Hermitage Green, Fang Club and more set for Golden Discs on Record Store Day

Golden Discs, the biggest and longest running record store chain in Ireland, celebrates Record Store Day this Saturday, April 16, with live performances in ten stores nationwide.

Record Store Day celebrates the unique culture of independently owned record shops and has become one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar. To mark the occasion Golden Discs will have live performances and great reductions on the day.

The performances nationwide are:

· Patrick St, Cork: Marlene Enright, Colm Fitzpatrick, Wasp vs Humans, Slow Motion Heroes, Lynda Cullen

· Stephen’s Green, Dublin: Hermitage Green

· Swords: Fangclub, Gary Gamble

· Blanchardstown: Danny C

· Newbridge: Peter Doran, Vagabonds & Thieves, DJ performances

· Dun Laoghaire: Callum Orr, Niall Cash, Gary O’Neill, Rebecca Cramer, The Dun Laoghaire Ukuhooligans

· Mahon: Raising Jupiter, Daniel Anderson

· Athlone: Macey South, Sean McKenna

· Waterford: DJ Performance

· Clonmel: DJ performance

Golden Discs have revealed some interesting info about their sales over the last year with homegrown talent Hozier nabbing the top spot for best selling Irish artist on vinyl. Check out the stats below.

Top 5 best selling Irish Artists on Vinyl in Golden Discs for the past year are:

1. Hozier/Hozier
2. Thin Lizzy/Live and Dangerous
3. Kodaline/In A Perfect World
4. Everything This Way/Walking On Cars
5. Kodaline/Coming Up For Air

Top 10 best selling vinyl in Golden Discs for the past year are:

1. Nirvana/Unplugged
2. David Bowie/Black Star
3. Amy Winehouse/Back To Black
4. Hozier/Hozier
5. Stone Roses/Stone Roses
6. The Beatles/Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Adele/25
8. The Eagles/Hotel California
9. Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
10. The Beatles/Abbey Road