RELICS EVENTS in MARCH 2021 !

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Irene Hundleby

VOR-STELLEN LIVE IN-STORE AT RELICS !

VOR-STELLEN are also playing several FRINGE gigs - check out the FRINGE PROGRAM

VOR-STELLEN are Brendan Moran and Stephen Reay...

Brendan Moran is an award winning musician (both b-net and NZ Music awards) and an experienced live performer and recording artist. He has performed both locally and internationally drumming in many different bands with a variety of styles including punk, metal, surf, country, folk-ish, free-noise / sound art, indy-alternative, krautrock and pop.

Brendan has released several records with Flying Nun (avoid!avoid, The Subliminals, The Hasselhoff Experiment) and was part of the original line up of Fly my Pretties. He has toured NZ numerous times and played many festivals (e.g. Big Day Out, The Others Way, Rippon) and has been present on the drum stool alongside international artists Damo Suzuki (from German avant-garde group CAN), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks) Eric Gaffney (ex- Sebadoh), Nathan Means (Trans Am) and Jorge Ledezma (Defender).

Brendan is also a visual artist and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia (University of the Arts Helsinki), and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching Visual Arts (Secondary level) from the University of Auckland. He is currently introducing his experience with drumming to his fine arts practice.

Stephen Reay is a guitarist and composer. He has performed as part of the Subliminals and Avoid!Avoid (Flying Nun Records) and the Haints of Dean Hall (Arch Hill Recordings). He uses guitars and amplifiers as way to create sonic textures that explore notions of everyday engagement with wellbeing, ecology, nature and human impacts on the environment.

Whilst Vor-stellen will be musically different to previous work Steve Reay and Brendan Moran have collaborated in, visually it will be developing ecological themes and video representative concepts they were looking at with their previous project, Avoid!Avoid.

ANTHONY RITCHIE - 'CHILDHOOD' ALBUM LAUNCH !

RELICS is pleased to present ANTHONY RITCHIE'S new album 'Childhood'

WHEN? Thu 25 March, 5.30pm

RSVP: info@relicsmusic.co.nz

The recording Symphony No.5 is subtitled ‘Childhood’

It is an optimistic work, using childhood as a metaphor for renewed hope for the future. With the current Covid pandemic engulfing the world, more than ever we need some sense of hope. It was written for The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, to celebrate the re-opening of the earthquake-stricken Christchurch Town Hall, and was recorded by The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra under conductor Ken Young in June 2020. The first public performance was by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra under Marc Taddei in September 2020, under level 2 restrictions with just 400 people in the Town Hall.

The symphony is divided into five movements with the subtitles: Beginnings, Play, Hopes and Dreams, Life-force, and A future, and features some child-like sounds of ratchets and pots and pans. The beautiful art work for the CD jacket is by Dunedin-based artist and childrens’ illustrator Robyn Belton.

Posted in Anthony Ritchie, CD launch, CD Release, relics events, Relics in store, Vor-Stellen

Lets celebrate NOVEMBER! It's Our 2nd Birthday!!

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

Lets celebrate NOVEMBER!

It's our birthday!!

Well it's hard to believe 2 years have flown by already!

Thank you to YOU all our wonderful loyal customers - you guys & gals ROCK !

So, there's heaps of things going on this month - and the live music scene in Dunedin is hotting up for summer - so here's a few of our calendar events to keep in mind for November ...

SAT 7 NOV - HOPETOUN BROWN is in town !

"By day they're the Supergroove horn section. By night they stalk the streets, their antique wind instruments shrieking wildly."

Get your groove on - these guys will have ya movin' and shakin' !!

Playing Dunedin at TASTE MERCHANTS in the evening on SAT 7 NOVEMBER...

and making some noise INSTORE with us from 2pm (a wee warm-up! )

Need tix to Taste Merchants? See us, see them, or check out tix at undertheradar.com here

You can find more info on HOPETOUN BROWN here ...

Also...

SAT 7 NOV - BRIAN JONESTOWN & THE CHILLS

We also have tix for this gig - and this tour coincides with the new CHILLS album which we will have instore on Fri 30 Oct!

FRI 13 NOV - It's our 2nd birthday !!

One of our fave days of the year and it's a black Friday - lets have cake :D

SAT 14 NOV - RECORD FAIR @ TASTE MERCHANTS !

Yes we'll be there - if you truly love records - you will too!

We'll have tons of $2 and $5 records for you to get your hands on.

WED 18 NOV - FLEETWOOD MAC - Woohoo PARTY

THUR 19 NOV - ANTHONY RITCHIE CD LAUNCH

We're having a little celebration with renowned Dunedin & NZ composer Anthony Ritchie.

Launching not one but 2 new CD albums 'Father & Son' and 'Fjärran'

Come join us!

You can RSVP by calling (03) 474 9394 or email: info@relicsmusic.co.nz

FRI 27 NOV - BLACK FRIDAY again

Who said you can't have 2 black fridays in one month ?!

We have heaps of special releases coming in for this ' excuse for a shop after Thanksgiving - the holiday we don't celebrate in NZ ' day.

In case you don't know... the day after Thanksgiving Day (the last Thursday of Nov) is a massive sale and shopping day in the United States. It is otherwise known as 'Black Friday' and a bunch of vinyl is specially released on this day.

We have ordered some. We have not ordered all. If you want to know if we have got it - feel free to give us a buzz or come in and visit.

SUN 29 & MON 30 NOV - SHELLAC

Long awaited - and finally almost here - way to finish November with a bang!

Thanks Chick's Hotel !

Posted in Anthony Ritchie, Black Friday, Brian Jonestown, CD Release, Fleetwood Mac, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday Relics, Hopetoun Brown, live music, Record Fair, Shellac, The Chills

TOP 10 CD ALBUMS ~ 2014

Posted on January 02, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

Here were our TOP 10 CD ALBUMS for 2014!!

Two of our top selling CDs were albums launched at Relics in 2014... thanks HEAPS for hanging out with them and us, and for showing these fab Dunedin / NZ musicians how much you love them !!

As with vinyl, we special ordered in a BIG number of CDs for RELICS customers, and it seems by the numbers of orders we took, that this is a service our customers particularly enjoy!! We will do our best to help you find more spectacular music wonders throughout 2015!

Again, it is really just AMAZING how many NZ musicians make our top selling 10 CD albums! Perhaps this has a little to do with us being an indie store, but aside from that, an incredible number of GREAT NZ albums were released this year over many different genres...

Here we go...