My First Vinyl-ist Blog.

('Yesterday Man' by Chris Andrews, plays softly, during the following)

There's been an overhaul in the household during lockdown recently. After being the proud owners of an original Seeburg Jukebox for a few years, we've only had one set of records in it. During lockdown we've now decided to switch all the records up and put some new ones in. To some people, this can be an incredibly excruciating experience. The thought of sifting through hundreds and hundreds of records and cataloguing them, would make some people rather go swimming in an ice bath. For me, it can be one of the most therapeutic activities to do.

Recently, in the last ten years, the value of Vinyl has started to sky rocket. In some ways this means that old legendary records can remain a mythical object...

A: Oh what? I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles, on original label. Yeah, I saw it in a car boot once.

B: Bollocks, did you.

And so the wheel turns and people can continue to dream of finding the record that they might have heard a thousand times on Spotify or YouTube, but now the chances of holding the physical copy become too tantalising to contain. One night in a lock-in in one of my favourite pubs a year or so ago, I heard this record in the LandLord's Jukebox. I immediately disregarded it as being an original. Even after removing the record from the Juke and displaying it my hands, seeing the LAURIE label it was produced on, I still didn't believe him. It's a toss up between the amount I must have drunk that night, and my disbelief that such a rare and sought-after, record could wind up in a quiet little village in the heart of the Albion countryside. A week ago, we bought it for my Mum's Birthday and now it holds pride and place in the Juke... Right there- Runarond Sue- U7 and the B-side 'Runaway Girl - V7.

As I type, I'm currently filing a job lot that I never really organised. I attempted to play one my favourite albums... 'Disreali Gears' by Cream, however, 'Flower Power' guitars and obscure bass patterns and lyrics that make you feel like you're tripping out, is not the order of the day at Eleven in the morning. The physical copy of vinyl makes me appreciate music so much more. The first vinyl I ever heard was TELSTAR by The Tornadoes, which was also the first British record to top the US charts in 1964.

Just as you think it maybe a way of listening to music that's dying out, just like the Sun in the morning, it's coming back up!