Record Store Day 2020 postponed to June 20th

One of the events I had both planned on participating and taking part in was Record Store Day due to take place on April 20th. This is designed to support small independent record shops and bands with special and exclusive vinyl releases.

Obviously in the current crisis this is not possible and the organisers have issued the following Press Release postponing the event.

Lets all hope that if everyone follows instructions from the NHS that the crisis will pass sooner rather than later but I do think this will remain a provisional date.

13.3.20, 1pm: Record Store Day is a worldwide event involving thousands of people and small businesses—In our discussions over the last few weeks, as information came and changed daily, and then hourly, we’ve taken all of them into consideration as we go over various options: Stay the course. Move the date. Change the structure of the event. No one knows what things will look like in any given place in the next five weeks, and decisions for that time period need to be made now, using current facts.

There is no perfect solution. There is no easy answer. We’ve decided that the best of all possible moves is to change the date of Record Store Day this year to Saturday, June 20.

We think this gives stores around the world the best chance to have a profitable, successful Record Store Day, while taking into consideration the recommendations of doctors, scientists, the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and the need to be good citizens of both local and worldwide communities.

We’re working with all of our partners and our stores to make this change as smooth as possible for everyone who participates in Record Store Day: customers, record stores, artists, labels and more. Record Store Day is everywhere and we want to hold our party when everyone can gather around safely to celebrate life, art, music and the culture of the indie record store.

(And hey! Anything with the April 18, 2020 on it just became that much more special!)

Go to: recordstoreday.co.uk for further information