Domestic Shipping

Back after the Easter long weekend and we are busy processing orders and adding a few more classical records to the catalogue.

Just a reminder to Australian customers, our flat rate of $AUD7 still applies. Throughout Australia regardless of the quantity ordered P&H will be $AUD7. As always we accept Paypal, credit card or direct deposit.

Sometime ago we updated the about us page which includes a little about the history of The Record King Bookshop in Wollongong.

Back to Business

After a hectic few weeks clearing out 30 years of record shop, we are finally starting to get organised in our new role as ecommerce folk. We have a nice selection of LPs ready to catalogue on the website and after a number of years we are cautiously taking some auction lists back to Ebay.

Australian World Record Club LPs have always had some following among rock/pop music collectors - mostly for their unique and interesting cover art. The same cannot be said for the classical collectors market where traditionally WRC lps have largely been ignored. There have been a few exceptions, such as the stereo release of Michael Rabin's Mosaics. This week I have listed at auction an early WRC stereo release of Carl Schuricht conducting Bruckner No.8. Also on the website; Bernard Herrmann's Psycho, and Ginette Neveu playing Sibelius Violin Concerto both on WRC.

Wollongong Symphony Orchestra

Next concert by Wollongong Symphony Orchestra is Sunday April 5th at IPAC at 1 pm or 5pm. Features our favourite Mezzo; Lotte Latukefu and other local talent.

Open For Business

We have returned from our London sojourn - online ordering is fully operational. Several hundred LPs have been added in the past couple of weeks [Recently Added Vinyl].

UK Trip

We are still in the process of converting our shop space into a more efficient warehouse. Initially we will have the capacity to comfortably hold ten thousand books, ten thousand LPs, and ten thousand 45s. While we will essentially be an online store,  local customers who wish to save the on the $AUD7 p&h charge may have the option to pick up orders in person on Friday mornings. More on this later.

There will be some further disruption to service between February 25th and March 9th as Lotte and I head off to UK. Lotte will be presenting her paper 'Peer Learning and reflection: stories of vocal development in a tertiary setting'  at the The Reflective Conservatoire conference in London (Guildhall) . We then head to Walton on Thames for the bi-annual festival of microtonal music where Lotte will perform Warren Burt's 'Repetitive Rant for Peace'. I will be onhand to look after our 4 month old son, but I am sure there will be time to discover some of London's bookshops and recordstores!

My sincere apologies for this inconvenience. best regards

David

online shop expanding

This month The Record King Bookshop will close its shop front on Crown Street to make way for the expansion of our online catalogue. While we are looking forward to this new venture there is also some sadness as the shop has existed in Wollongong for more than 30 years.  Thank you to all our regular local customers who have supported the shop in recent times.

Keith, who many of you would know from the shop will be remaining with us and we also welcome Sean our new record specialist who will be looking after much of the vinyl inventory. We are currently in the midst of setting up the warehouse and relocating 10,000+ records from our current storage facility, however the website is fully operational and we will be processing orders in between our other tasks.

Holidays!

The Record King Bookshop online will continue to accept orders and enquiries throughout the holiday period, however there may be some slight disruption to service during this time.

Thank you to all customers for visiting us throughout the year. regards David.