Psychotron have made another discovery – this time it is a local band – and not just Birmingham local but even closer – Sutton Coldfield. MERCY AND THE WILD SEA We are delighted to be relaunching this progressive rock album created by some local musicians for a theatrical project performed at the Edinburgh festival in […]
Various Artists, ‘They Never Made It – Vol 1’ Psychotron Records, together with SoundHawk Records of Finland have teamed up to put out a compilation mix of lost music. A “tongue in cheek” compilation of “lost bands” featuring Lo-Fi loud garage rock, punk, Power Pop and Psychedelia. All of the tracks are unique to this […]
Psychotron Records celebrates another first with the concert at Lichfield Guildhall on July 18th 2017. Gordon Giltrap & Paul Ward took to the stage to celebrate the vinyl release of their album, ‘The Last of England’ – and what an amazing night it was. Over 120 people came to the concert: the first hour Gordon […]
The Holy Grail — Is it an Ozzy Osbourne acetate?? What a strange week this has been and all due to one record. Is this Ozzy Osbourne singing? Record dealers hunt for records in the hope that they will find something so rare and unusual – the Holy Grail moment if you like. Well Pete […]
Happy 1st Birthday Shop! Gordon Giltrap helps us to celebrate with an impromptu concert The Psychotron shop has almost been open for one full year – and what a great year it has been. Pete is a very happy shopkeeper, attracting people from all over the country to Sutton Coldfield Market Village. He loves to […]
NEW RELEASE We are very excited to announce a new project that is being pressed up at the moment – the latest album by the guitar legend that is GORDON GILTRAP. His first vinyl release in maybe 20 years and we can’t tell you how proud we are that he chose us to deliver this sublime […]
We have been a fan of JULY since first discovering their legendary 60’s album in the late 70’s. It is such fabulous music and embodies all that was good about the late 60’s Psychedelic movement. Many albums from that period had a couple of nice songs but every track on their debut LP was a classic. […]
Psychotron Records Store is attracting customers from all over Europe The ribbon was cut and the shop opened its doors. Danny Reddington enjoyed serving the first customers on the opening day and since then we have attracted customers from all over the West Midlands and beyond. Bob from Solihull is a regular, as is Kevin from Tipton. […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dub … Dub plates … Dubstep … What the Dub? [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] So, I asked Pete “what the dub” where did this genre come from? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We followed on from our previous conversation about folk music and this is basically what followed: Where and when did “Dub” start? The Dub music sound came to prominence in […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Pete has had a busy week buying records, buying more records, buying lots of records – big and small collections of records. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A couple of people popped in to the new shop in and sold him records over the counter. A dealer collector visited from Coventry and sold us eight collectible records, and Pete […]
The dry run is over and Psychotron Records Store is now officially open! Well, we will be on Saturday morning. Cakes are baking and ribbons tied ready for the official cutting by Danny Reddington. In the meantime, here is a fab article from the Birmingham Mail about the newest record shop in Birmingham. We […]
Psychotron Records is pleased to announce that Sutton has a record shop again. Danny Reddington cuts the ribbon to open Psychotron Records new store in the Sutton Coldfield Market Village, South Parade on 4th June. The shop buys and sells second hand records and original 60’s poster art. It is stocked with both collectible vinyl […]
Psychotron Records Shop opens its doors Pete’s dream of a Psychotron Records Shop becomes reality When Pete was a teenager saving his pocket money and early wages to buy vinyl from all the local shops, especially Reddingtons Rare Records in Birmingham it was just a pipe dream that one day he would have a shop […]
Announcing very limited Peter Scion release to celebrate our new shop Psychotron Records label releases 16 limited edition copies of Peter Scion on vinyl. We are pleased to be launching a new record, from another great Scandanavian musician. This very limited Peter Scion release is a work of passion, released to coincide with another passion, as Pete […]
Folk … Electric folk … Acid folk … What the folk? So, I asked Pete “what the folk” are all these genres about? We started with folk music and this is basically how the conversation went: Folk music probably originated from minstrels who used sing songs telling the news of the day in middle […]