Repressed Records 11th Birthday Celebration

Overview

A good record store is an amazing thing. In a world where we can connect with whatever sub-sub-sub-culture we identify with after just a few clicks, where so much music is available to you every minute of every day, who do you trust to tell you who is worthy of your limited time? You need the people at your local record store — both the staff and the customers. Nowhere else gives you a safe space to indulge yourself; nowhere else can a chance comment lead you down a rabbit hole of discovery; nowhere else knows what you want before you even know you want it.

Repressed Records is one such place. A Newtown institution, they remain a bulwark against the creeping gentrification and frozen yoghurting of King Street. And through their tradition of in-store performances, Repressed has helped a number of great local bands take their first steps.

There are fewer and fewer places like Repressed around these days, so we have to make sure we look after them, and even if the bands playing at their birthday party were rubbish I'd be telling you to get down there. But, of course, the lineup is killer, packed full of Repressed favourites and local legends like the Bed Wettin' Bad Boys and Woollen Kits.

If you like your guitars scrappy, your singers raw and your nose bloodied, I don't know why you would want to be anywhere else this Saturday. Their 10th birthday last year sold out well in advance, so make sure you get in quick.