National Album Day 19th Oct from 9.00am! + Special Offer In Store Only! + Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Kreator, The Last Dinner Party, Current Joys, Jelly Roll

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National Album Day 20204 is this Saturday 19th October from 9.00am

You can pre-order these special 'Best of British Groups' reissues on vinyl online right now, collect in the shop on Saturday 19th or we can post out to you if you are further afield.

 Specially released for this year's National Album Day is The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night on white vinyl.

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Newsflash!

***We will also have a special offer in store only on Saturday 19th October - 10% OFF EVERYTHING IN STORE across all New and Second Hand items. (excluding releases from 2024, including reissues and orders)***

Come and fill your boots!

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We have more new music in store again for you this week!

'13-time Grammy Award-winner Lady Gaga releases Harlequin, a surprise album inspired by the character Harley Quinn from Joker: Folie à Deux. The album was co-executive produced entirely by Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky, taking listeners on a genre-defying journey that captures the essence of one of pop culture’s most iconic and chaotic figures...This is an album made in the purest sense, reminiscent of a time when musicians simply created the records they wanted to make. An album meant to be heard front-to-back, all at once.'

Red LP and CD versions available from Friday 11th October

'Coldplay return with their tenth album, Moon Music. Moon Music features June's double MTV VMA's-nominated feelslikeimfallinginlove as well as the band's latest hit We Pray ft Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI.

In an effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music (both EcoRecord rPET LP and EcoCD) are strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord rPET LP products are individually numbered.'

Pink vinyl and CD versions available. Free poster with each purchase while stocks last. 

London indie rock band The Last Dinner Party new album Prelude to Ecstasy: Covers and Acoustics is out Friday 11th October and features the critically acclaimed studio album plus curated acoustic versions and covers.

Double amber coloured vinyl in stock now

'After the successful re-issues of earlier albums, German Metal Titans Kreator now re-release their landmark album Enemy Of God (2005). The entire album in a rougher and tougher newly remixed version.'

Single and Double yellow vinyl versions

'East My Love, the resplendent, country-tinged 12th album by Nevada singer/songwriter Nick Rattigan aka Current Joys, feels familiar. It’s meant to: the 12 songs contained within dive deep into the rich folklore of the American West to tell time-worn tales of love and trauma, heartbreak and spiritual renewal. Cast with a warm glow and finding Current Joys’ Nick Rattigan tapping into some of his lushest, most high-fidelity production to date, it’s the kind of album that listeners could see themselves within, and, hopefully, keep close when they’re most in need of reassurance or escapism. For Rattigan, though, it’s all that and more.'

Olive green vinyl available now.

'Award-winning, Grammy® nominated Nashville native singer/songwriter Jelly Roll (Jason DeFord) debuted Top 3 on the Billboard 200 All Genre Chart and #2 on the Top Country Album charts with his debut Country Album, Whitsitt Chapel (released June 2nd, 2023) - earning the biggest Country debut album in Billboard Consumption Chart history.'

New album Beautifully Broken is out this week - clear and gold vinyl

Fela Kuti's Alagbon Close reissued on orange vinyl

The massed horns, relentless grooves, and bold improvising that would come to define Fela's aesthetic sound positively revolutionary on these essential early recordings. This album heralds a series of increasingly politically-charged LPs Fela would release over the next three years. It was the first album on which Fela deliberately and explicitly challenged the authority of the Nigerian regime and the actions of its enforcers. Lyrically inspired by a police raid on Kalakuta in April 1974, the song is dark and addresses the Nigerian police's violence and apparent immunity from prosecution. Musically, Alagbon Close marks the transition between highlife jazz and Afrobeat. It was the first of Fela's albums to carry a sleeve designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, whose artwork became an integral part of the Afrobeat message.

That's just a little taster....loads more to discover in store and online!

The aim of our Speakeasy Nights is to encourage an ever growing number of local musicians to meet up, join in and jam with the House Band to create evenings of semi-impromptu classic blues / blues rock.

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/Hoochiecoochieblueslouth

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There's a new Ukrainian bakery in Louth called Delicious Happiness selling delicious cakes and snacks - we tried their Kyiv cake and honey cake this week and we thoroughly recommend!

107 Eastgate, in the old Dry Cleaners. Open 9am-5pm every day.