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Record Store Day 2012: What I Bought

Posted by Ming Wu on April 21, 2012 No comments

It was a cold and rainy day but didn’t stop people for Record Store Day 2012.
Surprised by the turnout when I got to Vertigo Records at 8:30am.
There was already people in line, I was around the 20th person.
Last year I was one of five people who got there at around that time.
I guess the buzz and hype surrounding Record Store Day is a good thing for the indie record shops.
I totally zoom by this year’s event.
Here is a list of what I bought.
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Record Store Day 2011: What I Bought

Posted by Ming Wu on April 16, 2011 6 comments

Happy Record Store Day!!
Hope those who went to every local record stores got what you wanted.
Like last year’s Record Store Day, my first stop was at Vertigo Records in Ottawa.
I got there and four people were already in line.
Then around 9:30am the line got longer and from what I heard it was like about 50 people were there.
It was a jungle when the Vertigo Records opened at 10am.
I rushed as fast as I can to get what I wanted to get.
Overall it was a mere 15 minutes in the store.
Here is a list of what I bought.
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Pop Montreal 2010: Day 1

Posted by Ming Wu on September 30, 2010 No comments

My first day/night of Pop Montreal.
During the day I went up to the Notman House and pick up my media pass.
Chilled out there for abit.
The musicians who I happened to see coming in or playing either Fooseball or Table-tennis and Nintendo were:
Cadence Weapon
Members of Silly Kissers
Holger
Little Scream
Stef from the Luyas
I went to see abit of the Feist docu-film called Look At What The Light Did Now at the Ukrainian Federation.
It was a great look at what makes Feist so musically creative during her live shows and making of the enormous success of “The Reminder”.
Who knew she did 27 takes for the song “The Water”.

After that I headed of to Casa del Popolo.
I got there when Lost in the Trees was playing.
The room was packed.
They were so amazing, they reminded me of Great Lake Swimmers.
Hopefully I can catch during the BBQ day show at the Notman House.

After them it was Villagers (aka Conor J. O’Brien).
It was a solo set.
He was truly brilliant with just him and a guitar.
It was so quiet that you can hear clicking from the other photographers present.
Overall a great set at Casa del Popolo.

This ends my first night of Pop Montreal.
Here are the photos