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Kent vinyl shops prepare for Record Store Day
KentOnline / KMTV
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18/04/2024
The initiative was started in 2007 and has more than two hundred stores taking part across the UK.
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Final Records, the sound of music in Kent for decades has made a major comeback.
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Falling out of fashion following the rise of the CD, Records are firmly back on the
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charts.
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In no small part thanks to Record Store Day, where artists have been providing limited
00:28
edition records to independent music shops for over a decade.
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The Entertainment Retailers Association say Record Store Day is responsible for 10% of
00:38
all annual sales of physical music products that are sold on the high street.
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There are some absolutely fantastic independent record shops all across Kent and I think what
00:48
record shops are, is they're more than just record shops in this day and age.
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They're cultural hubs and spaces that bring like-minded music fans together.
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I think in a world which has become very digital, people really do enjoy having something physical.
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It's the nostalgia of Final Records, it's the physicality, it's not just the music itself
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but it's the artwork, it's the liner notes, it's the posters, the inserts, it's the whole
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ritual and experience of putting it on the turntable and turning it over halfway through.
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Gatefield Sounds in Wisterborough has been taking part in Record Store Day since it first
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started in 2007.
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It is a boost for us in our business and we're very fortunate as a record store to have an
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event like this.
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Many businesses don't have an event on the scale that Record Store Day is.
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We have people in our queue every year who meet up just at this time every year and they've
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been doing this for years and have formed quite a bond and look forward to seeing these
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friends that they've met during their experience of just queuing up through the night to get
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their records.
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Look, it may be a tiny bit quiet where I'm stood right now outside Gatefield Sounds on
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a Thursday afternoon but come Saturday morning this street will be packed.
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People queuing all the way down there to try and get their hands on exclusives and rarities
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from their favourite artists.
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One of those in line will be Bill Hicks who has been collecting vinyl for over a decade.
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What is the appeal of Record Store Day for you as someone who's collected it for so long?
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Something that is rare, not valuable, I'm not interested in the value.
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The community spirit, talking to people in the queue.
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It's the pleasure of owning them, the quality of them, they sound better.
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I proved that to myself 30 years ago in Hong Kong when I played Peter Gabriel's second
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album on CD and vinyl and I said to my then wife, "Vinyl sounds better."
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With nearly £10 million of estimated sales value going into this weekend, stores across
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Kent won't be expecting a needle drop in record sales any time soon.
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Oliver leads the sacks giving vinyl a spin for KMTV in Whitstable.
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