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 book the legendary Lindesfarne for this year!

We also talk about John's history in the north east music scene and his new project in North Shields, Red Studios!

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 from each label.

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 inspiration and influences in music and dive into their own record collections too.

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 current 2025 tour.

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 about the upcoming tour, the new deluxe Bruce Springsteen boxset thats due out in June and the Springsteen Live Series that we all love and Kieran spends his own time reviewing.

More Springsteen specials to come but first, enjoy this one to kick off the series.

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 years including Danny & the Champions of the World and Grand Drive and he is also involved in running two fantastic record shops down in the south of the UK called Union Music and Looking for the Magic Records.

Iain and Danny talk records (both rare and common), how the bands current tour is going and what the plans are for the band in the future in this almost hour long conversation. 

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 selection too.

If you are a new collector to records, this episode is for you and will give you plenty of options to get started on your own record collection!