On this week's episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain is joined by Jeff Hordley. Those in the UK will recognise Jeff as Cain Dingle from the TV show, Emmerdale but hes a huge record collector and also dj's the vinyl format too. Jeff and Iain dig into his collection and his history with the vinyl format talking about his go-to genres for spinning wax out on his Dj ventures. Jeff picks out some of his recent finds and favourite records too and they chat a ...

On this months episode of the Record Review, Iain talks through the new releases that have dropped in the relatively quiet month of October including albums from Taylor Swift, Richard Ashcroft and Robert Plant. He discusses the new Springsteen boxset "Nebraska 82" and also gives his mini review of the new film "Springsteen : Deliver Me From Nowhere". Finally he rounds up the pre orders announced and talks about the weekend opening for Roker Records, his new record shop in Sunderla...

This week on the podcast, the round table challenge returns and for this episode, Iain, Ben, Kev and Billy pick five debut records that they think are either underrated, forgotten or deserve more attention. Their choices span across a number of genres and eras and will hopefully bring these records back to the forefront of record collectors and music fans minds as they discuss their thoughts and opinions on each record.

Iain is back this week with another episode of The Record Review where he talks through the vinyl releases from the past month including new releases, reissues and also talks about what pre orders have been announced. September was full of great new records from artists such as Suede, David Byrne, Saint Ettienne, Red Rum Club and many more. Lots of pre orders announced too, including records to look forward to from Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Shed Seven, Pulp, Blur and Dido! Iain als...

On this week's episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain is joined by one of his favourite artists from the past few years, ahead of seeing her perform at her sell out show at Pop Recs in Sunderland, Kate Stables. Kate, or more commonly known as her stage alias This Is The Kit, has been a constant in the UK Folk music scene for a number of years now releasing six studio records and a number of Eps and singles over almost two decades of recording music. Kate and I...

On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversation's Podcast, Iain is back again with another episode of The Record Review where he rounds up the new releases, reissues and pre order news from the last month. August was quieter for new releases but he dips into talk about new records from The Royston Club, Black Keys and Wolf Alice. He discusses Coldplay's eco vinyl reissue campaign and also the Oasis boxset and then runs through the pre order news including stuff from The Beatl...

On this weeks episode of The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast, Iain is joined by a man who really knows his music and his vinyl records. Richard Morton Jack is a music historian and biographer and has written a number of bestselling books across many music genres. Whether it be dipping into the history of both British and American Psych music or telling the story of the tortured soul that was Nick Drake, Richard researches and writes to the most minute detail making his book...

Welcome back to The Record Collectors Club Conversations Podcast. This weeks episode is very special as the guest joining Iain on today's podcast episode is a member of the E Street Band, Barry Danielian. Barry has been a member of the E Street Band for a number of years now playing Trumpet alongside Bruce Springsteen and the rest of the band all around the world He’s also toured with countless huge names including Billy Joel, Tower of Power, Queen Latifah and Barbara Streisand to...

Welcome back to the Record Collectors Club Conversations podcast and to a new episode this week where Iain is joined by a special guest in she shape of rising star, Amelia Coburn. Amelia is a folk singer hailing from Middlesbrough who has been causing quite the stir recently in the UK music scene, gaining attention and praise from many music critics and fellow artists including huge names like Paul Weller! She's just collaborated with Weller on his recent record, worked with Bill Ryder Jones ...

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 from Paul Weller, The K's, Big Special and Wet Leg amongst others and of course, he talks through the new Bruce Springsteen Boxset. There are a lot of pre orders too and some great reissues that have dropped over the last month!

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 am calling “My Tour Diaries”. Over the past 3 years, I have been lucky enough to follow Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band around the world on their 2023 – 2025 tour. Across those 3 years, I’ve attended 22 different shows on two continents, in 10 di...

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 25th anniversary celebrations in 2025 and chat about their new record coming out to mark that big occasion. Billy is also a huge record collector so they discuss his collecting journey, talk through some of his favourite records and his set up and also w...

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 also chats about his upcoming trip over to Dublin to see Neil Young and Van Morrison who have both released new records in June. Pre orders are a plenty this month too and he mentions a few of the big ones dropping in the coming months. He also shares his views ...

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 into the detail of organising Coast Fest, discuss the lineup for 2025's festival and generally just talk about the music scene in the UK's north east area. John picks out a few highlights from the upcoming festival too and we discuss how he managed to ...

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 great service in repressing records at reasonable prices. Iain picks his top 10 reissue labels covering genres including Jazz, Funk, Soul and more in this special 30 minute roundup digging into each label's history and recommending some records he has picked up...

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 championing since the start and the band have just recently released their second record titled "All The Right Weaknesses" in April 2025. Iain chats with Patrick, Emma, Niall and Rowan from the band about making music together, the recent tour, their inspir...

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 pre-order round up of some exciting stuff coming out in the next few months and a brief segment on reissues including a deluxe boxset of Orbital's second record.

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 tours in 2023 and 2024 and has a number of shows in the diary for the 2025 tour Bruce is embarking on. Iain and Josh talk about his Instagram fan account for Bruce (@fanof_theboss), how Josh got into Bruce originally, his favourite shows he has attended and the c...

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, their history with Bruce and how they got into following the great man himself. On this weeks episode, Iain sits down for a chat with Kieran Lane who is a Bruce Springsteen super fan and fellow forum member where Kieran and Iain first met. They talk a...

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 Stereophonics, Self Esteem, Brown Horse, Lucy Dacus and Butler, Blake & Grant. He also talks about Bruce Springsteen's upcoming box set and pre order news from Pulp and Arcade Fire.