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The first edition of Groovy Times has finally rolled off the digital presses. It’s a semi-regular online magazine about #vinyl and the culture that surrounds it Click on the link in the bio (above) to give the labour of our #vinylrecords love a spin

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. The first edition of Groovy Times has finally rolled off the digital presses. It’s a semi-regular online magazine about #vinyl and the culture that surrounds it

Click on the link in the bio (above) to give the labour of our #vinylrecords love a spin

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Looking forward to reading this! True Blue: The Barry Harris Story is now out. That’s a lot of Fratton Park years to cover!! Available from 👉 ebay.us/m/MBopiZ #eBay via @eBay_UK #Pompey

pn_neil_allen's tweet image. Looking forward to reading this! True Blue: The Barry Harris Story is now out. That’s a lot of Fratton Park years to cover!! Available from 👉 ebay.us/m/MBopiZ #eBay via @eBay_UK 
#Pompey
pn_neil_allen's tweet image. Looking forward to reading this! True Blue: The Barry Harris Story is now out. That’s a lot of Fratton Park years to cover!! Available from 👉 ebay.us/m/MBopiZ #eBay via @eBay_UK 
#Pompey

Sad, but I have been known to check out the posh property mags for photos of turntable setups This one from the latest Elle Decoration is a good looker - but I can’t fail to be intrigued by the choice of display albums (Darts, Jagger, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver)

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Sad, but I have been known to check out the posh property mags for photos of turntable setups

This one from the latest Elle Decoration is a good looker - but I can’t fail to be intrigued by the choice of display albums (Darts, Jagger, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver)

Stumbled across a Jamaican press of Gregory Isaacs’ 1974 debut in a charity shop (£4) - worth it for the Ford Capri on the cover alone They are still out there #vinyl #charityshopvinyl #vinylcollection

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Stumbled across a Jamaican press of Gregory Isaacs’ 1974 debut in a charity shop (£4) - worth it for the Ford Capri on the cover alone

They are still out there
#vinyl #charityshopvinyl #vinylcollection

The HARVEST record label’s back catalogue is awash with costly collectables Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest of them groovy-times.com/harvest/ You may need to start saving #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords


Groovy Times has shuffled on over to BlueSky - hence the inactivity However, just wanted to say issue 3 has opened up strongly with a David Keenan interview. Join us over there? groovy-times.com/david-keenan/


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From early ska and rocksteady through to prog rock and psych via acid folk and blues, Island Records’ vinyl back catalogue is full to bursting with unimpeachable gems. But what are the label’s costliest collectables? On @GroovyTimes45: groovy-times.com/island-records/ #islandrecords


Groovy Times is a magazine about vinyl. Issue two is online now Click on the link groovy-times.com Thanks to (among others) @JonSavage1966 @strangebrewpod @PrecRecs @thejonoscott @dinkededition @hipshaker_uk @XeaglepissX @grtnorthernpr @unionmusicstore

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Groovy Times is a magazine about vinyl. Issue two is online now

Click on the link
groovy-times.com

Thanks to (among others)
@JonSavage1966 @strangebrewpod 
@PrecRecs @thejonoscott @dinkededition @hipshaker_uk @XeaglepissX @grtnorthernpr @unionmusicstore

WH Smith stores are set to stock vinyl for the first time since 1990. Would be nice to see the return of these carriers as well #vinylrecords

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. WH Smith stores are set to stock vinyl for the first time since 1990. Would be nice to see the return of these carriers as well 

#vinylrecords

Vinylpedia 45 game-changing 45s Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees Polydor 18 August 1978 Siouxsie’s punk credentials were unimpeachable - but the band’s music quickly outstripped the genre. Is this the UK’s first post-punk Top 40 hit? #vinyl #postpunk #45s

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Vinylpedia
45 game-changing 45s

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Polydor
18 August 1978

Siouxsie’s punk credentials were unimpeachable - but the band’s music quickly outstripped the genre. 

Is this the UK’s first post-punk Top 40 hit?

#vinyl #postpunk #45s

Music and the movies got in on in the 60s to create any number of swinging soundtrack albums - Groovy Times rounds up the best and puts a price on them Place finger on link below and push down - if you want to groovy-times.com/screen-grabs/


Vinylpedia: 45 game-changing 45s No. 28 Virginia Plain - Roxy Music Island WIP 6144 Released: 4 August 1972 Roxy ushered in a bright new age of art-pop with their ultra-stylised debut 45. Artful, glamorous and otherworldly in all the right proportions

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Vinylpedia: 45 game-changing 45s

No. 28
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Island WIP 6144
Released: 4 August 1972

Roxy ushered in a bright new age of art-pop with their ultra-stylised debut 45. Artful, glamorous and otherworldly in all the right proportions

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The first co-write between John Cale and Lou Reed, Why Don’t You Smile (B-side of the All Night Workers’ only single) suggested the Velvet Underground’s sonic blueprint with its sinister drones and plodding rhythm. New blog: b-side.website/2024/07/22/nig…

vinylslam's tweet image. The first co-write between John Cale and Lou Reed, Why Don’t You Smile (B-side of the All Night Workers’ only single) suggested the Velvet Underground’s sonic blueprint with its sinister drones and plodding rhythm. New blog: b-side.website/2024/07/22/nig…

Putting a price tag on your on your own records - to sell or just for your own info - is a trickier process than you think @groovytimes45 had an in-depth chat with @CharityVinyl - a man who knows a thing or two about valuing vinyl Click link for groovy-times.com/valuing-your-v…


Author Andy Cowan @vinylslam presents Groovy Times with 10 classic B-sides that famously broke on through to the other side Click on the link for the article groovy-times.com/andy-cowan/


A mono copy of Bowie’s Deram debut went for £2,000+ in the Danny Baker @prodnose Omega @OmegaAuctions auction. Here’s the Groovy Times guide to other costly collectibles from the label @vinyl @deram @decca @bowie Click the link Groovy-times.com/Deram

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. A mono copy of Bowie’s Deram debut went for £2,000+ in the Danny Baker @prodnose Omega @OmegaAuctions auction. Here’s the Groovy Times guide to other costly collectibles from the label

@vinyl @deram @decca @bowie

Click the link
Groovy-times.com/Deram

One of Groovy Times favourite record shops is @unionmusicstore in Lewes. We had a slightly deep & semi-meaningful chat with co-ownerDel about the pleasures of running such an esteemed establishment #vinyl Click the link to read the feature groovy-times.com/union-music-st…


Sheffield’s premier boogie master @BobbyLeeBoogie introduces Groovy Times to the low-slung, pleasingly-propulsive world of choogle on vinyl . Which is good of him #vinyl #choogle Groovy-times.com/bobby-lee/


Abandoned turntable in an alleyway desolate Another casualty of the high cost of vinyl? #vinyl

GroovyTimes45's tweet image. Abandoned turntable in an alleyway desolate 

Another casualty of the high cost of vinyl? #vinyl

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