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The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast
A conversations podcast talking to music guests from around the world featuring record collectors, record shops, musical artists and music obsessives.
Born out of two successful coffee table books centered around interviewing vinyl collectors around the world, host Iain Wakefield digs even deeper into peoples obsessions with music, vinyl records and digging for vinyl.
Episodes
41 episodes
Episode 40 - The Record Review | July
On this weeks episode of the Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain rounds up everything vinyl related for the month of July in his monthly Record Review segment.Some great new releases have dropped in July including records ...
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Episode 41
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Episode 39 - Springsteen Special | Part 3 | My Tour Diaries | Following Bruce Springsteen on Tour
On this episode I continue on my Springsteen special's with Part 3 of series.In 2024 Bruce Springsteen released a documentary film called "Road Diaries”. This podcast episode is a special one as it’s my take on “Road Diaries” in what I a...
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Episode 40
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Episode 38 - Billy Hamilton (Silverstein)
On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain welcomes special guest Billy Hamilton on for a chat from famous Heavy Rock band, Silverstein.Billy and Iain talk about the band at length, discussing their 2...
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Episode 39
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36:28
Episode 37 - The Record Review | June
We are halfway through 2025 and again its been another great month for vinyl releases which is what Iain dissects in this months Record Review segment.He reviews new releases by Pulp, Matt Berninger and Little Simz amongst others and als...
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Episode 38
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Episode 36 - John Peacock | Coast Fest
On this weeks episode of the podcast, Iain keeps it local and chats to John Peacock the founder of North East music festival Coast Fest.Running a music festival in todays climate is getting more and more difficult and daunting so we dive...
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Episode 37
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27:47
Episode 35 - Record Label Recommendations
On this weeks episode, Iain digs into his favourite record labels and specifically reissue labels. Record collectors all know how expensive original pressings of certain records can be so reissue labels are doing all collectors a gr...
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Episode 36
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Episode 34 - Brown Horse
On this week's episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain welcomes Americana band Brown Horse on for a chat off the back of their recent intimate UK tour. Brown Horse are a band that this podcast has been cham...
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Episode 35
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22:00
Episode 33 - The Record Review | May
On this month's podcast episode of The Record Review, Iain runs through the months shorter list of new releases including new records from Andrew Cushin, Sterolab, Pete Doherty and The Sherlocks including a few others.Theres the pr...
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Episode 34
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Episode 32 - Springsteen Special | Part 2 | Josh Meany
This week, Iain continues on with his Springsteen special series and welcomes on another Bruce Springsteen super fan onto the podcast.He is joined by Irish fan, Josh Meany who, like Iain, has been following Bruce on his recent world tour...
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Episode 33
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30:42
Episode 31 - Springsteen Special | Part 1 | Kieran Lane
This week, Iain kicks off his Bruce Springsteen specials on the eve of Springsteen's Land Of Hope & Dreams European Tour starting on May 14th. These specials will invite some fans onto the podcast to chat about Bruce Springsteen...
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Episode 32
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Episode 30 - The Record Review | April
On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversation Podcast, Iain once again rounds up the month in the world of vinyl and music with The Record Review, this time for the month of April.He discusses new releases from Stereop...
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Episode 31
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Episode 29 - Danny George Wilson (Danny & the Champions of the World)
This weeks episode of the Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast is a special one as it features an artist that host Iain, has been working to get onto the podcast for a while. But, the stars aligned when the band, Danny &...
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Episode 30
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Episode 28 - Record Store Day 2025
It's Record Store Day 2025!On this weeks episode, Iain talks about how Record Store Day went for him and what he bought from this years list at his local record shop, RPM Music in Newcastle upon Tyne.He takes you through his day a...
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Episode 29
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34:39
Episode 27 - Round Table Challenge | Five Records To Start A Collection
On this weeks episode, Iain is joined by his 3 fellow record collecting friends from Leeds having previously set a challenge to them all to pick 5 records to start a record collection with for someone new to record collecting.The collect...
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Episode 28
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Episode 26 - Smoove (Smoove & Turrell)
This week, Iain is joined by Steven "Smoove" Moove on The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast for an episode as part of his ongoing Funk and Soul series.Smoove is one half of Funk and Soul band from the North East, Smoove and Tu...
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Episode 27
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31:34
Episode 25 - The Record Review | March
The Record Review is back for another month and Iain focuses on the new releases, reissues and vinyl news for a bumper month that was March.With fantastic new releases from the likes of The Lathums, Lottery Winners, Andy Bell, The Horror...
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Episode 26
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21:51
Episode 24 - Lissy Taylor
On this weeks episode of the podcast, Iain is joined by one of the best up and coming singer / songwriters around at the moment, Lissy Taylor. Shes been gaining media traction over the past year from the likes of BBC Radio 1 and Rad...
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Episode 25
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32:12
Episode 23 - Frankie Francis (Frankie & the Heartstrings)
On episode 23 of the podcast, Iain is joined by Sunderland music local and lead singer of the band Frankie & the Heartstrings, Frankie Francis. Frankie is one of the most recognisable faces around the city of Sunderland, not onl...
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Episode 24
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39:07
Episode 22 - The Record Review | February
Welcome back to “The Record Review”, a monthly segment on The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast where I run through vinyl news and reviews of what has been released and what has been announced over the last month or so. F...
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Episode 23
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25:57
Episode 21 - Steve Ellis
I am joined on this weeks podcast episode by a notorious record collector, Steve Ellis who, over the last 35 years or so, has amassed a collection of over thirty thousand records, and it's a record collection to rival collections from DJ's like...
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Episode 22
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48:09
Episode 20 - Andy Williams (Doves)
Back in 2001, the band Doves were the first live artist that I ever saw and that kick started my love for live music and eventually vinyl records too! I am incredibly excited about this week's podcast episode as I am joined by the d...
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Episode 21
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30:36
Episode 19 - Record Store Day 2025 | The List Reveal
The Record Store Day 2025 list is here!Join me as I run through the good and the bad on the list and my initial reactions on what is being released on April 12th 2025 for Record Store Day, both here in the UK and in the USA too.Th...
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Episode 20
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39:36
Episode 18 - The Record Review | January
Welcome to “The Record Review”, a new monthly segment on The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast where I run through vinyl news and reviews of what has been released and what has been announced over the last month or so. I...
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Episode 19
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23:33
Episode 17- Jonas Samuelsson
On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, I kick off another new series as I dip into the world of collecting Psych, Prog and Folk records.My guest this week is a Swedish collector with an incredible col...
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Episode 18
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