Photography By Nikoletta Monyok
Record Store Day - one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar - returned last Saturday with hundreds of vinyl enthusiasts descending upon Stroud’s three(!) independent record stores Sound Records, Trading Post and Klang Tone Records to get their hands on this year’s run of limited edition RSD releases and dig through freshly stocked crates featuring thousands of records covering every genre under the musical sun.
As well as coveted vinyl a multitude of in store events also took place throughout the day into the early evening featuring live performances, in store DJ sets and exhibitions. At Sound Records DJ’s from midday included DJ Fade, Heavy-T, Harry-G and Jake Beefy followed by live sets from some of the South West’s finest hip hop artists; Griz-O, Bro, Skunkadelic, Layman, Dutty Goonz, Spokesmao and J Chalks. Round the corner at Trading Post twelve DJ’s performed various sets from 8 o’clock in the morning including the likes of Neil Arthur from Blancmange, Keith Allen, Situation Sound, Neil ‘Dubbu’ Wilson, Will ‘Mendoza’ Cookson, Tom Savage, Andy Edwards, Nadine ‘DJ Spooky’ Phillips, Mz Monique, Danny Toft, Steve Brown and the Donnelly Sisters. Further up the road at Klang Tone Records Ten Hyphen Twenty brought forth a set of live electronic soundscapes and the shop also featured an exhibition by Oliver Swanston.
We sent one of our regular contributing photographers Nikoletta Monyok along for the first edition of our new regular photojournal series to capture the highly regarded event which celebrates and highlights the importance of independent record stores and vinyl…
SOUND RECORDS
TRADING POST
KLANG TONE RECORDS
