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  • Record Store Day 2026 at Slow Boat!!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Well howdy, folks – been getting lots of calls and messages regarding Record Store Day 2026, which this year lands on the 18th April – psyched to b...

  • Gorillaz "The Mountain" listening event

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Greetings, pop-pickers!!! Hope everybody survived the weekend's storm intact! May we gently remind you that we are hosting an EXCITING LISTENING EV...

  • Slow Boat Christmas/ New Year 2025

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Well, crikey - somehow, we have nearly made it to the end of another year at the proverbial rock'n'roll coalface - the 40th Anniversary of our foun...

  • The Beths "Straight Line Was A Lie" listening session/ Pickle Darling LIVE INSTORE!!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Kia ora, crew - sorry for the radio silence as of late - cold, tired, lazy - take yer pick... Anyway - weather is (theoretically) warming up, so we...

  • How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Edmund Cake's "Downtown Puff"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Behold the Golden Man!   Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? ...

  • The Phoenix Foundation "Pegasus" Vinyl launch instore at Slow Boat!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting our favourite local homeboys, The Phoenix Foundation, for an instore celebration of the first e...

  • Record Store Day 2025 at Slow Boat

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Slow Boat is simply THRILLED to announce we will be hosting exclusive Record Store Day instore performances from a solo Fazerdaze, whose recent alb...

  • Merch, baby - MERCH!!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Well, lordy, lordy me - what have we here, then?! After running an (entirely unscientific) Insta poll, we here at Slow Boat have listened to the vo...

  • How Did I Get Hear? #16 - Matthew Bannister on Fairport Convention's "What We Did On Our Holidays"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    As a teenage Beatle freak, there was no place for folk music in my life. Folk was seventeen verses and Joan Baez's flutey warbling. Just give me so...

  • How did I get hear? #15 - Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything" Todd Rundgren’s 1972 masterpiece, Something/Anything is his third album, though his first u...

  • FELIZ NAVIDAD!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    WELL... Not sure entirely where it went, but we appear to have almost completed another lap of the sun, and it's less than a week til Christmas!! C...

  • How did I get hear? #14 - Jeremy Toy on John Coltrane's "Coltrane Live At Birdland"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    In the early 2000’s Martin Winch had just released “Espresso Guitar” and I was playing in melodic hardcore bands and freaky free jazz funk bands, s...