Flashback Records Staff Blog

Wow, that was the most manic hour and a half we've had in Flashback.
Our Essex Road shop has the following RSD items available as of 11:30. Subject to lots of change:

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It's RECORD STORE DAY!!!

The Queen's Official Birthday of record shop days.
The only day of the year when people still queue for records.

Below is a list of everything we have received from our dear distributing friends as of 20:46 on Friday the 20th April 2012. We may well get a few more bits in the morning. We have outstanding orders.

If you're planning to be out standing in the rain tomorrow morning outside our Crouch End shop then they should have most of this list too but a couple of things, which we only received one of, will only be in the big mummyshop in Essex Road.

Don't forget our Stackridge instore at Crouch End at 2pm and Essex Road's Fair Ohs instore at 7pm. By seven we ought to be dead on our feet and needing a beer. So that's what we'll have.

Without further ado, here is the list...

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So this Saturday is Record Store Day.
It's meant to be a day all about appreciating the remaining independent record shops and giving them a day's sales boost. It's a nice idea and the surrounding press it generates feels good. It's good to have the job you do remembered.
What with all the hype focusing on the [...]

It seems easier than ever to sell expensive records. I think those of us who spend money on rotating-disc-music are inherently impervious to the gloomy practicalities of a recession. It never made economic sense to buy expensive records. It was just good, and it is still good.

With that said we weren't inundated with £800 Beatles albums as we were in 2010. The top ten most expensive records that we sold in 2011 are either first pressings of classic albums that went on to sell millions, or shockingly obscure genre records that probably failed to sell at all. Continue Reading

2011 has been another record (no pun intended) year at Flashback. In April, Record Store Day helped us to our best week since we opened, some 14 years ago, and we almost matched it in the run up to Christmas. November and December takings were up almost 20% on the year before.
Vinyl is dead?

Our Top 40 selling artists of 2011 are mostly the established titans of 60s and 70s music, but with our expansion into selling new vinyl alongside second hand you can see some fresher faces creeping in.
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Live sets at Flashback Records in Crouch End - 144 Crouch Hill, N8 9DX.
7pm - Slow Show 7:45pm - A Rookery 8:30pm – Alex Highton

See here for details:
http://t.co/OVRCyyYz

To celebrate the release of Territories by Red Horses Of The Snow, the first album on the new Flashback Record Label. Available on Ltd Edition CD, and Ltd Edition Gatefold Vinyl. Official release date is Dec 5th, but signed copies will be available at the Launch Party...
Red Horses of the Snow - More Info Here:
www.redhorsesofthesnow.com
Tolerance [...]

Friday 25th November is Black Friday. Loads of Limited edition Vinyl is released on that day. Come early to ensure you get what you're looking for. If it's anything like Record Store Day. we'll have queues down the street when we open. In fact we may open early...watch this space...
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Vice Magazine Vol 9, Issue 10 - Music Reviews
8/10 RED HORSES OF THE SNOW -Territories. Flashback Records. Released Dec 5th
Somewhere deep inside you there is an unbroken 12-year-old who has been waiting all his life for this album that references the melancholy expansiveness of late Talk Talk, Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen and [...]

Flashback is launching a record label! The first release will be Territories by Red Horses of the Snow. For more details, including snippets of the new album, go to http://www.flashback.co.uk/label