Happy New Year 2025! New Releases from Chat Pile, T Rex, John Foxx, Lambrini Girls and more

Wishing you a warm welcome to a new year at Off The Beaten Tracks.

2025 has already got off to a flying start with new releases from the likes of Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls who released their debut Who Let The Dogs Out just last week.

What's New In Store...

Oklahoma rock band Chat Pile release This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please. A reissue of the band's early EPs, remastered for intense noise rock fans.

Television Personalities - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: The Television Personalities radio Sessions (1980 - 1993) is a new collection released this week, it 'brings together classic radio sessions from Television Personalities, the masters of DIY post-punk and indie pop. Featuring two 80s BBC sessions that aired on John Peel and Andy Kershaw, along with a super rare 1992 WMBR set, this double LP features covers of Buzzcocks, The Raincoats and Daniel Johnston with previously unreleased songs and a bonus download WFMU session from 1993.'

T. Rex - Easy Action is a double LP, 'A compilation of carefully chosen tracks which are all alternate versions to the original 1970s released versions as well as some unheard material, to show a cohesive ‘Group’ vibe that was the classic line-up T.Rex. Notes by the drummer of the classic T. Rex Line up Bill Legend. All recordings are alternate versions.'

John Foxx's Metamatic is released on Grey vinyl this week. 'Recorded 1979 at Pathway studios, an eight-track studio in Islington, North London, this is an album of inventive, timeless electro-pop. Mastered from the original analogue tapes, the album still sounds incredible thanks to Foxx’s minimalist approach, which was partly inspired by his experience of watching Lee “Scratch" Perry produce records at Island Records’ studios in the 1970s. '

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As always we have lots of great 2nd hand vinyl, CDs, books and cassettes to browse through in the shop, as well as new music from Lincolnshire musicians and cards and merch by local artists and designers. At the time of writing our top picks in store this week are a sealed copy of folk royalty Eliza Carthy's 2011 album Neptune on vinyl, a near mint repress of Radiohead's The Bends on vinyl, a super rare Billie Eilish's My Future 7" Picture Disc and a near mint 2LP compilation Move On Up,  The Very Best Of Northern Soul from 2016.

If you live further afield you can shop for new releases online of course and for rarer finds via our Discogs shop, which is added to every day...

https://www.discogs.com/seller/OffTheBeatenTracks/profile

or ring the shop on 01507 607677 if you spot a release you like the look of.

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In Louth we are lucky enough to have our very own Film Club showing independent, foreign and classic films. You can pick up the new programme for 2025 and sign up or renew your membership in store now.

You don't have to be a member to come along to see the films, which are screened at Louth's playhouse cinema every other Monday evening, usually in Screen 2 which is on the ground floor and has wheelchair access.

The next film is Bolivian film Utama.

‘Utama’ (‘our home’) – the question being what make something ‘home’. Set in a high Andean plateau in western Bolivia, the film introduces an old couple who lovingly tend their crying, thirsty llamas and are faced with a terrible choice in an extended drought. A beautifully sensitive visual tone poem on what being human and being sacred means.

Alejandro Loayza Grisi / Bolivia / 2022 / 87 mins / Cert. 12A / Subtitled

Monday 20 January at 7.30 pm'

More info about the club and forthcoming films in 2025 here:

https://www.louthfilmclub.com/

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Hoochie Coochie Club presents British Blues Explosion of the 1960s on Thursday 16th Jan at The Millers Daughter, Louth. 

This is a charity event for The Sunflowers Children's Action Group, minimum donation £5

Doors from 7.00pm 

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For musicians and live music lovers...

Come along to a weekly Jam Night/open mic/players session every Sunday evening from 6.30pm - 10.30pm at The Boars Head, Newmarket, Louth

PA, Kit, backline and friendly atmosphere provided

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'Radio 4 favourite, comedy legend, and ‘the 42nd best reason to love Britain’ (The Telegraph)' John Shuttleworth embarks on a 40th Anniversary tour this year. Raise The Oof! kicks off this month in Stamford and including a night at Louth Riverhead Theatre on Saturday 19th April

https://www.louthriverheadtheatre.com/events/raise-the-oof-with-john-shuttleworth

And as always you can get your hands on all manner of John Shuttleworth merch in store.

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