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Record Store Day is upon us and Flying Nun Records have very exciting events happening with plenty of exclusive RSD titles, live performances, sales + hidden treasures to celebrate the day across our stores. Plus, there is exciting news that Flying Nun Records is coming home to Ōtautahi/Christchurch! This new store will be having a special Record Store Day pop-up on the 20th and the 21st, with its grand opening looming on May 31st.

RECORD STORE DAY 2024
3 EVENTS ACROSS 3 CITIES

📍 Flying Nun Records – Karangahape Road, Auckland
Open 10.00AM – 5.30PM
Live Music from 12pm, featuring Awning, Womb, Dick Move, Green Grove and Mammalien

📍 Flying Nun Records – Cuba Street, Wellington
(in collaboration with Slow Boat Records)
Open 9.00AM – 5.00PM
Live Music from 1pm, featuring Cruelly, Erny Belle, Bleeding Star and Living Clipboards

📍 Flying Nun Records Pop Up Store – The Terrace Arcade, Christchurch
Open 10.00AM – 6.00PM
Live Music from 2pm, featuring Adam Hattaway, Moider Mother and Jay Clarkson & the Containers

ŌTAUTAHI / CHRISTCHURCH
Saturday April 20th + Sunday April 21st — 10am to 6pm.
Flying Nun Records at The Terrace Arcade, Christchurch (near Scorpio Books)
Flying Nun Records is coming home to Christchurch!
First up — on April 20th come to our Record Store Day Pop-Up featuring live performances from Adam Hattaway and the Haunters, Jay Clarkson and the Containers, and Moider Mother! We’ll have Flying Nun Records & Merch Galore, RSD Titles, Japanese 45’s, Special Offers, Releases from Albert’s Basement & Leather Jacket Records, and even the elusive TV EYE / Say Yes To Apes back catalogue!

This is a pre fit-out pop up open for 2 days only — April 20th + 21st, 10am to 6pm. Then we’ll welcome you back for our proper Grand Opening May 31st once the shop fit-out is complete!

2PM — Adam Hattaway and the Haunters
3PM — Jay Clarkson and the Containers
5PM — Moider Mother

TĀMAKI MAKAURAU / AUCKLAND
Saturday 20 April — 10am – 5:30 pm (with music from 12pm)
202 Karangahape Road, Auckland
Join us at our Tāmaki Makaurau store in the heart of Karangahape Road for a day packed full of live music, special merch sales, secondhand vinyl and more hidden treasures. We’ll be joined by a fantastic lineup of local favourites — Awning, Green Grove, Mammalien, Dick Move and Womb — playing in our basement from 12pm.

Awning — Awning began as a home recording project by Tāmaki Makaurau based musician Christian Dimick. In the last few years the project has evolved with friends joining the line up and contributing to the song writing process. The group has recently released ‘Gold Star EP’ a collection of 3 songs that bounces between emotive indie, folk and shoegaze.

Green Grove — Green Grove is the musical project of Durham Fenwick. Serving as a vessel for musical/creative exploration, the nature of Green Grove’s sound remains transient, with recurring nods to library, ambient and lounge music.

Mammalian — Psychedelic, folk-tinged and fluid, Mammalien makes music for people who like music, and want to spend the little time we have left together listening to it. Backed by world class band The Fammalien, you’re sure to be delighted and surprised in equal measure.

Womb — Womb is siblings Cello, Haz, and Georgette. They are all cancer risings.

Dick Move — Dick Move spit out short sharp hot takes that call to the increasingly messed up world around them. Notorious already for their pumping live shows, Dick Move’s catalogue of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it punk anthems are cutting, confronting, empowering and dripping with brash cheekiness and political angst.

Set times TBA

TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA / WELLINGTON
Saturday 20 April — 9am – 5:00 pm (with music from 1pm)
173 Cuba Street (Flying Nun) & 183 Cuba Street (Slowboat), Wellington
Flying Nun Records in Wellington is teaming up with our neighbours Slowboat Records to bring you a joint Record Store Day, with exclusive releases, sales and live in-store performances from Living Clipboard (Flying Nun), Bleeding Star (Slowboat), Cruelly (Flying Nun) and Erny Belle (Slowboat).
Flying Nun; 1pm – Living Clipboards – featuring Marineville’s Mark Williams, along with Ghost Club’s Denise Roughan and Jim Abbot – their “All Over Tawa” album is released on the day!

Slow Boat; 2pm – Bleeding Star – fresh from the previous weekend’s Otisfest event at San Fran, the excellent Poneke/ Wellington indie guitar band will present their songs in a stripped back, largely acoustic fashion.

Flying Nun; 3pm – Cruelly – grungy, punky, shoegazy? Who can say – what it is is life affirming, melodic noise from this young Wellington band – come check it out!

Slow Boat; 4pm – Erny Belle (duo) – after the success of her superb second album (on the Flying Nun label), the Tamaki Makaurau/ Auckland based singer songwriter will perform in a duo setting – can’t wait!

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