A choose group of the UK’s vinyl retailers are set to be profiled in a brand new YouTube collection to rejoice Document Retailer Day 2025.
Titled Behind The Counter, the 12-part collection is premiering each Tuesday main as much as Document Retailer Day itself on April 12. Every episode will showcase the colourful tradition surrounding a distinct impartial file store.
The collection is made in partnership with the audio tools model Bowers & Wilkins, in addition to Traditional Album Sundays and Document Story Day UK itself.
The primary two episodes have already gone stay, profiling London’s Sprint The Henge and the Isle Of Man’s Sound Data. Watch each movies under.
That is the sixth season of Behind The Counter, with the collection having amassed over 2.5million views thus far in complete. Different retailers set to be featured embody Bangor’s Bending Sound, Brighton’s Capsule Data, Fortunate’s Document Bar in Cornwall and Off The Document in Milton Keynes.
Additionally getting their very own episode are Hull’s Out Of The Attic, Devon’s Phoenix Sounds, Raven Data in London, Telford’s Spinning Round Data, Liverpool’s The Musical Field and 13 Data in Dundee.
2025 marks the 18th version of Document Retailer Day and it’ll function over 270 impartial file retailers across the nation, in addition to 1000’s extra globally. As is the usual, there may even be a collection of in-store events and a celebration of impartial file retailer tradition.
Submit Malone has been introduced because the ambassador for this 12 months’s occasion. “What an honour, I can’t imagine I used to be chosen to be Document Retailer Day’s Ambassador for 2025,” he mentioned in a brand new assertion. “Document Retailer Day is so necessary and I actually hope to do my half to maintain it alive.”
“We love hitting native retailers once we’re on the street, seeing all of the loopy paintings, the entire vitality in a file retailer is simply tremendous inspiring. I really feel at house. It’s actually an unexplainable feeling to hit up a store and dig via crates, simply see what grabs your eye,” he added.
With the brand new affirmation, Posty follows within the footsteps of earlier ambassadors like St. Vincent, Taylor Swift, Elton John, Noel Gallagher, The 1975 and Dave Grohl. Final 12 months noticed two big names tackle the title: Paramore and Kate Bush.
Final 12 months’s version of Document Retailer Day was held on April 20 and noticed releases from The 1975, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Speaking Heads, Paramore, Blur, Lily Allen, Gorillaz, Elton John, Paramore and Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds.
It additionally passed off amid information that vinyl gross sales had risen by practically 15 per cent within the first 9 months of 2023, regardless of the continuing dominance of streaming providers.
