Record Store Day 2025 is here! Plus Bon Iver, Julian Cope, The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, John Foxx

Record Store Day 2025 is (very nearly) here!

We are primed and ready for you, with hundreds of rare records up for grabs - our doors will open at 8am on Saturday 12th April and we can't wait to welcome you in.

Be sure to wrap up warm if you are queuing up early! Whilst there is a queue customers will be welcomed in to the shop one at a time. Please know what you're after when you arrive in the shop.

Based on previous years the queue is usually gone by around 10.30am-11am (this will be announced on socials) and we will then be open to everyone for browsing until 5.30pm.

We have over 300 very rare RSD25 vinyls and cds only released on this day... view our stocklist HERE

Live music from Experimental Sonic Machines 11.00am

and Lincoln funk rock trio Kings & Bears 4.00pm - get signed copies of their debut EP in store.

Plus Hi-Fi specialists Expressive Audio are joining us too with a pop up shop from 8.00am for equipment demos and giveaways

Check the RSD page on this website for all the info do CONTACT US if you have any questions.

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And aside from Record Store Day releases we have other new arrivals in store this week, including...

Julian Cope's Friar Tuck

The Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah-acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpool’s Blondest.

Bon Iver’s three-song collection SABLE was a prologue mired in darkness, a controlled burn clearing the way for new possibilities. 

Vinyl and CD available

The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream

One of the most influential albums of the 90s, and definitely one of our faves, featuring “Today,” “Disarm” and “Cherub Rock,”. It's an ambitious and cinematic masterpiece.

Double red vinyl version remastered

John Foxx Wherever You Are

'Wherever You Are' is a new solo piano album, played and composed by John Foxx. Most of the recordings were made at home and in the early hours of morning in the weeks following his rare live performance at Kings Place, London in October 2023, as part of the BBC Radio 3 ’Night Tracks’ event. 'Around dawn is the best time to play piano,’ says Foxx. 'Self-critical mechanisms mostly dormant, so I’m free to invent and enjoy for a while. The piano faces a window overlooking a valley surrounded by hills, where the sun comes up. There’s often an early mist in the valley - and quite often, it rains. Some notes and sounds resonate with remembered experiences and you get glimpses of times and people. It’s valuable. Quiet. Free association, myriad moments orbiting - and off you go. '

VIEW THESE NEW ARRIVALS HERE

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Events out and about...

A day of events including talks and music on Saturday 12th April from 10.00am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-of-this-wold-tickets-1220717060589

And for a great start to the Easter weekend...live music in Louth

Paris based band Morning Star Music Club are touring the UK to promote their new album Liminal Zone which will be available to buy in store next week.

"Melody and harmony and words of wisdom. What more can I say. What more could you want?" - Kate Stables (This Is the Kit). Liminal Zone is the sparkly, soul and groove laden fifth album from Morning Star Music Club, a project led by Jesse D. Vernon (This Is the Kit, John Parish, The Moonflowers). Previously known simply as Morning Star, the name has been extended to acknowledge the collective involved in the new record - Liminal Zone, the band's first release in over ten years. While Jesse wrote all the songs and most of the arrangements, the bunch of close musician friends he gathered to flesh out the tracks turned the recording process into what Jesse calls "a kind of music club workshop environment," with production from long-term collaborator John Parish.

Liminal Zone is a selection of both soulful and soul-searching indie-pop songs led by guitars and the vocal harmonies of Lisa Weisslinger (guitar) and Abby Tsype (bass) alongside Jesse's own mellow tones, with themes of losing and finding oneself, the breaking and mending of one's heart, and the fragmentation and reunification of family, community and even society as a whole. There's a lot of beauty and some wistful moments but plenty of sparkling fun and humour too including a cover of Jessie Mae Hemphill's 'Jessie's Love Song'. 

Liminal Zone is an album of gently ambitious indie-pop full of heartfelt performances, showcasing Jesse’s expansive talent and deep, lifelong love of music, tapping into wide ranging influences such as the Velvet Underground, Hendrix, Dr. John and Leonard Cohen, with a dip into the cinematic - ‘the sort of stuff you’d find in a Wes Anderson film, arrangements with a huge sense of scale.’ Lyrically, through its emotional earnestness, one glimpses a kindness rare in today’s jaded world. It asks difficult questions, yet there is no sense of urgency in the songs to find the answers - they’re happy to hang out and float on the groove of Morning Star Music Club’s bliss-tinged melancholy. Jesse D Vernon has been a full-time musician since leaving school. He was a member of indie psyche-rock band The Moonflowers during the 90s, has played violin for John Parish’s live band, and is a founding member (alongside Kate Stables) of This Is the Kit in which he played piano and guitar.' 

And you can see them right here in good old Louth on Friday 18th April at The Mayfair Family Club for a tenner in advance, £12 on the door. Families welcome.

With support from Caroline Cakebread & Pete Conner and Corasandel...

Louth 5 piece shoegaze band Corasandel (Jimmy Osborne, Holly Hall, Chris Lody, Esme Dodsworth and our own Mark Merrifield) have a new 6 track EP out, titled Red Hill and mastered by Tom Milner at The Pump House Recording Studios, it will be available to buy on CD at the gig.

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Louth Film Club, based at Louth's Playhouse cinema every other Monday is celebrating its 20th anniversary - it was set up by Alex McMullen, Louise Niekirk, Nick Louth and OTBT's very own Mark Merrifield. 

Now well established in the town, having shown hundreds of classic and arthouse films, with hundreds of members, the club will be celebrating with some special screenings in June.

The next screening is on 14th April at 7.30pm. 

 Io Capitano is an Italian film released in 2024 

'Two Senegalese teenage boys migrate from Dakar to Italy, their hearts full of hope. Garrone (Pinocchio) offers us what has been described as a ‘Homeric fairy tale’. Homeric scale it certainly has. We cross city, ocean and desert. Like many of the better epics, the magical realism at play in this film finely expresses a deeper reality.'

Matteo Garrone / Italy / 2024 / 122 mins / Cert. 15 / Subtitles

You don't have to be a member to go along

https://louth.parkwaycinemas.co.uk/lfc

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New exhibition at Louth Museum - April to October 2025

'A superb collection of photos, audio recordings, sociological comments and much more, relating to the period 1939 to 1989.  Curated by Julie Gough.

Come for a nostalgic look at life in the 20th century, and see if you can recognise yourself or your friends in any of the photos.  If you were in Louth between 1939 and 1989, there will be so much that seems familiar.  For others, come and see what you missed!'

https://www.louthmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions.php

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