Hartlepool Record Fair There are three things in life that are certain – Death, Taxes and if there’s a local record fair Steve will go to it. Once or twice a year is sufficient for me whereas once or twice a month is Steve’s required fix. So we are off to Hartlepool a town famous …
Vinyl Guru – Newcastle-upon-Tyne The second shop on our visit to Newcastle is Vinyl Guru located on the Westgate Road. Neil has literally just dragged me out of Beatdown Records (something to do with expiring parking tickets and schedules apparently), Vinyl Guru is only a five-minute walk from Beatdown records, but as regular readers of …
Beatdown Records – Newcastle–Upon–Tyne We are making our way further up the A19 as we continue our odyssey. We have tickets for a gig later at the Cluny so we decide to park near the venue and walk into the city centre. The journey is very straightforward and get parked easily but we find …
Hot Rats – Sunderland Our odyssey this week takes us to the pretty market town of….. sorry, that was our last blog, our odyssey this week take us to Sunderland very much famed for not been a pretty market town. I have to say that Neil’s navigational skills were bang on this week though …
Our Odyssey this week takes us to Sedgefield a pretty little market town in County Durham. Obi Studios is a dual purpose business combining a Tattoo Parlour and Vinyl Records and is run by Mark Werrett and Abigail Wells.
Saxosoul Records Darlington Our journey to Darlington today did not require Neil’s debatable navigational skills as this was a journey that I used to take daily for around the fifteen years when I worked in this vibrant market town famous for trains and oats (Quakers of course). I can clearly remember when Darren Carr (the …
The Vinyl Odyssey Review Of The Year 2022 We have decided to give the purveyors of vinyl a rest this week and do what everyone seems to do at this time of year. We are going to review all the albums the stores we have visited have selected for the Press On collection. We’ll also …
Jumbo Records – Leeds Live at Leeds in the City Festival After our long day in Leeds, which produced our last 3 blogs by a quirk of fate a couple of weeks later we find ourselves back in the city. It’s almost our second home although we still struggle with the traffic system. We have …
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Kodaline Album Launch The Wardrobe – Leeds Steve and I have now completed 9 blogs in our Vinyl Odyssey, we have been to 8 record stores and a record fair. Our journey has taken us to many areas around the North of England and we can honestly say that every trip has offered something different, …
This visit to Leeds started as with many other previous gig visits to Leeds, Neil and I ‘discussing’ the numerous possible routes into the city and then negotiating the ring road within, after watching Brian Cox’s last series on the infinite wonders of time and space, maybe he should seriously consider a feature on the Leeds City central traffic system as it offers far more complexities than our solar system.
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