#brit trust

[louisupdates]

A lucky collector will be able to purchase one of Louis’ white label vinyls through auction to benefit the Brit Trust. [Article]

The White Label Auction in Aid of The BRIT Trust – the world’s only known auction of “white label” test pressings – takes place next week on Tuesday, 6th June 2023. This year it will have more than 200 lots of highly collectible ‘white-label’ test pressings – the most offered in the four editions of the auction to date since it began in 2019.

The online/on-site auction is once again being hosted by music memorabilia and vinyl records specialists Omega Auctions from their Newton-Le-Willows (Greater Manchester) base. The full catalogue can be accessed here.

Fans and collectors can bid from a huge selection of white label test pressings that rarely come to market, with some even signed by the artists such as The Cure, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, New Order, and Wilko Johnson.

The UK’s record labels led by Universal Music UK, who founded the event with the BPI, along with BMG, Domino Recordings, Cherry Red, Sony Music Entertainment UK, Warner Records and others, each year join forces to curate a broad selection of white label auction lots to raise funds for the vital work of music industry charity The BRIT Trust – which promotes education and wellbeing through music and the creative arts to support causes that include the BRIT School and Nordoff and Robbins.

In January the BPI reported that vinyl albums had recorded a 15th year of consecutive growth in the UK, with over 5.5m LPs purchased in 2022. This rising demand for vinyl has in turn resulted in a growing archive of white label test pressings – so called because there is no sleeve artwork at this early stage – which record labels produce ahead of the full release of an album to ensure its audio quality. With only a handful produced, these first-off-the-press copies are snapped up by collectors on the rare occasions they become available, as evidenced by the huge interest in the three White Labels Auctions to date, which between them have raised around £100,000.

White label test pressings by the following artists:

Arcade Fire / Beth Gibbons, Portishead / Black Grape / Blind Faith / Blossoms / Brian Eno / Bryan Ferry / Budgie / Buzzcocks / Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa / Calvin Harris, Katy Perry & Pharrell Williams / Calvin Harris & Sam Smith / Camel / Caravan / Celeste / The Charlatans / Chemical Brothers / Christy Moore / Corinne Bailey-Rae / Cream / The Cure / Daryl Hall & John Oates / Deep Purple / Derek and The Dominoes / Dexy’s Midnight Runners / Diana Ross / Dio / Dirty Pretty Things / Donovan / Doves / Duffy / Dusty Springfield / Ed Sheeran / Emeli Sandé / Eric Carmen / Eric Clapton / The Ethiopians / Eurythmics / The Fall / Fairport Convention / Frankie Goes To Hollywood / ightened Rabbit / Gary Moore / Gaz Coombes / Genesis / George Ezra / Graham Parker / Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / Gregory Isaacs / Helloween / Inspiral Carpets / Iggy Pop / J Hus / Jacob Collier / Jake Bugg / The Jam / Jamie T / Joe Cocker / John Martyn / John Martyn & Beverley Martyn / John Mayall / Joni Mitchell / Julian Cope / Justin Hayward and John Lodge / Karl Hyde / Kate Nash / Katie J Pearson / Kelis / Kid Creole / Kings of Convenience / Koffee / The LA’s / Laura Marling / Level 42 / Led Zeppelin / Lindisfarne / Linton Kwesi-Johnson / Louis Tomlinson / Ludovico Einaudi / The Lumineers / McAlmont & Butler / Madness / Manic Street Preachers / Marianne Faithfull / Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus / Mark Knopfler / Meat Loaf / Melt Yourself Down / The Members / The Mighty Diamonds / Mike and The Mechanics / Mike Oldfield / MJ Cole Moby / Monty Python / The Moody Blues / Motorhead / Mott The Hoople / Nathaniel Rateliff / Nazareth / Neneh Cherry / New Order / Nicholas Briteli / Noah and The Whale / Nothing But Thieves / Nova Twins / Orchestra Manouevres in the Dark / Pale Fountains / Paloma Faith / Paul Weller/ Penguin Café Orchestra / Pete Townshend / Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane/ PiL / Pulp / Quincy Jones / Rag ‘n’ Bone Man / Rainbow / Rhys Lewis / Richard & Linda Thompson / Rick Wakeman / Rizzle Kicks / Robbie Williams / Robyn / Roger Waters / Ronnie James / Rory Gallagher / The Ruts / Sam Cooke / Sandie Shaw / Sandie Shaw & The Smiths / Sandy Denny / Scissor Sisters / The Scorpions / Scott Walker / Selecta’s Choice Series / Sex Pistols / Shed Seven / The Silvertones / Simple Minds / The Skatalites / Sparks / The Slits / Soul II Soul / The Specials / The Spice Girls / Squeeze / Status Quo / Stereophonics / Steve Winwood / The Stone Roses / Supertramp / T-Rex / Tame Impala / Tangerine Dream / Teardrop Explodes / Tears For Fears / The Teskey Brothers / Therapy? / Thin Lizzy / Tom Speight / Travis / UB40 / The Undertones / Underworld / UNKLE / The Vaccines / The Vamps / Van Morrison / Various: Blue Note / Various Folk / Various Dance - John Morales and others / Various – Little Big Lies / Various – NOW Yearbooks 1980 - 1985 / Various – The Wanderer / Various – Soul / Various – Sound of the Suburbs / The Verve / The Wedding Present / The Who / Wilko Johnson / You Me At Six

See here for full Omega Auctions catalogue list of featured titles.

