to bring us 30 mins of vinyl that they would want played in remembrance. Like all good themes, we had a broad interpretation, with 5 great mixes of 7’s, 12’s and album tracks.

First up Marie played 30mins from her flexidisc collection, although she was keen to point out, this wasn’t what she would want at her funeral, and that she’s not really a collector, it’s just that she has loads of them. I Ludicrous, Preposterous Tales was my highlight.

Bill, Lyndon, David and Phil, all did fantastic sets. There wasn’t a duff tune all night.

Setlists were Instagramed, so you’ll have to try to work out what they played from thephotos in the gallery where we’ve stolen a couple of photos from @millie_marl and@dctwo

Record club regular, Keith, took control in November. He went with a theme of “Being Difficult”—that is, artists which have challenged the status quo by being “difficult” in some way.

Just to be difficult, Keith messed with the format for this event, so rather than pick three complete albums, he played side 1s from six different albums.

• The Residents: ‘Meet the Residents’, 1974
• Tangerine Dream: ‘Rubycon’, 1975
• Holger Czukay: ‘Movies’, 1979
• Sonic Youth: ‘EVOL’, 1986
• Test Dept.: ‘The Unacceptable Face of Freedom’, 1986
• My Bloody Valentine: ‘Loveless’, 1991

Records:

EVOL

Artist:

Sonic Youth

Year:

1986

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

After the success of Death Valley ’69, Sonic Youth set their distorted re-tuned guitars on stun and knock out an album of beautifully dischordant tunes. It’s Pop, Jim, but not as we know it.

EVOL on Wikipedia

Loveless

Artist:

My Bloody Valentine

Year:

1991

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

The record that nearly bankrupted Creation, recorded in 19 different studios over two years, provided a no-compromise vision of music as how it really sounds in your head. A very influential album, they found it almost impossible to follow up, but they did, 22 years later!

Loveless on Wikipedia

Meet the Residents

Artist:

The Residents

Year:

1974

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

Featured in the ‘Being Difficult’ event, this album cover upset the Beatles’ label. The Residents’ first album set their manifesto: throw away everything you learned about making music, and start again. No genre is safe from deconstruction or parody.

Meet the Residents on Wikipedia

Movies

Artist:

Holger Czukay

Year:

1979

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

Can’s bassist and engineer goes solo, and shows off his avant garde qualifications as a former student of Stockhausen and early adopter of World Music and Sampling.

Holger Czukay on Wikipedia

Rubycon

Artist:

Tangerine Dream

Year:

1975

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

Widely regarded as one of their best albums, this second outing on the Virgin label capitalised on the success of Phaedre, but with a more hypnotic and rhythmic result.

Rubycon on Wikipedia

The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom

Artist:

Test Dept.

Year:

1986

Event:

November 2012: Being Difficult

This collective of political artists prefer metal bars, industrial materials and hammers to musical instruments and produce a surprisingly musical result.

Test Dept. on Wikipedia

Sandwiched between the year defining events of 2012, the Jubilee and the Olympics, July’s event had a Jubilympics theme.

Here’s what YOU did…

You picked out some records that were released in either a Jubilee and/or Olympicyear, and that you wanted to hear at the July Record Club.

So WE selected some of them for the vote.

So YOU voted and you chose the records below.

Again it was a lovely intimate night, with record talk, nostalgia, good company and a fine bar (even if we were a bit more disorganised than usual).

Lovely to see both new and returning faces. Thanks to Daz for the photos

If you have ideas for future events tweet, or email us.

Records:

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols

Artist:

Sex Pistols

Year:

1977

Event:

July 2012: Jubilympics!

At last a Jubilee record. God save the Queen!

Like many albums you think you know, for some of us this was the first time of hearing it all the way through. Intersting to hear it 35 years on, and trying to work out what all the fuss was about back then!

Never Mind the Bollocks on Wikipedia

Seventeen Seconds

Artist:

The Cure

Year:

1980

Event:

July 2012: Jubilympics!

This was a big one for a few of us in our teenage years.

Winner of the Jubilympics vote, personally I was quite surprised. It had made it into the vote on a whim and went on to win it.

 

Seventeen Seconds on Wikipedia

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Artist:

David Bowie

Year:

1972

Event:

July 2012: Jubilympics!

A popular choice that came second in theJubilimpics poll.

The instructions on the sleave read “Play at maximum volume” so we did. (Well obviously that would have been too loud – but it did sound good cranked up a bit!)

Ziggy Stardust on Wikipedia