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Record Store Day 2021 . . . limited edition LPs still available . . .

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Hi POP Fans, More limited edition stock courtesy of Record Store Day. You can find out more information about these releases at the RSD site. First come first served.

Alcatrazz. Born innocent. £30.

Beastie Boys. Aglio E Olio. £25

Cat Stevens. Harold Maude. £22

Dave Davies. Bug. £25.

Complex. Complex. £22

Ennio Morricone. I’l bandito Dagli occhi azzuri £22

Jah wobble & Marconi union. Anomic. £25

The Selecter. Live in Coventry. 79 £23

Sun Dragon. Green Tambourine. £22

The Aliens. Doorway amnesia. £22

Various Artists. Behind the dykes 2. From the lowlands 1966-1971. £29

Various Artists. Erased tapes. 2.0. £25

We offer free home delivery in the Stoke-on-Trent area. Postage anywhere else is £3.00 (for up to three items). We can provide a range of postage option though … just let us know what you require.

Record Store Day 2021 – limited edition 7″, 10″, 12″s up for grabs

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7” singles RSD leftovers. ( 1 copy of each left)

Hi Pop fans, Some of you will have engaged with Record Store Day before. We still have the following limited edition items in stock BUT please note that there is only one copy of each so it will be first come first served. Just contact us below or via an email to strandrecords@hotmail.co.uk

Ernie K. Doe. Here comes the girls. £11

Fleet Foxes. Can I believe you. £11

The Flirtations. Nothing but a heartache. £15

Pandella Kelly. Stand in for love. £11

Freddie Mercury. Love me like there’s no tomorrow. £18.

Millie. My boy lollipop. £12

St.Vincent. Piggy/sad but true. £14

Vaughan Mason and Crew. Bounce, Rock, skate, roll. £11

10”, 12″ and EPs RSD leftovers. ( 1 copy of each left)

John Coltrane. Naima/ My favourite things.£12

Jerry Dammers. Demos 80-82. £15.

Dio. Angry machines £19.

Bob Dylan. Jokerman. £18

IWDG. In a lonely place. £19

Jamiroquai. Everybody’s going to the moon. ££18

Tom Moulton spring event. Fatback band mixes. £20

The New age Orchestra. Let’s dream together. £20.

Queen + Adam Lambert. Live around the world. £24

Spooky. On the rocks/Friends. £17.

Various Artists. Music for dreams. Summer sessions. £15

Young & company. I like. (What your doing to me) £10.

The Waterboys. How long will I love you. £14

We offer free home delivery in the Stoke-on-Trent area. Postage anywhere else is £3.00 (for up to three items). We can provide a range of postage option though … just let us know what you require.

Thanks pop fans.

Another Lockdown 2.0 sale – £15 albums

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Hi Pop fans, here are some more reduced price titles . . . £15 each. There are limited quanitites available. Free delivery in the Stoke-on-Trent area. Postage for up to 3 albums is only £3.00.

Payment via Paypal.

Please let us know what you need by Friday 27th November.

The Lemon Twigs “Go to school”, Lush “Ciao” (best of), Dead can Dance “Into the Labyrinth”, Dead can Dance “Towards the within”, Dead can Dance “Garden of arcane delights and Peel Sessions”, Yo La Tengo “There’s a riot going on”, Sonic Youth “The Eternal”, Kurt Vile “Walking on a pretty daze”, Soak “Grim town”, Lankum “The Livelong day”, Lankum “Between the Earth and sky”, Belle & Sebastian “Dear Catastrophe Waitress”, The Decemberists “I’ll be your girl”, Prodigy “Music for the jilted generation”, Prodigy “Their law”, New Gen “New Gen”, Powell “Sport”, The XX “I see you”.

Lockdown 2.0 sale … £13 albums

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Hi Pop fans, here are some reduced price titles. There are limited quanitites available. Get them whilst they’re hot!! Free delivery in the Stoke-on-Trent area. Postage for up to 3 albums is £3.00. Payment via Paypal. Please let us know what you need by Friday 27th November.

Aldous Harding “Designer”, Bauhaus “The Sky’s gone out”, Bauhaus “Burning from the inside”, Belle & Sebastian “Days of the Bagnold Summer”, Black Midi “Schlagenheim”, Bon Iver “For Emma forever ago”, British Sea Power “Open season”, Camera Obscura “Desire lines”, Cocteau Twins “Blue Bell Knoll”, Cocteau Twins “Heaven or Las Vegas”, Cocteau Twins ” The Pink Opaque“, Daughter “Not to disappear”, Dead can dance “Dead can dance”, Dead can dance “The Serpents egg”, Efterklang “Altid sammen”, Everything is recorded “Everything is recorded”, FKA Twigs “Magdalene”, Future Islands “The Far field”, Gary Numan “The Pleasure principle”, Grimes “Visions”, Honey Hahs “Dear someone happy something”, Interpol “Marauder”, Jack Penate “After you”, Kim Gordon “No home record”, Sleaford Mods “English Tapas”, Snail Mail “Lush”, Stereolab “pENG!”, Strokes “Is this it”, Strokes “First impressions of Earth!”, Strokes “Angles”, Strokes “Comedown machine”, The Amps “Pacer”, The Breeders “All Nerve”, The Fall “This Nation’s saving grace”, The Libertines “Time for heroes – the best of”, The National “The Virginia EP”, The XX “Coexist”, The XX “I see you”, Torres “Three futures”, Tubeway Army “Replicas”, Tune-Yards “I can feel you creep into my private life”, Tune-Yards “Sorry to bother you” (original score), Vampire Weekend “Vampire weekend”, Vampire Weekend “Contra”

Tim Burgess is our ‘Love Record Stores’ Day Ambassador #LRSD

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Tim Burgess has been announced as ‘Love Record Stores’ Day Ambassador. The Charaltans’ frontman is playing a key role in curating activities around the event which takes place on Saturday 20th June 2020.

