“As we’re a duo, we each had a different ‘first time’ with vinyl… and interestingly enough, they were from completely different genres, and Henry’s features a personal connection.”
“My first experience of vinyl was when I was four in the Eighties, and my eldest brother pressed his first record, a jazz record with his band Neon Penguin (yes, that was their real name). My proud mother relentlessly played his record to various folk, leaving such an indelible impression on me that as a teenager. When I made my first track on my new Akai sampler, I sampled the vocals from that very record. So, it’s stayed with me… and my mother still plays classical and jazz records, and I can’t wait till she plays our first record.”
—Henry
“I remembered rummaging through my parents vinyl collection around age 11, and being drawn to the dark, simple and broody cover of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid.“
“Their tastes usually ran to fairly innocuous Seventies folk artists, with record covers featuring wholesome looking women with long corn-coloured hair, flared jeans and daisy chains, clutching an acoustic guitar and looking pensive. Black Sabbath’s sleeve stared up at me from amongst the folk records like an angry bruise—dark, a little bit psychedelic, and slightly evil looking. I couldn’t get that record out of the cover fast enough and straight onto the record player.
Geezer Butler’s scuzzed up bass made the room feel like it was quaking, and at first Ozzy’s vocals sounded like someone was skinning a cat… but I loved it. Something in that record felt visceral, angry, and a bit scary—and “War Pigs” quickly blew my little pre-teen mind! It lead to a love affair firstly with metal—I devoured records by Anthrax, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Slayer, Megadeath, and Judas Priest after that—and secondly a lifelong love of vinyl.”
—Jacqui
Goldie Thorn’ Down Town Time is out now 2014 via Cabana Records.
