BANDS SET TO HIT STAGE AS RECORD STORE DAY RETURNS
Bands will be back playing in central Stirling tomorrow (Saturday) for the annual Record Store Day celebrations.
A variety of Forth Valley area bands will play outside Europa Music in Friars Street – Scotland’s largest record store and second oldest store - to mark the occasion.
Store owner Ewen Duncan said:“this will be Europa’s 13th year participating, as the event was cancelled in 2020, and due to lockdown restrictions, the day had to be split over three weekends last year, and we could only sell records outside on a stall due to social distancing.
“However, we are excited to announce that we will have a stage for the first time since pre-covid in 2019, with live bands and musicians on throughout the day.
“Europa’s live entertainment on RSD is always well received and Friars Street is normally full of spectators, and we have certainly missed putting on live music for all to enjoy.”
Europa Music – which started in Alloa in 1976 and moved to the Old
Arcade in Stirling in 1992 before settling at its current home on Friars Street in 1995 – will celebrate its 46th birthday this November.
Ewen added:“record Store Day is an annual worldwide celebration of independent record stores which helps spotlight local stores and encourages people to go visit them.
“The event is famous for its thousands of exclusive and limited records that are pressed just for RSD. “Established in the US in 2007 as a celebration of the art of music and the small independent stores the event soon followed to the UK in which it has become a roaring success for all vinyl lovers.
The bands and stage times are – 12pm to 12.30pm: Robbie Hutton ( inset bottomw); 12.45pm to 1.15pm: The Goodall Band; 1.30pm to 2pm: Tom Houston; 2.15pm to 2.45pm: The Gator; 3pm to 3.30pm: Media Whores; 3.45pm to 4.15pm: Martin Mullady (inset top) ; 4.30pm to 5pm: Barry Honeyman.