#brit trust #white label vinyl auction #louis tomlinson #1.6.2023

[sunshineandlyrics]

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#auction #what a cool piece of memorabilia #there may be more because I stopped looking around page 5 #official charts #white label auction #Brit rudest #brit trust #Louis Tomlinson #Louis charity #5 June 2023 #just hold on #Walls #vinyls #mine

[pinkeoni]

I’m putting a lot of faith into Noah Schnapp being able to convincingly smoke a cigarette…

#i dont know that boys life. but i have a good feeling he has never touched a cig #and now im trusting him to be able to smoke one the same way a homosexual in small town eighties who listens to brit rock would #i think he can do it. i have faith in him #and i know tv smoking isnt real anyways #but he needs to make it look convincing #shit post #smoker will #tw smoking #will byers #byler #<- target audience

[larrylimericks]

11Feb23

At the BRITs, Harry slayed and he swept, Cuddled Tucci, gave Lewis a peck, (Some shots were imbibed) Proud sis by his side, When he thanked OT5, how we wept!

#larry #harry #harry styles #brits #2023 brits #harry swept the brits! #he won for all four categories in which he was nominated #best pop/r&b #song of the year for as it was #artist of the year #album of the year for harry's house #he was effervescent tonight #perhaps due in part to some shots #but there was a lovely lightheartedness to the affair #whereas the grammys seemed to weigh heavy on him #gemma accompanied him tonight #and the interactions between them are so pure #and a clear reminder of how harry interacts with people he loves and trusts #he was flirty/cuddly/kissy with lewis capaldi and stanley tucci #how have i gotten this far into the tags without crying about the fact that: #he thanked niall louis liam and zayn by name! #fuck it was a good night #limerick-hs #february 11 #2023

[russellwynn]

i love peter and lindsey’s relationship no matter the interpretation no matter the dynamic i love them. it’s for fucking shame we couldn’t see more of them together after 4 — the fact that they are BOTH driven to their own demises fueled by the grief of losing each other. they love each other so much forever

#like platonic mentor/mentee romantic i don’t CARE they love each other it’s all so good #my favourite thing about saw is how 90% of deaths are fueled by love and grief #which is beautifully subverted at the end of saw v with brit and mallick who develop a deep trust with one another #and that trust is what makes them survive

[allamericanb-tch]

taylor swift wrote all the young dudes, no one believed it was really her, and then she wrote the great war to prove them wrong. 

#i’m not saying taylor swift did absolutely 100% for sure write atyd #but i do think it’s very possible #especially considering that when atyd was published she was in her era of hiding from the media and from everyone #and before you say “taylor swift doesn’t know enough british slang to have written atyd” #have we forgotten joe?? her LONDON boy?? she literally lived with a brit #i’m sure he would’ve been more than happy to help her out with some words #after all #he loved her #and not to mention #taylor swift was born in 1989 #mskingbean89 #has a birthday on september 4 #9+4=13 #13 is taylor swifts lucky number #in case you forgot #or didn’t know #and we know taylor has the ability to write fast while also writing well #as proven by folklore and evermore #she was betrayed by one of her best friends #and someone she trusted sold her music #her life’s work #to someone she hated #she definitely would have understood the feelings of loneliness and betrayal remus experiences after lily and james’ death #we know that writers like to explore their own feelings and traumas in their works #in chapter 175 (when remus is dealing with his friends’ betrayal) mskingbean89 says that she wrote it immediately after chapter 1 #she was definitely eager to get to the part where she could get really into her feelings #and need i mention cardigan? #so yeah #im not saying taylor swift wrote it but she very well could have

[fiveht]

Love, love, love Adore and am drooling over Head Over Feet!!

You mentioned a couple asks ago that you haven’t specified it’s in the US, and that made me very curious as to where they do live??

The way you’ve phrased east and west coast and mentioned eastern time (NA) makes me wonder (aka hope) that maybe, if not the US, they’re in Canada?!?! As a Canadian girlie I love some representation for us - so I just had to ask!!

They indeed are Canadian. 😁 They don't live in Quebec, but they're close! They live in Ottawa. For those unaware, Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec are directly across the Ottawa River from one another, and Hull is a historic neighbourhood in Gatineau. (By the way, the university in the story is Carleton.)

I'm a Canadian girlie myself, and when I started Disarm I thought, if American writers make them American in AUs, why can't I make them Canadian? So I did. I'm not from Ottawa (I'm from Newfoundland, which is way too distinct a setting, because we fucking weird over here) but I did spend a lot of summers there as a kid.

