Ep 50 Dave Harvey from Seabass Vinyl

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03/24/24 • 56 min

Seabass Vinyl is Scotland's first ever, and currently only, vinyl pressing plant. As vinyl is our favourite obsession there's no better subject for the half century of Blowtorch podcasts than Seabass co founder Dave Harvey.
Dave and his wife Dominique have setup a state of the art pressing plant 20km from Edinburgh which aims not only to deliver short vinyl runs to up and coming bands (and Taylor Swift if she asks nicely) but also be the most sustainable facility in the world.
We pressed our recently released Swedish Railway Orchestra album with Seabass and were delighted with the result. So here's our chat covering everything you wanted to know about vinyl production but were afraid to ask.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Seabass Vinyl website
Seabass Vinyl Instagram
Fish on a Friday podcast
Indicator Records
Stamper Discs
Barry Grint mastering
Calum Malcolm audio

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Ep 49 Kyle Thornton from Nerves

One away from the half century episode and we are chatting to Kyle Thornton, the frontman from Mayo/Galway trio, and contender for loudest band in Ireland, Nerves.
Fresh from a triumphant continental debut in Paris and with recent single Empty garnering rave reviews, Kyle is in fine form. He charts the band's trajectory, from meeting drummer Adam aged 12 to adding bass (and flute?) maestro Charlie in college to now being on the cusp of releasing their debut EP on vinyl. And being recognised as one of the most devastating live acts in the country.
With debut EP Glórach being released in March, 2024 is going to be Nerves' breakthrough year.
Links mentioned in the podcast
The Tracks Society Paris backstage podcast
CR's video vaults
Glórach vinyl pre order
Nerves on Instagram
Nerves on Spotify

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Ep 51 Rob Smith from Swedish Railway Orchestra

Here at Blowtorch Records we love a deep dive and episode 51 is devoted to the divine sounds of The Swedish Railway Orchestra's new album Once Upon A Time...
Rob Smith is the man behind the project and he is our guide as we go through the album track by track and hear the influences and inspirations behind the project as a whole and the tracks individually.
The vinyl album is available here
Tracks played are:
The Chelsea Hotel
Forever And A Day
You'll Never Take Me Alive
Obelisco
Once Upon A Time In Palestine
I Saw The City
People Will Let You Down
Motions Of The Tone
Circus