New shirts for Spring / Summer 2022!

Navy Gildan Softstyle t-shirts with a fresh new fruit salad colour mix print!

New shirts for Spring / Summer 2023!

We're willing the sun to shine with this neon orange Gildan Ultra t-shirts with a bright blue print!

New shirts for Spring / Summer 2023!

Another fresh new colour combo for the Summmer. This time we have bright pink on a sand coloured shirt. 

Baby pink print of the Piccadilly Records logo on a teal tote bag.

Gold print of the Piccadilly Records logo on a black tote bag.

Orange print of the Piccadilly Records logo on a burgundy tote bag.

Antique moss green beanie with multi coloured Piccadilly Records logo embroidered.

Heavyweight fair-trade cotton canvas bag with 12cm (4 1/2") gusset so it's plenty big enough and strong enough to hold a fair chunk of records and also doubles as a rather nice groceries bag.

Super cosy cable knit bobble hat with 'Suprafleece' band inside to keep your ears extra warm.

Features multicoloured Piccadilly Records embroidered logo.

This is a CD sampler which you get FREE when you buy any LP or CD from our Top 100 Albums, Top 20 Compilations or Top 20 Reissues/Collections charts.

Featuring tracks from albums in our Top 100, Compilations, and Reissues/Collections charts this was compiled by ourselves and Mark McQuillan and produced in conjunction with the lovely folks at ROM distribution. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Canyons: Akasha (begin Remix)
Taken From The Album: Jason Boardman & Moonboots Presents 25 Years Of Aficionado
2. Hania Rani: Hello
Taken From The Album: Ghosts
3. KonX: …Basic Ground Without Voice - Mehmet Aslan Edit
Taken From The Album: Mehmet Aslan
Presents Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia /
Switzerland 1980-1990
4. Das Koolies: Katal
Taken From The Album: DK.01
5. JOHN: Ridley Scott Walker
Taken From The Album: A Life Diagrammatic
6. Pale Blue Eyes: Spaces
Taken From The Album: This House
7. Hamish Hawk: Money
Taken From The Album: Angel Numbers
8. Ffa Coffi Pawb: Ffarout
Taken From The Album: Hei Vidal!
9. Echo Ladies: Overrated
(Robin Guthrie Version)
Taken From The Album: Waves Of Distortion (The Best Of Shoegaze 1990-2022)
10. JIM: Still River Flow (Edit)
Taken From The Album: Love Makes Magi
11. Anna B Savage: I Can Hear The Birds Now
Taken From The Album: In|FLUX
12. Teenage Fanclub: Foreign Land
Taken From The Album: Nothing Lasts Forever
13. Wild Nothing: Dial Tone
Taken From The Album: Hold
14. Mel Tourme: Sunshine Superman
Taken From The Album: Lounge Psychédélique (The Best Of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)
15. The Haunted: 1-2-5
Taken From The Album: Wig Out! Freak Out! (Freakbeat & Mod Psychedelia Floorfillers 1964-1969)
16. Mad Professor, Deborah Glasgow: My Thing
Taken From The Album: Ariwa Sounds: The Early Sessions
17. Greg Foat & Gigi Mason: Dolphin
Taken From The Album: Dolphin
18. Grand Union: Morning Brings The Light
Taken From The Album: Paul Hillery Presents Folk, Funk & Trippy Troubadours Vol. 2
19. Matthew Halsall: Mountains, Trees And Seas
Taken From The Album: An Ever Changing View
20. Chip Wickham: Space Walk
Taken From The EP: Love & Life

Canvas tote bag with internal valuables pocket. 

Holds 10-15 records.

Adjustable strap and twin handle design with press stud closure.

Made from 100% Cotton Canvas

Dimensions 30 x 40 x 60cm.

Canvas tote bag with internal valuables pocket. 

Holds 10-15 records.

Adjustable strap and twin handle design with press stud closure.

Made from 100% Cotton Canvas

Dimensions 30 x 40 x 60cm.

Super stylish roll top record bag.

Holds 10-15 records.

Padded laptop compartment. padded back and base.

Front zipped pocket.

Padded adjustable shoulder straps and sturdy grab handle.

Adjustable clasp closure.

