07 February 2023 - 0 Comments

An essential date in the music lover's calendar is fast approaching: the Auckland Record Fair, with the next instalment happening on Saturday February 11th.

What's especially cool about this fair is that it's not just for collectors. Of course there will be a huge selection for vinyl, CD (and even cassette) devotees to dig through, but it's also a celebration of music in a wider sense, bringing together a genre mashup of DJs – and a very special guest vendor.

DJs playing on the day are:

Blind Mango Chutney (the 95bFM Jazz Show, and Blind Mango's Jazz )
Miss Dom (the 95bFM Jazz Show and Miss Dom's Vinyl)
Johnny Dambuster
Selectress (Bass FM)
Dujon Cullingford (Dujon's Digs)
With more to be announced...

The special guest vendor is Steve Braunias, respected journalist, and author of Cover Story: 100 Beautiful, Strange and Frankly Incredible New Zealand LP Covers. Remarkably, Braunias will be selling some of the records he bought while researching the book, so this is a unique chance to get your hands on some rarities. .

The fair is organised by Taranaki music legend Brian Wafer, who describes it as "A Record Love Convention."

Brian Wafer's record shop and label, Ima Hitt (founded in 1980), were responsible for numerous local releases – such as those by New Plymouth legends Sticky Filth – as well as international imports. He has also organised too many gigs to mention, and as musician and Peter Jefferies says in his AudioCulture profile of Wafer, "the number of posters he has and continues to put up around the city, is a work that will probably remain in progress for the rest of his life."

The Auckland Record Fair vendors are congregating from the Far North, Bay Of Plenty, Waikato, Taranaki, and of course Tāmaki Makaurau, bringing all sorts of sounds on all sorts of formats: 12 inch, 10 inch, 7 inch, CD and cassette. Some, but not all, vendors will have EFTPOS, so do bring some cash.

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The Auckland Record Fair

Saturday February 11th, 9am - 2.30pm

Freeman's Bay Hall
52 Hepburn Rd, Freeman's Bay Hall, Auckland

Entry: $10 from 9am (for the early bird scores), then $5 from 9.30am

If you'd like to be a vendor, call 0800 REKORDS (0800 735 6737).

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