People Play Vinyl

People Play Vinyl Vinyl night 2nd Wednesday of the month at The Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Bring your vinyl

10/06/2025

No vinyl night this month as the Shrewsbury Arms is closed for refurbs. Instead we are meeting in the Pickled Pig for a PPV social evening tomorrow

February’s tune list
15/02/2025

February’s tune list

16/09/2024

No vinyl night this Wednesday

We are celebrating! In 2014 Peter McLuskie and Tim Rogers decided to start a vinyl night. It began on a Monday night at ...
12/08/2024

We are celebrating! In 2014 Peter McLuskie and Tim Rogers decided to start a vinyl night. It began on a Monday night at the Rose and Crown. People Play Vinyl was born! Ten years and four pubs later PPV is still going strong at its latest home, The Shrewsbury Arms. To celebrate, we are having a party style PPV and inviting everyone, especially those who have come and gone over the years. Bring your vinyl or just bring yourself for a fun, music filled night. Save the date, 7th September and look out for the official invite

29/04/2024

This month the theme was weather and we played these tunes at The Shrewsbury Arms:
Magazine: Perfmafrost
Johnny Nash: I can see clearly now
Eruption: I can't stand the rain
Carol King: Might as well rain until September
Japan: Don't rain on my parade
Grace Jones: Walking in the rain
Quasi: Under a cloud
SLF: Silver lining
Leila Moss: Here comes the rain
John Foxx: Tidal wave
Weather Prophets: Well done sunny
The Undertones: Here comes the summer
Julian Cope: Summer sunspots
Rain Parade: Broken horse
Johnny Cash: 3ft high and rising
Billy Nicholls: White lightening
Rolling Stones: Gimme shelter
Pixies: Stormy weather
Gnod: Red skies
Glen Campbell: Witchita linesman
Wonk Unit: Hot day you know it
S*x Pistols: Holidays in the sun
Simple Minds: Book of brilliant things
Jane Weaver: Perfect storm
Earthquake: Friday on my mind

13/10/2023

Last month's theme was tyranny and we played these records
Weaves: Mo********er
Japan: Communist China
Hey Colossus: My Name is Blood
John Kongos: He's Gonna Step on You Again
Traams: A and B
The Pop Group: Forces of Oppression
David Peel and the Lower East Side: Up Against the Wall
Our Girl: I Wish it Was Sunday
Jellyskin: Lift (Come in)
PIL: Four Enclosed Walls
Au Pairs: S*x without stress
Bronx: White Shadow
Killdozer: Enemy of the People
Telex: Moscow Discow
Rezillos: Cold Wars
Pe*******on: Don't Dictate
Eagulls: My Life in Rewind
Scars: Horrorshow
Ike and Tina Turner: Proud Mary
The Sound: Brute Force
Mandy Indiana: Drag

13/09/2023

Last month's theme was travel and this is what we played:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Fire Walker
Kurt Vile: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
The Cure: The Walk
Kraftwerk: Trans Europa Express
Velvet Underground: Run, Run, Run
Human League: Black Hit of Space
Zodiac Mindwarp: Prime Mover
Thelonious Monk: April in Paris
Simple Minds: I Travel
Tom Robinson: 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Pip Blom: Tinfoil
Black Country New Road: Instrumental
Afghan Wigs: True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
Tom Waits: Shore Leave
Autobahn: Post History
Cocteau Twins: Aikea-Guinea
Tom Petty: Route 66
The Clash: Brand New Cadilac
Bow, Wow, Wow: See Jungle (Jungle Boy)
The Jam: All Around the World
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry: Talk About the Weather
The Unit Ama: Sycamore

11/07/2023

Last month our theme was Fathers and we played these records:
Echo and the Bunnymen: Gods will be Gods
The Riverboat Gamblers: Father Christmas
Mia Martini: Padre Davvero
CLT DRP: Like Father
Kristeen Young: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Father
Johnny Thunders: Daddy Rolling Stone
Weekend Dads: Podium
Can: Father Can't Yell
Traams: Sister
Gang of Four: Ether
Make do and Mend: Father
Pavement: Father to a Sister of Thought
Weaves: Mo********er
Fleetwood Mac: Oh Daddy
Drug Church: Ghost Dad
Gnod: Real Man
Sheila B Devotion: Mayday
Ian Drury and the Blockheads: My Old Man
Gene Loves Jezebel: Upstairs
George Michael: Father Figure

11/06/2023

In May, we were digging out vinyl with a saintly theme. This is what we came up with:
Wolfgang Press: Bless my Brother
Van Morrison: St Dominic's Preview
The Saints: Demolition GIrl
Stuck Out Here: Saint & Sinners Wine
Stuck Out Here: Robin Tunney
The Smiths: Big Mouth Strikes Again
Wall of Voodoo: Ring of Fire
Bruce Springsteen: It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
George McCrae: You Got My Heart
Band of Susans: No God
L7: Andres
Joan Jett: I Love Rock and Roll
The Skids: The Saints are Coming
Play Dead: Isabel
Eagulls: Psalms
Johnny and the Self Abusers: Saints and Sinners
The Sewer Cats: Delia
Vic Godard: Stool Pigeon
The Saints: Perfect Day
Pretty Boy Thorson and the Fallen Angels: Amy Lee
David Werner: Aggravation non stop
Southern Death Cult: Crypt
Paul Simon: Rhythm of the Saints
The Pixies: Down to the Well

28/05/2023

Way back in March, the theme was buildings and we played these records:
Cowtown: Castle Greyscale
Olivia Tremor Control: The Opera House
Atom Age: Walk Through Walls
Lantern of the Lakes: Baddies
Akiko Yano: Garden Shed
The Fall: Tempo House
The Sewer Cats: What Will it Take
Solids: Terminal
The Catheters: The Door Shuts Quickly
Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams: White Room
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Happy House
Aerial Salad: Virtue (Dirt Mall)
Go Kart Mozart: Mrs Back to Front and the Bull Ring Thing
Buffalo Tom: Treehouse
The Bell Tower: My Church
The Fatback Band: (Are you ready) to do the bus stop?
Vue: Falling Through a Window Pane and the People on the Stairs

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