Made from 100% Recycled 300D Polyester

Dimensions 40 x 38 x 14cm.

Super cosy cable knit bobble hat with 'Suprafleece' band inside to keep your ears extra warm.

Features multicoloured Piccadilly Records embroidered logo.

Super cosy cable knit bobble hat with 'Suprafleece' band inside to keep your ears extra warm.

Features multicoloured Piccadilly Records embroidered logo.

Recycled fisherman's beanie made from at least 50% recycled polyester. Recycled Polyester made from 100% rPET, equivalent to approx. 1.5 post-consumer bottles.
Ribbed knit with shallow engineered crown for maximum comfort.
Includes small embroidered Piccadilly Records logo on the turn up.

It’s not an easy feat nowadays to get a record pressed in time for the end of year when there’s so much good music coming out every week, but we’ve once again managed to collect a stylistically diverse, cohesively sequenced collection of our 2023 favourites onto vinyl for your cut-price record buying pleasure.

Opening up the collection, and responsible for me asking an embarrassing amount of times ‘who is this?’ is the soaring “Kisses” from Slowdive’s new offering, and our well-deserved album of the year, ‘everything is alive’. I couldn’t imagine a better follower than “Failsafe” from Catatonic Sun’s self-titled album, as it takes the spine-tingling heft of the former and slides a little into more psychedelic territory.

The Nabihah Iqbal album came out of leftfield for me, and once again the eponymous track here is my top cut on the album, providing the perfect segue into Beach Fossils’ “Don’t Fade Away”, which reinforces the lysergic drift we’ve established while adding a little more structure. Closing the side, both bar italia’s “Nurse” and John’s “Service Stationed” provide a move towards more dynamic, post-punk indebted minimalism, with bar italia’s thoughtful garage groove setting up perfectly for John’s undeniable blast of power.

Jungle keep bringing the goods, and there couldn’t have been any other choice than the funkiest cut on ‘Volcano’, the brilliant “Candle Flame”. This funky banger sets the perfect opener to the B-side, with the melodically pristine “Good Lies” from Welsh duo Overmono bringing us to the dancefloor before shop favourite Matthew Hallsall leads us to the chillout room with his keyboardy jazz odyssey “Mountains, Trees And Seas”.

There are few tracks that could close out a compilation more perfectly than JIM’s anxiolytic melody-rich “Phoenix”, J-Walk’s brilliant “Cool Bright Northern Morning” (from Aficionado’s essential retrospective compilation) or Jalen Ngonda’s swinging, soaring wonder “Come Around And Love Me”, and here you get them all in one stretch. You lucky people.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Good Ol' Picco Recs eh? Once again bringing you a lovely selection of some of our favourite tracks of the year, on vinyl, for a ruddy good price! What joy. Soak in that tracklist. Feel it.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Slowdive “Kisses”
Catatonic Suns “Failsafe”
Nabihah Iqbal “Dreamer”
Beach Fossils “Don’t Fade Away”
Bar Italia “Nurse!”
John “Service Stationed”
Side B:
Jungle Featuring Erick The Architect “Candle Flame”
Overmono “Good Lies”
Matthew Halsall “Mountains, Trees And Seas”
JIM “Phoenix”
J-Walk “Cool Bright Northern Morning”
Jalen Ngonda “Come Around And Love Me”

Super stylish roll top record bag.

Holds 10-15 records.

Padded laptop compartment. padded back and base.

Front zipped pocket.

Padded adjustable shoulder straps and sturdy grab handle.

Adjustable clasp closure.

Made from 100% Recycled 300D Polyester

Dimensions 40 x 38 x 14cm.

Recycled fisherman's beanie made from at least 50% recycled polyester. Recycled Polyester made from 100% rPET, equivalent to approx. 1.5 post-consumer bottles.
Ribbed knit with shallow engineered crown for maximum comfort.
Includes small embroidered Piccadilly Records logo on the turn up.

Back in the day (the late 90s!), confronted from October onwards by a raft of Christmas-related albums from the major labels, and barely a squeak of a release from the independents, we decided to compile our own top 50 albums of the year, and promote that over the festive season instead. 

