NEWS
SAM AMIDON Confirmed For GUILDFORD 25th May 2013
VERY excited to announce that we have Sam Amidon coming for our next concert, next month – Saturday 25th May – at Holy Trinity Church. – Tickets available now at the shop, or by calling the shop on 01483 566007 (£12 each) – Sam, whose last couple of albums were on the Bedroom Community label [...]
Artists confirmed for KEEP FOLK ALIVE! in Guildford, April 2013
We’ve confirmed the four artists for this years inaugural Keep Folk Alive! festival. Four very talented people from Britain and the US… Not to do things by half, following the success of the recent Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer show, we’ve a series of intimate acoustic gigs coming up next across April, which we are [...]
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer Live in Guildford – 28th February 2013
UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming demand for tickets, we have moved the concert to Holy Trinity church which is on Guildford High Street. It is 2 minutes walk from St Mary’s. ————————————————————————— A lovely way to start this years series of concerts in Guildford at St. Mary’s Church. Anais, who played here on her last [...]
Richard Buckner AND Doug Paisley confirmed for 3rd September, Guildford
Sorry, it’s taken me a bit to post this news here – put it down to the fact that it seems so incredible to have TWO great artists playing on the same bill in my hometown. Anyway – it’s happening and it should be a hell of an evening! Tickets available here as usual £10 [...]
Our Ten Best-Selling Albums of 2012, so far….
Well, it’s been just over 6 months in already so I’ve totted up the albums we’ve sold so far and here’s the list. It seems that if an album is on vinyl then that helps its figures – or maybe artist that are minded to put out an album on vinyl are the sorts that [...]
RECORD STORE DAY 2012 – 21st APRIL
We’ve started to get calls about whether we’ll be taking part this year.. and the answer is YES! This will be the 3rd year we been part of the most exciting day of the record buying year and it’s been getting better each time. Last year we had amazing queues round the block and I [...]
Our THIRD anniversary as an indie record store
We opened our record store in March 2009. Basically we didn’t have much of a clue what we were doing but it made sense at the time. Guildford is large town and all towns should have at least one record store. One that could be relied on to sell good music on both CD and [...]
PJ Harvey’s win at the Mercury Awards
Congratulations to Polly Harvey for her win last night at the Mercury awards. It’s a great album and a deserved winner. I’m just listening to it again now and inevitably it sounds slightly different now that it has been lauded as the best record of the last year. For the record, I’ve listened more to [...]
CHILLI PEPPERS NEW ALBUM + T SHIRT!
I’m not a Chilli Pepper afficianado, and have yet to listen to the new record. But this is an excellent idea, the new CD combined with the T of the album. The vinyl comes out in a couple of weeks, but surely this has got to be a great way to get early buyers to [...]
GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2011
Just a quick add to say we had a fantastic time at GM this year. IRON & WINE, LOW ANTHEM, BURNS UNIT, all great. First time we had seen LAURA MARLING who played a few tunes from her album coming out next month. BRILLIANT. I was taken by surprise at her confidence and poise. Most [...]
