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2020, coronovirus, essex, record shop, records, south record shop, South Records, southend, update - March 21, 2020

Physical Closed Online Always Open

For the first time in our history we're going to be closing the doors for longer than a day. This is a real kick in the teeth for us as you can probably imagine. We're a small shop, selling a relative luxury, in a small town. Selling records is a precarious business at the best of times. We understand everybody's in a tricky position and records are not at the forefront of your mind, but we believe we're doing some good things here, and hopefully you also see some merit in what we do. So if you are able, please do consider...

Record Store Day 2020 Releases

The releases for Record Store Day 2020 have just been announced. You can view the list HERE. We won't be stocking everything on the list so if there's anything in particular you'd like to get from us on the day, drop us an email - southrsd20@gmail.com

Rolling Stones '69 Author Patrick Humphries Q&A with Emily Mackay

Patrick Humphries will be in discussion here at South with music journalist Emily Mackay (Observer/Guardian/Quietus) about his recent book, Rolling Stones '69. It's free entry and the book will be on sale, with Patrick happy to sign copies afterwards. Facebook event page HERE In what was a momentous year of social change, the Rolling Stones experienced the most significant twelve months of their career. At the start of 1969, they were a successful blues band returning to their rock n roll roots after a recent experiment with psychedelia. By December, they had released the classic album Let It Bleed, lost...

January Album of the Month

Craven FaultsErratics & Unconformities(Leaf)>> BUY << Erratics and Unconformities is the first album by Craven Faults. It follows three EPs: Netherfield Works, Springhead Works and Nunroyd Works. Long-form analogue electronic journeys across decades and continents, and swathes of post-industrial northern Britain.The journey on Erratics and Unconformities picks up where Netherfield Works left off. We take the canal towpath out of the city. We fork north shortly afterwards. Is this where it started? The terrain gradually becomes more rugged. Familiar. Wild. Evidence of human activity is less immediate in this glacial landscape. It’s there if you seek it. But easy to ignore. If...

December Mix

Here's our December mix, with no (obvious) Christmas music (apart from 1). It'll see you through all the way to January 1. It's Blue - Scribble2. Angeline - John Martyn3. Weltweit - Wolfgang Riechmann4. Blue Joy - Mark Mothersbaugh5. A Girl In Winter - Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt6. Song Of The Sleeping Forest - Susumo Yokota7. Winter: Sleep - Claire Hammill8. Through The Night Softly - Jim O'Rourke9. Praise The Lord - Mary Lou Williams10. Come Sunday (live) - Cannonball Adderley11. The Winter Hymn (Ambient Version) - Pantha Du Prince12. 25 Dec 1983 - Haruomi Hosono

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Physical Closed Online Always Open

Record Store Day 2020 Releases

Rolling Stones '69 Author Patrick Humphries Q&A with Emily Mackay

January Album of the Month

December Mix

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