Revolving Grooves: Vinyl Culture Symposium - 18 April, Liverpool Hope University
Manoli Moriaty
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Revolving Grooves: Vinyl Culture Symposium
Revolving Grooves is a one-day symposium exploring the cultural and material life of vinyl records, taking place on Record Store Day at Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus.
At a time when vinyl culture is experiencing renewed public visibility, the symposium creates space for discussion around the place of physical music formats within a landscape shaped by streaming platforms and digital technologies. Rather than focusing on celebration alone, the event invites reflection on how vinyl continues to function across contemporary musical and cultural contexts.
Bringing together DJs, record shop owners, collectors, sound system operators and researchers from across Liverpool, Revolving Grooves foregrounds practitioner experience alongside academic reflection, situating local perspectives within wider questions of performance, circulation and materiality.
Through presentations, roundtable conversations and performances, the symposium explores vinyl as a performance medium, cultural infrastructure and living archive.
The event is presented by Liverpool Hope University and kindly supported by the Dancecult Research Network, Society for Music Production Research, Decks in the City, Svara Radio and Equity Hi-Fi.
Venue
Cornerstone Theatre
Creative Campus
Liverpool Hope University
L6 1HP
Schedule
10:00–11:00 – Welcome and registration
11:00–17:00 – Talks and discussion
21:00–23:00 – Evening performances powered by the Equity Hi-Fi sound system
Tickets
Free entry, registration required (limited to 50 attendees).
Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolving-grooves-vinyl-culture-symposium-tickets-1984001973310
Contributors
Speakers
Kerri Ankrah-Lucas — Decks in the City
Maxime Ansell — Equity Hi-Fi
Bryan Biggs — Bluecoat
Alastair Clark — Dead Funny Comedy
Jess Fairclough — Dead Air Records
Nina Kehagia — shesaid.so / University of Liverpool
Jacques Malchance — Upitup Records
Manoli Moriaty — Liverpool Hope University
Yvonne Page — Dig Vinyl
Veronica Skrimsjö — Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Tom Wilson — Arts Bar
James Young — Svara Radio
Andrew Leslie Hooker
Equity Hi-Fi
Jacques Malchance