Record Store Day returns for it's second 2020 date and Universal Music Ireland are excited to be a part of the celebrations.
Record Store Day is coming up to its second date of 2020, on September 25th. This year, you can support your local record shops, with some exclusive releases across three special days. An exclusive list of records from Irish and international artists which will only be available in record stores around the country this coming Saturday.
Here’s some of what’s coming up. So get on down to your local record shop, and support local business when it needs it most!
Dermot Kennedy has risen in the space of a little over a year to being one of the biggest Irish artists on the planet. Selling out venues from Ireland, the UK, and the US he has easily become one of the most recognisable musicians to come from Ireland in recent years.
During the lockdown, he performed a very special gig, broadcast live to the world from The Natural History Museum in London, alongside Paul Mescal. Viewed by an audience of over 15,000 people, the pair took Ireland and the world by storm.
His debut album ‘Without Fear’ was released October of last year, featuring the hit singles ‘Power over Me’, and ‘All My Friends’.
This Record Store Day, you can pick up an exclusive Vinyl Picture Disc.
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Tron Legacy movie with an exclusive Record Store Day blue 2LP vinyl release. This RSD version contains the seven bonus tracks that had been previously exclusive to different formats – including the vinyl-only tracks Sunrise Prelude and Sea Of Simulation. Tron lettering on the front of the LP is glow-in-the-dark. Tron: Legacy (2010) was the film sequel to 1982’s Tron, continuing the story of Kevin Flynn who, after being downloaded into his former employer’s mainframe, discovers that computer programs exist as living beings in cyberspace.
For their first movie soundtrack, Daft Punk created a score of electronic musical layers combined with orchestration to explore the film’s heroic and dark themes. Opening with an orchestral score the soundtrack then breaks into the world of the Grid with a clip of Jeff Bridges dialogue “The Grid – a digital frontier. Try to picture clusters of information as they move through the computer..” As the soundtrack plays the more the listener is immersed into this virtual world. Stand out tracks include The Grid, Son of Flynn, The Game Has Changed, End of Line, and Derezzed.
Released in 1970, a month before The Beatles’ swansong Let It Be, McCartney was Paul McCartney’s first solo album. Notable for the fact that he performed all instruments and vocals himself, aside from some backing vocals performed by Linda, it’s an album rich in experimentation, and the original home of hit single ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’. The album achieved the number 1 position in the US and hit number 2 on the UK charts. To mark the 50th anniversary of the album’s release, the album will be re-issued on 180-gram black vinyl as a half-speed master cut done at Abbey Road and includes a certificate indicating as such, plus an obi strip on the cover denoting the 50th anniversary.
For Record Store Day’s September drop date this year, The Rolling Stones will release ‘Steel Wheels Live’, a special limited edition double A-side 10” picture disc featuring two standout tracks from their upcoming concert film release. The concert was filmed in Atlantic City, New Jersey in December 1989, and a limited 6-disc format including a further full concert performance from the Tokyo Dome (February 1990) will be available from September 25th. The artwork for the Record Store Day 10” has been designed by the same artist who created the original Steel Wheels album cover.
Ellie’s debut album, Lights, catapulted her to international fame 10 years ago and includes the multimillion-selling title track and Ellie’s cover of Your Song by Elton John. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, it has been expanded with the seven tracks that were added to the record in late 2019 to form the ‘Bright Lights’ package, as well as six judiciously selected remixes. Bright Lights and the remixes have never been on vinyl before and this record store day comes pressed as a double LP on recycled vinyl in a sleeve made from recycled board.
To further reduce its environmental impact, it comes without shrink wrap, the sleeve opening protected by the addition of a second sticker. To further reduce its environmental impact, it comes without shrink wrap, the sleeve opening protected by the addition of a second sticker. The Brit-award winning artist has been a UN Environment Global Ambassador since 2017
To herald the 30th anniversary of one of the most symbolic concerts of all time, for RSD 2020, we are releasing a limited clear vinyl run of the landmark 1990 Berlin version of The Wall, Roger Waters’ landmark concept album. Recorded in the former ‘no-man’s land’ between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz in Berlin just eight months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the live spectacular was watched by over 500,000 people. A string of special guests make this a truly unique recording: few records can boast a range of stellar talents such as Van Morrison, The Band, Cyndi Lauper, The Scorpions, Jerry Hall, Sinead O’Connor, and Joni Mitchell. Transferred at Abbey Road and offered in 180gm vinyl, it is an opportunity for many to reacquaint themselves with an absolutely unique reading of Pink Floyd’s towering 1979 concept album.
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