ON THE RECORD with Garth Cartwright and Travis Elborough: Matters Of Vinyl Importance
Greenwich Mean Time
at Ryan's Bar
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It is now seventy years since Columbia records launched their long-playing record in the summer of 1948. This revolutionary innovation ushered in the era of vinyl as the format for the music that would soundtrack so many lives.
First published ten years ago when the iPod ruled supreme and a vinyl revival seemed an unlikely prospect Travis Elborough’s <em>The Long-Player Goodbye</em> was immediately acclaimed as a brilliant piece of popular history that explored how vinyl changed our world.
The book became the basis for the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World in which he also appeared.
In <em>Going For A Song </em>Garth Cartwright charts the secret history of the UK record shop, from the age of the wax cylinder to the days of dubstep and the resurgence of vinyl and covering the whole colourful story of UK record-buying, from market traders selling music-hall 78s to ravers demanding Detroit techno.
Together Cartwright and Elborough will discuss the artistic highs and mercantile lows of making and selling music and consider the future of records and record retail in an age when even Tesco has a vinyl range.