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Jacaranda Records
53°24′09″N 2°58′47″W / 53.4024°N 2.9796°W
Jacaranda Records is a Liverpool-based independent record store and live music venue operator founded in 2015 by Graham Stanley.
Headquartered at the historic Jacaranda Club on Slater Street, the 1958 venue associated with launching The Beatles on their early careers, the company currently operates across two locations including The Jacaranda in the Liverpool city centre and Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle.
Originally established during the 2010s vinyl revival, the company is known for its hybrid operation of live music and music retail across both its venues, as well as its former enterprises in spatial audio technology as part of a record label of the same name. Jacaranda Records has also been involved in several grassroots initiatives with local Liverpool businesses and educational institutions, seeking to forge a link between Liverpool’s music heritage and the cities' emerging talent.
Founded by Graham Stanley who took over as managing director in 2014 amidst the 2010s vinyl revival boom, the store opened on 29th June 2015 on the first floor of the Jacaranda's Slater Street venue following a six month period of refurbishment. Historically the same space was previously occupied in the 1950s by jazz record store Syd’s Disk Den.
The store adopted several unusual retail features, taking key inspiration from Jack White's Third Man Records. Like Third Man, Jacaranda featured a working 1948 Mutoscope Voice-o-Graph machine which allowed customers to record approximately three minutes of audio, later to be cut and pressed in store. In a 2015 interview with Stanley and then booking manager Joe Maryanji, plans were made to extend the machine's capabilities to record live shows in The Jacaranda's basement performance space. In 2022 Jacaranda produced a series of videos showcasing touring musicians utilising the Voice-o-Graph, inaugurating the series with a performance from Frank Turner.
Jacaranda's first period of expansion began with the opening of Phase One in May 2018, launching on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. An evolution of the original Jacaranda Records concept fusing a record store with a bar and live music, the Seel Street venue consisted of 4 dedicated listening booths, a collection of 10,000 vinyl records, and a 400–500 capacity live performance space.
In 2018 British music producer Ray Mia approached Stanley in collaborating to form a record label with plans announced in November to open a record pressing plant and recording studio under the collective Jacaranda Records name. Three months later construction began on the company's first immersive audio facility. Under the direction of Mia as Jacaranda's self-described "Capomaestro", a Sicilian term meaning work foreman or supervisor, in its first year the label signed several emerging Merseyside bands including The Bohos and Spilt as well as opening Liverpool's first purpose built 3D immersive audio recording facility Jacaranda Studios in October 2019.
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Jacaranda Records
53°24′09″N 2°58′47″W / 53.4024°N 2.9796°W
Jacaranda Records is a Liverpool-based independent record store and live music venue operator founded in 2015 by Graham Stanley.
Headquartered at the historic Jacaranda Club on Slater Street, the 1958 venue associated with launching The Beatles on their early careers, the company currently operates across two locations including The Jacaranda in the Liverpool city centre and Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle.
Originally established during the 2010s vinyl revival, the company is known for its hybrid operation of live music and music retail across both its venues, as well as its former enterprises in spatial audio technology as part of a record label of the same name. Jacaranda Records has also been involved in several grassroots initiatives with local Liverpool businesses and educational institutions, seeking to forge a link between Liverpool’s music heritage and the cities' emerging talent.
Founded by Graham Stanley who took over as managing director in 2014 amidst the 2010s vinyl revival boom, the store opened on 29th June 2015 on the first floor of the Jacaranda's Slater Street venue following a six month period of refurbishment. Historically the same space was previously occupied in the 1950s by jazz record store Syd’s Disk Den.
The store adopted several unusual retail features, taking key inspiration from Jack White's Third Man Records. Like Third Man, Jacaranda featured a working 1948 Mutoscope Voice-o-Graph machine which allowed customers to record approximately three minutes of audio, later to be cut and pressed in store. In a 2015 interview with Stanley and then booking manager Joe Maryanji, plans were made to extend the machine's capabilities to record live shows in The Jacaranda's basement performance space. In 2022 Jacaranda produced a series of videos showcasing touring musicians utilising the Voice-o-Graph, inaugurating the series with a performance from Frank Turner.
Jacaranda's first period of expansion began with the opening of Phase One in May 2018, launching on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. An evolution of the original Jacaranda Records concept fusing a record store with a bar and live music, the Seel Street venue consisted of 4 dedicated listening booths, a collection of 10,000 vinyl records, and a 400–500 capacity live performance space.
In 2018 British music producer Ray Mia approached Stanley in collaborating to form a record label with plans announced in November to open a record pressing plant and recording studio under the collective Jacaranda Records name. Three months later construction began on the company's first immersive audio facility. Under the direction of Mia as Jacaranda's self-described "Capomaestro", a Sicilian term meaning work foreman or supervisor, in its first year the label signed several emerging Merseyside bands including The Bohos and Spilt as well as opening Liverpool's first purpose built 3D immersive audio recording facility Jacaranda Studios in October 2019.