Record Store Day Australia 2009 & ANDRE RIEU
Today is the day to visit a record store and reconnect
with your love of discovering music.
APRIL 18 2009
Across Australia, 401 stores have combined for a day of celebration, artist in-stores, signings and specials.
Wes Carr, Ronan Keating, Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst, Jessica Mauboy, Wendy Matthews, Cheech & Chong, Alex Lloyd, Troy Cassar-Daley, Russell Morris and Little Birdy are just some of the artists who will be in stores across Australia today.
Other things happening today include Mall Music in Brookvale in Sydney will auction a violin signed by Andre Rieu for Music Therapy. The Rock Factory in Wollongong will feature local showcases all day. Wow Music in Leichhardt is offering for you to trade-in your old vinyl for the CD equivalent at half price.
And if you are in Mudgee, check out the cake.
Happy Record Store Day Australia.
NEW SOUTH WALES:
Ronan Keating: 1pm Mall Music, Warringah Mall, Brookvale, Northern Sydney
Natalie Bassingthwaighte: 1pm Virgin Megastore, George Street, Sydney
Rob Hirst 3pm Mall Music, Warringah Mall, Brookvale, Northern Sydney
Wes Carr :
10am: Leading Edge Music, Warriewood
Noon: Leading Edge Music, Carlingford
1.30pm:Sanity, Blacktown
3.00pm: JB Hi Fi, Parramatta
Jessica Mauboy
11:30am: Mall Music, Warringah Mall, Brookvale
1:30pm : signing at NV Liverpool .
Cassie Davies:
10am: Mall Music, Warringah Mall, Brookvale
12 noon: Virgin Mega Store, Sydney City
1:10pm: JB Hi-Fi Bondi
Cassette Kids
10am: JB Hi Fi Bondi
11:30am: Virgin Mega Store, City
Amber Lawrence: 1pm Richmond Records, Market Place, Richmond
Mark Cashin & The Lil’ Husseys 10am Leading Edge Lakehaven
Short Stack: 1:30pm JB Hi Fi Tuggerah
Melinda Schneider: 11am JB Hi Fi Erina
Jay Walker: 11am HMV Erina
Daniel Dawes:12 noon Leading Edge Warriewood
Bob Short: Mojo, Short Street, Sydney
Annie Capare: Mudgee Bookcase, Mudgee
Local music showcase:The Rock Factory, Crown Street, Wollongong
Local music showcase: Rock Sounds & Hi Fi, Main Street, Lithgow
Local music showcase: Leading Edge Music, Westfield, Figree
Mitchell Shadlow : St Mary’s Sound Centre, St. Mary’s
ACT
Wendy Matthews: 1pm Songland Tuggeranong
8 Local bands : The Music Shop, Garema Place, City Walk, Civic
VICTORIA:
Cheech and Chong: 12 noon: JB Hi Fi Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Russell Morris: 1pm JB Hi Fi Eastland
Little Birdy: 1pm JB HI Fi Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne
Pez:1pm Sanity Melbourne Central
Scissor File: 2pm JB Hi Fi Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne
Paul Costa: 11am: Leading Edge, Kangaroo Flat
The Bedroom Philosopher: 2pm: Collectors Corner, Swanston St, Melbourne
Local Music showcase : Leading Edge Music, Colac
QUEENSLAND
Troy Casser Daley: 1pm JB Hi Fi Ipswich
Texas Tea: 12:30pm Rocking Horse Records, Brisbane
The Gin Club: 1:30pm Rocking Horse Records, Brisbane
Yves Klein Blue: 2:30pm Rocking Horse Records, Brisbane
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Special Patrol : 2pm The Muses, Rundle Mall, Adelaide
Dave Gleeson: 12 noon: Sanity Marion, Marion & 1:30pm JB Hi Fi, Rundle Mall, Rundle
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Alex Lloyd:1pm JB Hi Fi Perth
Local Musicians Jam Session: from 10am Chinatown Music, Broome
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Local music showcase Murray Neck Music World, Alice Plaze Shopping Centre, Alice Springs
by Paul Cashmere
Record Store Day Australia 2009
I do live in Mudgee and was surprised to see it mentioned here! Unfortunately today is Saturday and by the time I saw this article it was 2pm. I hurried off down to the record shop but it had shut at 12.30. So I can't tell you all what the cake was like I'm afraid.
