Sorting my 7inch record database by date to find the 70s records reveals quite a collection (Click to look closer). Seeing what I have is easy enough, finding the actual records is much trickier!
Currently scattered around the house there are some 3020 7inch records that have been added to the database and more still to list..
Now the spooky season has gone its almost time to go full on Christmas…
I thought I’d ease the lovely folk at Bara Menyn Bakehouse into the festive vinyl with a few albums to lead the spirits from one to the other…
Ghost stories are a great part of the Christmas entertainment of course, I’d love to find some M.R James on vinyl…
In anticipation of the Oriel Myrddin Taste Night next week I have started sorting through 45s for my 70s selection box…
Quite a few to look through yet…
I recently started to alphabetise my 7inch collection, though so far I’ve just done the ones in picture sleeves, eventually my database will become much more useful! Below is the first page of entries arranged by date starting 1970…
I will be mostly playing the 70s selections on this Technics SL-Q2 (kindly donated by Toby Downing I think). According to vinylengine.com it dates from 1979-1981 so rather appropriate I’d say!
Given the quantity of disco music that’s likely to feature, I think it’s only right that I try out my latest mirror ball finds, look at them shine!
Looking forward to exploring my collection of 70s records for this event in Oriel Myrddin Gallery on the 29th November.
I made this Aphex Twin inspired extra graphic for it from a 70s toy record player box…
The last Halloween themed vinyl record selection at Bara Menyn Bakehouse.
As part of Absent but not Forgotten and in celebration of the Halloween season, the small exhibition of records in Bara Menyn Bakehouse, Cardigan has transformed…
Absent but not Forgotten is an ongoing, experimental art project formed in 2010 by west Wales artists, Kathryn Campbell Dodd and Jacob Whittaker.
Their work explores and alludes to ideas of the paranormal, ghost hunting and the propensity to search for supernatural explanations to unexpected and unexplained phenomena.
With a particular interest in the visual aesthetics of the genre, this changing selection of records combines rock and pop, classic soundtracks, spoken word and sound effects to explore the diverse and evocative imagery in celebration of the Halloween season.
Absent but not Forgotten are also currently in the Oriel Blodau Bach gallery with a new work, Something Strange in the Neighbourhood. The exhibition runs until November 16th.
I selected this to play as part of a performance at the Glynn Vivian gallery in Swansea for the ‘End of Empire‘ exhibition preview.
The record includes the famous wartime songs (mentioned in this previous post) ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag’ written by Welshmen George Asaf (aka George Henry Powell) and his brother Felix Powell, and ‘Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty’ written by Swansea born Fred Godfrey (aka Llewelyn Williams).
1930s 8 inch Eclipse gramophone record playing on a Numark PT01.
At first manufactured by the Crystalate company (later taken over by Decca) for the Woolworth store chain, Eclipse was launched as a replacement for the Victory label. It was the first to be packaged in a brown paper sleeve, and featured dynamic promotional designs. Even so, the product was still pegged at a low price, even through the ‘slump’ or depression-era years of the early 1930s, finally disappearing in 1935.
Text from http://www.tedstaunton.com
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