For our OF Sounds playlists, we usually invite customers from the world of music to curate a playlist from our collection of vinyls and CDs at Golborne Road. This summer, we thought we’d go back to where it all began.
Long before those records became part of the shop, the collection belonged to David Rutherford-Jones - Co Founder George’s Dad - who built it one record at a time from the early 1970s. So, who better to curate our Summer Sounds playlist? David came to Golborne Road to thumb through old favourites, piecing together a playlist for slow summer afternoons.
What is your first memory of music?
Listening to records and LPs, in my sister Caroline’s bedroom, from about 1967 onwards. Simon & Garfunkel were our favourite. Later, in 1973, I started adding my own records. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon and David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars were my first albums. I bought both records in Richard Branson’s new and iconic Virgin Records store in Brighton, just down the road from my school, Lancing College. A great Sunday outing after chapel!
What role does music play in your life today?
Huge. I have five playlists. With their vast array of musical genres you’d be pushed to know who the author is! I love music more than TV or film, and I listen to it a lot these days while drawing and painting.
What's the best live performances you have seen?
Queen and The Who in Dortmund, the Bee Gees in Berlin, Tina Turner in Hanover, Pink Floyd at Earl’s Court (Comfortably Numb is up there among my favourite pieces of rock music), the Rolling Stones at Glastonbury in 2013, and Coldplay at Wembley. I saw most of those bands with my wife, Sarah.
Which artist is at the top of your bucket list to see live?
Difficult to answer - there are so many. Olivia Dean, London Grammar, The Boxer Rebellion, Stereophonics, Jungle, Van Morrison… to name just a few of many. The music emerging today seems to me to be as good as it was in the 1970s and 80s.
