Overview
Now in their 33rd year selling music and pop culture paraphernalia, the quarter-acre vinyl paradise Real Groovy will be hosting a full day of events on Saturday 18 April to celebrate Record Store Day.
Record Store Day was launched in 2007 as a way to celebrate hard slogging independent record stores across the globe. The day is now celebrated annually on the third Saturday in April at record stores on every single continent (except Antarctica). Special vinyl and CD releases are typically made exclusive for the day and artists make special appearances and performances.
From 9am, Real Groovy will provide free rock n' roll face painting and an in-store soundtrack provided by a host of local tastemakers. Live performances will come in the form of one of the country’s hottest prog psych bands and best kept secrets, The Cleves/Bitch, 1960s spooky psych-beat five-piece Larry’s Rebels in what will be their first performance in 47 years, and Auckland three-piece Echo Ohs, who describe themselves as something between "psycho-country surf sounds and a goose stepping through swamp-pop, death-folk tangents."
Special releases on the day will include two new vinyl releases on the Real Groovy Records label: a double vinyl of The Cleves 1971 album alongside their unreleased 1973 album under the more confrontational title, Bitch; and a compilation of long lost master tapes from Larry's Rebels. Other releases include: a complimentary 12” EP courtesy of Red Bull Sound Select; six demo tracks and two previously unreleased songs from Liam Finn on 10" vinyl; a hand-silkscreened 7” from The Phoenix Foundation and Oregon band Eyelids; a re-issue of Shayne Carter and Peter Jefferies' 1986 collaborative 7”, Randolph’s Going Home; a remastered version of Shihad's second album Killjoy, and a re-issue of The Mint Chicks’ debut Fuck the Golden Youth, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.