Now, well over two decades on, the Piccadilly Records Top 100 has become one of THE essential end of year charts to check out. Our End Of Year Review booklets have also become increasingly sought-after, and now comes packed with our Top 100 albums, Top 20 compilations, Top 20 reissues/collections, Genre charts, book chart, staff charts and reviews of our favourite albums all wrapped in lush perfect bound artwork by Piccadilly pal Mark Brown (www.markbrownstudio.co.uk). 
The perfect read for any music lover over Crimbo.

This year sees another superb selection of EOY favourites committed to vinyl for your budget priced listening pleasure. I remember TVAM playing at the launch of our end of year booklet way back in 2018, and thinking they were destined for great things, turns out that “great things” was kicking off our end of year compilation in 2022! (and writing one of the best albums we’ve heard all year too, obviously). From the distorted kosmische groove of “Piz Buin”, we segue into the similarly machinated throb of “Ploys” by Working Men’s Club before things take a more relaxed turn with the off-kilter jangle of shop favourite Cate Le Bon from February’s Pompeii.

I have to admit I hadn’t listened to that much Kokoroko when we were selling all their 12’s last year, but Could We Be More was where it really clicked for me, and I’d consider the brilliant “We Give Thanks” as the finest cut from the whole album. I’m pretty sure there isn’t a track from Luke Unabomber’s top-spot compilation I wouldn’t be happy to see here, but to have King Errisson’s “Space Queen” and Pye Corner Audio’s “The Warmth Of The Sun” closing out the A-Side seems like the perfect shot / chaser.

We’ve got post-rock leaning arty indie from caroline in the intoxicatingly climactic “Dark Blue” before the beautifully melodic “Stevie” from Warpaint’s Radiate Like This moves us into more airy downbeat territories. Next up we’re pulled into even more psychedelic realms by Gwenno’s Superb “An Stevel Nowydh” before the masters of modern psychedelia The Orielles present one of the more jagged but most alluring cuts on their brilliant Tableau. King Hannah’s “All Being Fine” grooves away perfectly before handing over to the unbeatable Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band to bring us home with “Gino And Rico”. What a collection!

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
TVAM : Piz Buin
Working Men’s Club : Ploys
Cate Le Bon : Harbour
Kokoroko : We Give Thanks
King Errisson : Space Queen
Pye Corner Audio : Warmth Of The Sun (Edit)

SIDE B
Caroline : Dark Blue
Warpaint : Stevie
Gwenno : An Stevel Nowydh
The Orielles : Television
King Hannah : All Being Fine
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band : Gino And Rico

Antique burgundy beanie with multi coloured Piccadilly Records logo embroidered.

Antique mustard beanie with multi coloured Piccadilly Records logo embroidered.

Super stylish roll top record bag.

Holds 10-15 records.

Padded laptop compartment. padded back and base.

Front zipped pocket.

Padded adjustable shoulder straps and sturdy grab handle.

Adjustable clasp closure.

Made from 100% Recycled 300D Polyester

Dimensions 40 x 38 x 14cm.

Heavyweight fair-trade cotton canvas bag with 12cm (4 1/2") gusset so it's plenty big enough and strong enough to hold a fair chunk of records and also doubles as a rather nice groceries bag.

When we first moved to the Northern Quarter, we asked our friend and budding graphic designer Stan to design some flyers and t-shirts for us. Needless to say, he promptly legged it over from his 'office' in Night & Day with some ideas, and they went down a storm.

We've both come a long way since those heady days of the late '90's and to celebrate 25 years of us being here in the NQ, he's come up with an exclusive t-shirt, tote bag and art print for us.

We're only doing limited runs of all of these, so don't snooze on them!

This print is A3 size.

####Please note this will be shipped separately to other items in your order####

Look at this beauty!

Limited edition 25mm x 25mm hard enamel badge with butterfly fastening.

These rather lovely greetings cards feature Ben Lamb's amazing illustration of our shop front.

They're printed on recycled paper and blank inside, so you can add whatever message you like.

The Piccadilly Records mugs are back for 2023 and I'm sure we probably say this every year, but these are the best ones yet! Perfect for sipping a brew while listening to your favourite records.

As always these are limited, and once they're gone, they're gone!