Our second event of 2023 is nearly upon us.
Bring along some vinyl to play on the theme of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Perhaps your troubles seemed so far away… was today a fairytale… but then again tomorrow never knows?
Upstairs at The Triangle from 8pm. See you there!
The Saltaire Record & Retro Fair is back for 2023! As usual we’ll hold three fairs on the third Saturday of March, July and October.
The first fair of 2023 is on Saturday 18th March at The Caroline Club, Caroline St., Saltaire. Doors open at 10.00am until 3.30pm
It promises to be another great event packed with stalls and hosted by the friendly Shipley Record Club folk who’ll also be providing an eclectic mix of tunes through the day.
There’s a bar at the club as well as plenty of places in Saltaire to eat and drink. Make it a day out!
More details can be found at our sister site saltairerecordfair.org.uk, where you can also find contact details if you fancy booking a stall at a future event. See you there!
After taking a break in January we’re back at the Triangle for our first event of 2023 – Tales of the Unexplained.
We could have waited until Hallowe’en to do a spooky night but when you come up with the idea of doing something about monsters, mysteries and mayhem there’s no time like the present.
So get digging into collection for the weirdest, most mysterious, most MONSTROUS vinyl you can find. As ever, we like to play fast and loose with the theme, so don’t get too hung up if you think it doesn’t count. We’d rather hear it than not. We’ll be upstairs at The Triangle, hiding behind the sofa, from 8pm. See you there.
In December we had a World Cup themed night with a difference where we celebrated the global village, inclusivity and everything world-y. And there were one or two football tunes as well.
What better way to acknowledge the 417th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot than with a night dedicated to plots, protests and propaganda. Bring your vinyl along to The Triangle (Bradford Road, Shipley) on Saturday 5th November, we start at 8pm and finish around 11pm. Great beers served downstairs, great tunes and great company upstairs. See you there.
It’s soon time for our final Saltaire Record Fair of 2022. As usual we’ll be at the Caroline Social Club in Saltaire on Saturday 15th October, doors open at 10am and you’ll be met by 15 stallholders with boxes of vinyl and retro goodies. Entry is free, there is a licensed bar and the Record Club DJs will be on site all day to play tunes to keep you browsing and buying.
If you are interested in a stall for next year’s dates then head on over to our Saltaire Record Fair website for more information.
As the nights draw in we turned our attention to harvesting the best tunes we could find for an autumnal evening, including all of Neil Young’s classic 1972 album in full. We also took in some very generous donations for Bradford North Foodbank.
Not a night for arachnophobes, we played a bunch of tunes with a creepy, crawly feel to them, including Adam Ant (of course!), The Cure, Blondie, Jethro Tull, Tim Buckley, Mary Chapin-Carpenter and, ahem, The Beatles.
This month we explore the connections between music and literature. Paul will be taking the reins and playing, in full, Song of Innocence by David Axelrod, his 1968 debut and with links to William Blake’s collection of poems Songs of Innocence.
He’ll also be playing at least one side of Scritti Politti’s melting pot of politics, linguistics and philosophy Songs to Remember and The (mighty) Fall’s This Nation’s Saving Grace, with its own links to Anthony Burgess and Fritz Leiber.
And in between all those there’ll be space to play your own literary linked choices, so bring some of your own vinyl to play too. Or just come along and have a listen.
We’ll be starting uptairs at The Triangle at 8pm sharp(ish) and putting a brake on the wheels of steel around 11pm. There’s great drinks available downstairs at The Triangle and great company and music upstairs. A proper decent night out. See you there!
What are the pearls in your record collection? Which titles shine like a diamonds?
Perhaps you dig the Detroit Emeralds? Ruby Turner? Jewel perhaps? Grandaddy’s Crystal Lake? The Stones’ Ruby Tuesday? Prince’s Diamond & Pearls?
Why not bring along your shining examples to the next Record Club on Saturday 4th June at The Triangle in Shipley. As ever, our themes are there to be stretched to breaking point. We’ll be starting upstairs at 8pm and running through until 11pm.
See you there!
The Record Club 