The Vinyl Festival
is coming!
Fancy digging crates, hearing top DJs, browsing the latest hardware,
eating street food and drinking craft beer? Of course you do! Our
sister magazine Long Live Vinyl is proud to present The Vinyl Festival –
a weekend-long celebration of the format, taking place at Printworks
London, from 23 to 24 September
E
arly Bird tickets are now on
sale for The Vinyl Festival,
taking place in London’s
Docklands on 23 and
24 September. This inaugural event,
from the makers of Long Live Vinyl
magazine, is the UK’s biggest and
best celebration of all things vinyl- featuring household-name DJ
headliners, a massive record fair, a
hardware showcase, Q&A sessions,
street food, a range of craft beers
and more.
Organisers have booked Printworks,
London’s most talked-about new music
venue, for a weekend that will rank
alongside Record Store Day as a
highlight in every vinyl-lover’s calender.
A-list artists, DJs and vinyl
afi cionados will headline both days of
the event, taking to the main stage for
Q&As and to spin some of their most
cherished records. With plenty of pop-
up shops, indie-label stalls and second-
hand record traders, the Vinyl Festival
will be a crate-digger’s paradise.
For audiophiles, there will be
turntables, headphones and all manner
of hardware to browse and test out.
There will also be a gallery exhibition
featuring classic artwork and sleeve
designs, and live music, too, with sets
from some amazing turntablists.
THE HEADLINERS
You’ll hear compelling sets from
musicians and DJs who have spent
their whole careers recording, playing,
collecting and curating music on vinyl.
The fi rst four headliners confi rmed
are Steve Lamacq, Tim Burgess, Huey
Morgan and Edith Bowman.With The Charlatans, Tim Burgess
has recently released the band’s 13th
album, Different Days – and last year,
he published Tim Book Two: Vinyl
Adventures From Istanbul To San
Francisco, which is a brilliant account
of his record-collecting exploits.
One of the UK’s most important
protagonists for new music and
emerging bands, Steve Lamacq has
become a linchpin of BBC 6 Music. He
joined the station after 16 years with
Radio 1 and has recently presented a
series of landmark documentaries onBBC Radio 2, including Biff! Bang!
Pow! The Story Of Creation Records.
One of a select few musicians to
have been a panelist on both Never
Mind The Buzzcocks and Question
Time, Huey Morgan scored three Top
10 albums with Fun Lovin’ Criminals
before becoming a mainstay on BBC
Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. He recently
published his fi rst book, Rebel Heroes:
The Renegades Of Music & Why We
Still Need Them.
A champion of the mainstream
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