Drats. But we all appreciate the effort. In the US we have not had a 'Record Store Day'. I think that's an interesting concept.
I'll check Borders Bookstore here in Phoenix, Arizona & see if the arizona franchiseor would try to promote a RECORD STORE DAY here in the U.S.
I don't think we've had them here before either - Grayeme might know. When I looked through the shop windows it was all decorated with banners and posters and there were lots of tables of 'specials' and a big Andre section (not on special). So I obviously missed something. It's a wonder I hadn't seen anything about it in the local paper last week.
Just shows how special the blog is! You had to tell me about it Prudence! I have no idea where you are but I guess it's a long way away.
The first I heard of it was also from "Prudence's" post. It really did not seem to be very well promoted here.
It is a great concept, maybe it was more promoted through the younger generation information channels that us "old fogies" don't see.
Fancy "MUDGEE' having the cake.!!!
I love "MUDGEE" !!!
http://www.visitmudgeeregion.com.au/j/index.php
and of course it is home to our "Jill"
My son told me this morning he saw a lot of activity at the store while driving past yesterday. Said they had a band on the footpath and all.
I'm pleased to hear you love Mudgee Grayeme xxx
Thank you for that link. What a great place! I took an online tour.
Mudgee, I really like that name. I took the virtual tour & what a lovely place, a place I would put on my wish list. Beautiful wine country and perfect for bike rides. Jill, it must be a great place to live.
Mudgee is an aboriginal word meaning 'Nest in the Hills' and it is a very apt name.
It was such a good idea of Grayeme's to put the link on the blog so people could see. Thanks Grayeme. I owe you one.
Our family always lived in Sydney. We eventually had six sons and friends of ours moved here to manage a car yard. When they told us I remember saying, "Where's Mudgee?" Anyway, they asked us to come and visit them for a weekend. (They were good friends - not many people asked us and the six kids to come for weekends!)
Anyway, when we arrived they told us they were looking for a few acres out of town and said there was a farm advertised in the paper and did we want to come for a drive?
Well, they thought it was too far out of town, but we thought it was heaven. It was 129 acres, tucked away in a valley between beautiful rolling hills, with good grazing land, a couple of large dams, a creek with fish and two big swimming holes for the boys and a couple of kangaroos hopping about - to us city folk very romantic. The house was old and delapidated, barely livable, but it had five bedrooms and a huge kitchen, so was big enough for us.
We turned our lives upside down and made an instant decision and moved.
Although the nearest was a kilometer away we were surrounded for ten kilometres in every direction by the best neighbours in the world. They soon turned us into sheep farmers, pig breeders, cow milkers, orchardists etc etc. The farm wasn't big enough to make a living from so we had to work as well, but the boys all loved growing up there. Now that they have all grown up we've moved into town, to a house that isn't so much work. And now, here I are talking about Mudgee on the blog.
How extraordinary that it was mentioned. The population is only 8000 in town and another 8000 in the district.
wow! "nest in the hills", I love that.I can see why you were drawn to it, and a perfect place to raise a family too. This all seems like a piece of paradise on earth. Thanks for the trip Jill & Grayeme. If I'm ever down your way I'll look you up!
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records etc. Record Store Day is now celebrated the second Saturday every April.
Honestly, your Paul Cashmere knew about Record Store Day and now so do you.
And yes Jill, I do live UNDERCOVER and far away in the land of Honalee.
Sally, this is really a fairly new thing I think. Last year,in Springfield(a town close by) they had a record store day. If you go www.recordstoreday.com you can find out, on a map, where the participating stores are, here in the US, anyway. but it does seem to be an international thing now.
Well, I've been down to the record store to check out about the cake. The owner of the store was quite surprised to hear it had been mentioned here.
He showed me a photo of it. It was quite a work of art - not the violin I thought it might be, but a reproduction of an old record player with a vinyl record and even the switches beautifully crafted in icing.