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
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 ...
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 o...
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...
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&a...
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 th...
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 Bru...
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 fo...
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.
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 & the Champions of the World were touring locally and lead singer Danny Wilson managed to spare an hour to chat to Iain about all things records and music.
Danny has been in a number of bands over the year...
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 and also catches up with owner of RPM Music, Ritchie Lattimer on how the day went for the shop on what is usually the busiest day of the year for an Independent Record Shop.
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 collectors, Kev, Ben and Billy along with Iain, discuss which records they have selected and why, over this bumper episode discussing the merits of their choices and digging into the genres from each selec...
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 Turrell but he also makes his own music and DJ's a number of nights around the UK and Europe too.
We discuss his insane record collection, making his own music and with the band and we ...
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 Horrors and many more, vinyl lovers are spoiled for choice this past month.
Reissues and pre-orders are a plenty also, with some great announcements over the last 4 weeks for some great records to look for...
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 Radio X and has opened for artists like Miles Kane, The Twang as well as being
on festival lineups with the likes of Noel Gallagher and The Vaccines.
Iain and Lissy talk about her career so far, an imp...
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 only for being the lead singer of the aforementioned band, but also so for his DJ nights he puts on around the city, being the pitch side announcer for Sunderland Football Club but most recently being the c...
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.
February was a great month for vinyl releases, and new releases in particular with records dropped from Doves, Manic Street Preachers, Brooke Combe, The Murder Capital and a few others!
We also got the Rec...
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 Carl Cox and Questlove!
Steve has spun records all over including places like Cafe Mambo in Ibiza, bringing his balearic sounds back from the white isle to the clubs of London and h...
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 drummer from that band, Andy Williams.
Doves have really been through the ringer over the last couple of years but the band are now back with a new record titled "Constellations of the Lonely&qu...
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.
The list is excellent this year with some great diverse titles so grab a coffee, a pen and paper and make a note of what you might be queuing up for outside your local Independent Record Shops.
There are some...
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