#asked and answered #remus and rieka are from vancouver #sirius' family is from quebec #his parents are the worst kind of ultra conservative french catholics #and very involved in fringe right wing politics #hence living in ottawa #fun fact: drinking age in ontario is 19 but in quebec it's 18 #so sirius wasn't even being a delinquent when he drank the wine at dinner! #i was afraid i would confuse the brits with the hull reference #trust me the quebec one is nicer

[siren-soldier]

I fucking knew Julian was in on it

#911 abc #911 season 7 #911 spoilers #athena grant #bobby nash #I never trust the Aussie/brit characters in American Tv #you can’t ever trust them I swear

[sinni-ok-sessi]

god, I've made two soup recipes from this cookbook so far and both times, like a fool, I've thought 'oh yeah, putting an apple into a savoury soup's pretty nice, I see no problem with this recipe calling for TWO TO THREE COOKING APPLES'

anyway, I have now made two soups that taste mostly of sour apple and I'm sad

#the cookbook is now on its third and final strike #I think I should probably also have been warned by the way both these recipes' first step is to boil the veg in some water #which is tbf the first step of Good And Trusted Potato Soup Recipe but then potato soup recipe adds a fuck ton of spices later #whereas these recipes do read like the stereotypical 'brit who is scared of spices' school of cookery

[faytelumos]

I have the biggest craving for PennyWaynes content.

There really isn't enough of it out there.

I don't even think AO3 has a PennyWaynes tag.

We're being robbed.

#PennyWaynes #Alfred Pennyworth #Martha Wayne #Thomas Wayne #get together fic? #Thomas and Alfred already bi in love when Martha enters stage left? #Alfred like #'Don't trust her. Thomas. she's a trollip.' #Thomas like #'How do I look. I have to impress her.' #Martha like #'Dump the Brit and have some fun.' #slice of life fic? #Bruce is finally in bed and it's time for the parents to all unwind and cuddle #sexy fic? #spoiler alert: Thomas is a brat #just anything #I just need more of it

[lxndonorris]

Id love to watch this weekend just for lando alone, but I know Id just get upset by that hostile atmosphere and the bs of skynews.

Just wishing Lando a perfect weekend and some good points.

#lando norris #The only brit I trust

[cheesydelphox]

i said it on twitter so i'll say it here. it's very funny that mest canonically thinks erza is the coolest girlboss ever and erza canonically thinks mest is a fucking asshole and what makes it funny is that they're both right

#i'm the only one allowed to make the mest jokes okay #it's like how americans will joke about america sucking balls but suddenly become really patriotic when brits start making fun of us. #anyway the only person who knows all the details of mest's one sided admiration and erza's bitter loathing is wendy #she's the only one anyone in that guild trusts to keep a secret #fairy tail #erza scarlet #fairy tail erza

[groovy-dxior]

the boyfriends <33

#they r Literally married guys #source : Trust me #ALSO YES THEY R GAY MEN ! #jean is bi & transmasc Si is just gay #shoutout 2 queer chipmunks Fr #be who you are #for your pride #brit made simons pjs Btw #alvin and the chipmunks #alvin and the chipmunks fanart #aatc #the chipmunks #simon seville #jeanette miller #queer #gnc #mlm #nblm #pride #fanart #procreate

[noa748]

Also I keep waiting for someone to question why Raven knew the white haired dude’s name in Keiv Moc?? Like the first thing out of my mouth would be “do you know that guy??” Especially with the group knowing next to nothing about Raven as it is lol

#I’m so used to team trust issues symphonia #this group does not yet know the sting of betrayal #sweet innocent babes #Brit plays vesperia

[metacarpus]

je fais noël chez les anglais cette année j'ai trop peur

#envie d'acheter un bourgogne juste au cas où mais je dois économiser cependant (normalement c mon beau-père ou mon père qui se charge de #fournir les vins délicieux... #but can i trust the brits for delicious wine?? #mmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[fcb-mv33]

Lmao at the team principals meeting on porpoising... Christian asking Toto if his outrage is for the netflix cameras (it was) and Toto insisting to keep them in the room while ultimately making a fool of himself in front of the TPs and Netflix cameras is jokes... also the TPs being fed up with him, Christian putting him into his place ("you fix your fucking car"), Andreas not even trying to hide his amusement and Steiner saying "lets go back porpoising".. the whole scene is a masterpiece and finally exposes Toto's manipulative being...

Also, just read it on twitter and had a big awakening, George misusing his role as GPDA director to gather info from the other drivers experiences on porpoising (who talked about it in GPDA meeting confidentially) and passing it onto Toto so he can plan an agenda to pressure the FIA to change the rules.... the despise I have felt towards Mercedes in the last two years... they think the whole damn world revolves around them...urgh

Honestly i fully think Toto embarrassed himself much more last season cause all the TPs were just so unserious😭😭. The issues they had were their doing and they put their own drivers in harms way instead of fixing it and then wanted to pull the competition back cause they weren’t winning. They have a victim mentality it’s so fuckign embarrassing.

Also I’m so not surprised by George since he sucked toto and Lewis’s dick to get the seat and now is still going🙄he’s literally a teachers pet and to be quite honest I don’t think any of the drivers would trust him or Lewis anymore if he really did that. The man comes off genuinely as a pompous fuck lmao.

#anon💜 #a Brit should never be trusted especially one like George #this is anti Merc Toto George Lewis cause Jesus #ep2 made them look embarrassing