THURSDAY 16th JULY in the GLASGOW store from 2pm - 8pm
SATURDAY 18th JULY in the EDINBURGH store from 11am - 5pm.
Yes our regular jaunt north of the border has expanded this year into two events! Our usual "Vinyl Day" at Loud & Clear's Edinburgh store will take place on Saturday 18th July. However this year we're delighted to announce an extra "analogue evening" at the Glasgow store the Thursday 16th July.
This new mid week event runs from 2-8pm, so there's plenty of opportunity to pop in on your way home from work.
We look forward to seeing all our regulars, and perhaps a few new faces for whom Edinburgh is something of a trek across country! Both events will be well stocked with all the latest new vinyl releases, and audiophile reissues.
For directions and any further information please click the link below:
SUMMER SALE NOW ON! Yes it's that time again...It's about time for a clear out here at Diverse HQ, to make room for more Diverse Records releases on our already groaning shelves!
Click on the link below to be redirected to a list of catalogue items now reduced to clear.
Fill yer boots, but be quick as sale items always disappear in a frenzy of activity!
NEARLY NEW LIST REPLENISHED Yet more second hand LPs appeared over the weekend. Click on the link below to be directed to the latest list. The bargains disappear fast, so please be quick with that order.
To order anything from the list please email orders@diversevinyl.com with any requirements, and we'll let you know what's available by return.
Despite the arrival of the Cowboy Junkies, there's still two new titles to tell you about, as we announce DIV 016 and DIV 017:
HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS
Diverse Records celebrates its first soundtrack release, with this audiophile vinyl version of the amazing soundtrack to the equally compelling film by James Szalapski.
It’s Christmas Eve, 1975, and 19-year old Steve Earle is seated at a weather-worn dinner table, surrounded by emptied jugs of wine, spent cigarette butts, and a guitar-wielding pack of honky-tonk misfits that includes Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, and Steve Young. The fresh-faced Earle leans over and launches into the sweet, backcountry chords of “Mercenary Song.” The room is nearly silent as he plays, save for the occasional clink of wine-filled glasses. Then, slowly, voices around the table rise up at the chorus into a rusty campfire harmony, united in smoke, drink, and song.
Heartworn Highways is your seat at that dinner table, listening in as these troubadours pour earnest confessions through strings and voice. In particular, Clark’s naked performances dominate the collection, his plaintive heartache searing through “LA Freeway” and landing right in your lap on the classic “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train,”. Equally moving is the bleak, dusty balladry of Townes Van Zandt on “Waiting Around To Die,” performed in his kitchen for an audience of two—his girlfriend and his blacksmith neighbour. Then there’s the growling back-porch groove of Larry Jon Wilson’s “Ohoopee River Bottomland;” the sweet, lost ballad “One For the One” by John Hiatt; and Crowell’s first-ever turn at the mic on “Bluebird Wine,” a song in whose shadow modern country music can only hope to have a foot. Featuring the very first recordings of Earle, Hiatt, and Crowell, and stirring whiskey-soaked performances by Clark, Van Zandt, Young, David Allan Coe, and others, Heartworn Highways raises the spirit of true roots music, representing a slice of Americana musical history and a generous tip of the ol’ cowboy hat to its pioneers.
We're very excited by the prospect of this stunning peice of work, and audiphile favourite, finally making it to the vinyl format! Heartworn Highways will follow the Cowboy Junkies release in, with a likely release around the first week of June. More details will be added when available, so please watch this space. However both titles are now available to pre-order.
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ELEANOR MCEVOY "SNAPSHOTS"
Diverse Records hectic release schedule continues, with a further look at the back catalogue of Eleanor McEvoy. “Snapshots” was Eleanor’s third album, from 1999, and has never before been released on vinyl.
A pivotal album in her career, this is the moment when Eleanor moved from a band format to a singular creation and vision of her own music. Says McEvoy “It was getting more than a little frustrating being just a member of a band that happened to carry my name. I felt a need to take charge of my music and create it in the way I wanted it to go.”
Legendary producer Rupert Hine provided the space, momentum and the production role for this most original work. Recorded in a chateau in France and in the amazing “Victorian/Modernist architectural clash” that is Metropolis studios in London, this is her most structural musical endeavour.
The album is best known for the YouTube hit “Sophie” (see the embedded interview) , the mini drama “Did You Tell Him?” the pure velvet of “Wrapping Me Up in Luxury”, the ode to slaughtered Irish journalist Veronica Guerin “Easy to Lose Hope” and the wonderful tongue in cheek country of “Please Heart, You’re Killing Me” (co-written with Rodney Crowell).
Totally re-mastered from the original mix tapes by Ian Cooper, an SACD will be available from June 15th 2009, with the vinyl to follow shortly, after being bizarrely missing from the retail racks for too many years.
This is her only album, on which she does not play violin, (before the overdub sessions she was attacked and her hand was broken whilst walking down the street on the way home from the studio). Luckily, recovery was complete, and the album stands as a unique moment in the history of one of Ireland’s strongest female talents. Snapshots will be a limited edition single 180g vinyl release, retailing for £20.
Finally wrestled from Sony, expect this release in late July!
SPECIAL EDITION VALENTINES T-SHIRTS Valentine's weekend might have been and gone, but if you're still in an amorous mood, why not profess your unbridled devotion to the real love of your life.....your record collection of course!!
If you're lucky enough to have a special someone in your life with the initials LP, then our limited edition "I LOVE LP" t-shirts come as an added bonus!
Here's Mark and Matt modelling the two colours available, black and white. The t-shirts are 180g virgin cotton and retail for £10. Please be warned that these are strictly limited edition, so please check out the accessories section of the catalogue right away to order your size!
The link below takes your straight to the right page to add the t-shirts to your shopping basket.
Valentine's weekend might have been and gone, but if you're still in an amorous mood, why not profess your unbridled devotion to the real love of your life.....your record collection of course!!
