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The Shellac Collective (who DJ using 78s in the UK) have just uploaded a selection of videos and photos from their tent at Camp Bestival:

http://www.facebook.com/SHELLAC78

See - the 78 scene in the UK isn't quite the doddery miserable mess that some people would have you believe!


Here is a podcast from some of the team, containing their latest broadcast on a local radio station in Cambridge, UK:

http://cambridge105.fm/podcasts/the-kip ... 3-07-2012/

Great bunch of guys the Shellac Collective, a real laugh and I'm proud to say I'm one of them! I can't often get to their main gigs but I'm often spinning 78s in public in and around my home town here in Kent.

Sure enough, we're not all doddery, miserable and messy over here in the UK. I have tons of fun with it! I guess you get a bad impression from a certain forum over here, which is unfortunate.

I dont think it's ever been implied that all collectors in the UK are doddery, miserable and messy...just certain society members and dealers. Unfortunately, you get that class of people in every country & in every hobby.

Andy Briggs wrote:Great bunch of guys the Shellac Collective, a real laugh and I'm proud to say I'm one of them! I can't often get to their main gigs but I'm often spinning 78s in public in and around my home town here in Kent.

Sure enough, we're not all doddery, miserable and messy over here in the UK. I have tons of fun with it! I guess you get a bad impression from a certain forum over here, which is unfortunate.

Just don't break the records when you sit on them. Okay, guys?

[quote="Wolfe] Just don't break the records when you sit on them. Okay, guys? [/quote]

Heh heh, never happened to me yet, except the once - I still have a copy of the Laughing Policeman that a very large friend sat on at Glastonbury Festival 30 years ago - just a lam crack, and that disc is still delighting the townspeople of Kent some Saturdays!