Tim Burgess LRS

Tim, who has been extremely active during the C-19 lockdown and whose Tim’s Twitter Listening Party has attracted a huge social media following, is a passionate advocate of independent record stores and the author of the acclaimed Tim Book Two – Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco, an ode to record shopping.

Tim says, “The idea of what we would do without physical record shops has been a question we’ve asked in the past, but now it’s looking more possible than ever and we need to do whatever we can to help. Record shops are like drop in therapy centres for me – there’s a calmness, a familiarity and a sense of belonging that I don’t feel in many other places. A chance to talk with like-minded people – and maybe be reminded that you didn’t know as much about music as you thought you did. Like an animal threatened with extinction – we need to organise ourselves to try and stop it happening. Record shops have been good to me since I first ever spent time on my own – they’ve been good to us, let’s do what we can to help.”

An incredible 24 hour online party is being curated for #LRSD together with the aforementioned exclusive record releases. #loverecordstores is also in partnership with the Music Venue Trust to support their #saveourvenues campaign.

We will be in touch of course with further details about #loverecordstores but, until then, please help promote the event whenever you get the opportunity by visiting and promoting the Love Record Stores Day blog or Instagram @LoveRecordStores, Twitter @LoveRecsStores or Facebook @LoveRecordStores.

There are also the hashtags #loverecordstores and #LRSD to be used as appropriate when posting on social media channels.

Thank pop fans!

 

Last chance saloon . . . a 24 hour £13 vinyl offer (for those who missed out!)

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Hi Pop fans, one of our distibutors has managed to release a final set of reduced price titles. There are limited quanitites available. Get them whilst they’re hot!! Free delivery in the Stok-on-Trent area. Postage for up to 3 albums is £3.00. Payment via Paypal.

Flash sale 5

Amyl & the sniffers – Amyl and the sniffers

Bauhaus – The sky’s gone out

Belle and Sebastian – Days of the Bagnold Summer

Bon Iver – For Emma forever ago

Daughter – Not to Disappear

Everything is Recorded – Everything is Recorded

Gene Clark – No other

Interpol – Turn on the bright lights

Interpol – Antics

Kim Gordon – No home record

Libertines – Libertines

Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Sampha – Process

Snail mail – Lush

Strokes – This is it

Strokes – Room on fire

The Amps – Pacer

The Breeders – Pod

The XX – I see you

U.S. Girls – In a poem unlimited

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH AS SOON AS YOU CAN.  THANKS POP FANS.

 

Shop Life . . . my baby’s got the bends.

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Hey pop fans, got some gaps in your Radiohead collection? . . . you can pre-order any of these XL releases at special prices before Thursday 2nd April.

Just use the ‘contact’ option below . . . and we’ll get back to you about Paypal payment

Radiohead . . . Pablo honey / The Bends / I Might Be wrong £15.  A moon shaped pool / Amnesiac / Hail to the thief / In Rainbows / Kid A / Ok computer / £17

Thom Yorke . . . Eraser £15. / Tomorrow’s modern boxes £17 / Amok £17/ Amina £18 / Susperia £19

Jonny Greenwood . . . Bodysong £15

More offers available from XL artists The Horrors/ Avalanches/ Prodigy/ Jungle /Gil Scott Heron and more . . . get in touch for details.

Shop Life 31.03.20

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Shop life isn’t normal shop life at the moment. The physical shop has been closed since Saturday 21st March. We are all now in a crazy, scary COVID-19 world. For record shops, just like the majority of retail outlets, survival is the name of the game. With no bricks and mortar shop for the foreseeable future, it’s time to focus on the internet side of things to see if it can help us maintain the shop and business.
Here’s a few albums that folks have got in touch to buy this past week. #shippingsoon.#Queensofthestoneage #TheXX #SuperFurryAnimals #FranzFerdinand #MariaMckee #CurrentAffairs

If you are interested in any singles or albums, please get in touch. Thanks, Ken x

Do the Strand!

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Hello to all of you out there in blog land!

Strand Records is an independent record shop situated in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK. The shop opened in 2013. This is our very first blog post so please be patient with us. We are folks of a certain vintage and we are finding our feet blog-wise.

We LOVE music and we want to share experiences of listening to, and generally engaging with, various genres of music. We will be posting details of music releases past and present and hope to introduce readers to some new sounds and maybe reacquaint them with some old faves.

Although we are new to blogging, please note that we are on the following channels; Twitter@strandrecords, Instagram strandrecordstoke and Facebook Strand Records.

Hope to ‘see you’ soon,

Ken, Kie and Dave x