November, already!
Greetings, everyone! Already gearing up for the end of the year, Xmas only about 6 weeks away!!!
Which means there's no time like the present to stock up on stocking fillers for your music-mad giftees - vinyl, posters, tee shirts, vouchers, CDs, DVDs, Bluray - you name it, we gottem! And a whole heap of stuff that any self-respecting music fan would love to add to their collection - not least of which is the magnificent new Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series Vol 12 - The Cutting Edge", featuring material from the great man's imperial 1965-66 heyday. The sound of history being made, as he and his band rip through unreleased, early and alternate versions of songs from three of his finest LPs - "Bringing It All Back Home", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde On Blonde". An amazing document, and available now as 2 or 6 CD sets, and 3LP (with 2 CDs!).
We also have NZ/ Flying Nun stalwarts The Chills first album in 19 years(!!!), "Silver Bullets" - chiming guitars, and a production not a million miles from their 1990 classic "Submarine Bells", Joanna Newsom's fourth album, "Divers", former Brunette Jonathan Bree's excellent second album, "A Little Night Music", and a fine new EP/ mini album from recent tourists The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
On top of all of this, can we just say a great big Slow Boat CHEERS to the terrific Courtney Barnett, who filled our store with fans last week and played an awesome half-hour set before her sold out Bodega show that night - signed stuff, posed for pics - and hell, even conceded the William Webb Ellis trophy to the staff of Slow Boat - what a champ!! If anyone is still in the dark about her terrific music, I would suggest grabbing her excellent LP from earlier this year, "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit" - a lock for one of the top albums of 2015.
As you were, hope everybody is doing great, catch you all soon, we hope!!
The Slow Boat Crew XX
On top of all of this, can we just say a great big Slow Boat CHEERS to the terrific Courtney Barnett, who filled our store with fans last week and played an awesome half-hour set before her sold out Bodega show that night - signed stuff, posed for pics - and hell, even conceded the William Webb Ellis trophy to the staff of Slow Boat - what a champ!! If anyone is still in the dark about her terrific music, I would suggest grabbing her excellent LP from earlier this year, "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit" - a lock for one of the top albums of 2015.
As you were, hope everybody is doing great, catch you all soon, we hope!!
The Slow Boat Crew XX