On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain welcomes special guest Billy Hamilton on for a chat from famous Heavy Rock band, Silverstein.Billy and Iain talk about the band at length, discussing their 25th anniversary celebrations in 2025 and chat about their new record coming out to mark that big occasion. Billy is also a huge record collector so they discuss his collecting journey, talk through some of his favourite records and his set up and also where he loves to shop for records too, particularly some favourite spots he hits up whilst out on tour!
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Episode 37 - The Record Review | June
We are halfway through 2025 and again its been another great month for vinyl releases which is what Iain dissects in this months Record Review segment.He reviews new releases by Pulp, Matt Berninger and Little Simz amongst others and also chats about his upcoming trip over to Dublin to see Neil Young and Van Morrison who have both released new records in June.Pre orders are a plenty this month too and he mentions a few of the big ones dropping in the coming months.He also shares his views on HMV's recent vinyl weekend!Â
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Episode 36 - John Peacock | Coast Fest
On this weeks episode of the podcast, Iain keeps it local and chats to John Peacock the founder of North East music festival Coast Fest.Running a music festival in todays climate is getting more and more difficult and daunting so we dive into the detail of organising Coast Fest, discuss the lineup for 2025's festival and generally just talk about the music scene in the UK's north east area. John picks out a few highlights from the upcoming festival too and we discuss how he managed to book the legendary Lindesfarne for this year!We also talk about John's history in the north east music scene and his new project in North Shields, Red Studios!
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Episode 35 - Record Label Recommendations
On this weeks episode, Iain digs into his favourite record labels and specifically reissue labels. Record collectors all know how expensive original pressings of certain records can be so reissue labels are doing all collectors a great service in repressing records at reasonable prices.Iain picks his top 10 reissue labels covering genres including Jazz, Funk, Soul and more in this special 30 minute roundup digging into each label's history and recommending some records he has picked up from each label.
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Episode 34 - Brown Horse
On this week's episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain welcomes Americana band Brown Horse on for a chat off the back of their recent intimate UK tour. Brown Horse are a band that this podcast has been championing since the start and the band have just recently released their second record titled "All The Right Weaknesses" in April 2025. Iain chats with Patrick, Emma, Niall and Rowan from the band about making music together, the recent tour, their inspiration and influences in music and dive into their own record collections too.
About The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast
A conversations podcast talking to music guests from around the world featuring record collectors, record shops, musical artists and music obsessives. Born out of two successful coffee table books centered around interviewing vinyl collectors around the world, host Iain Wakefield digs even deeper into peoples obsessions with music, vinyl records and digging for vinyl.
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