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Diverse Music

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THIS SATURDAY
An in store set from local singer songwriter Matt Blumberg. Starts at 4pm.
Then on Thursday 5th June Diverse is proud to present The Clay's single launch at Meze Lounge in conjunction with The Joy Collective.
Diverse Music is Newport's only physical ticket outlet. We sell tickets for most local gigs and dance events.
Tickets For Sale
To check out what's going on in Newport and the surrounding area, have a look at this:
Diverse Music is Newport's premiere (well, only) independent record store. We opened in 1988, got bigger, then smaller again, and now we're settled in a small but friendly unit at number 10 Charles Street.
As the name suggests, we stock a diverse range of new releases and back catalogue. We also stock CDs by unsigned bands, so if you've got a CD you think we should have on our shelves, give us a shout!
Our specialist subject is vinyl, and we've probably got the largest selection of brand new LPs you'll find anywhere! We have a sister company called Diverse Vinyl, which offers LP mail order via the internet.
Contrary to popular belief, there are still many new releases on LP (our catalogue lists over 3000), but if it weren't for stores like us, most vinyl enthusiasts would be unaware of them and would reluctantly trek to the nearest megastore to buy the CD.
The aim of Diverse Vinyl, like our physical store, is to stock and sell music from all categories, not to specialise in any one area. Our website lists all the stock we hold at the time of upload. Obviously not all new albums warrant a vinyl pressing, but sometimes popular titles are released on LP overseas, which we will import. In fact, if an album is available on LP anywhere in the world, we'll do our best to keep it in stock! We hope the site will provide a near-definitive list of all brand new LPs available, whether reissues or new albums, and offer an invaluable worldwide resource to vinyl junkies everywhere. We cater for diverse tastes in music in more than 30 countries.
Come and join our crusade to keep vinyl alive! Support your local independent - you'll miss us when we're gone!

To contact us at Diverse music, please use any of the following:
To ring us -
+44(0)1633 259661
To fax us -
+44(0)1633 256261
To email us -
[email protected]
To post us stuff -
Diverse Music 10 Charles Street Newport NP20 1JU
We are selling tickets for the rather wonderful looking festival below, it's only an hour or so away and features some of our favourite bands. It's £43 including booking fee for 2 days music and camping, don't bother with Reading or Glasto, give this a go instead.
T-SHIRTS NOW IN
Diverse Music design - £8. Colours available are:
Diverse Vinyl design - £10. Available in white and grey.
Comment Us
If you have a photo of yourself in a Diverse T-Shirt next to a landmark, with a celebrity (or if you are a celeb wearing one)or somewhere exotic, send it to us and be added to the slide show.


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who loves good music and anyone who wants to keep vinyl alive (especially if they order it from us).

This is footage of The Redlands Palomino Company gig Diverse put on:

Two of us promote an americana and country night once a month, to find out more about it, click the banner below.

Music:

Diverse Recommended Albums

For reviews, click on images.

Matt's Albums Of 2007

Future Of The Left - Curses

500 Miles To Memphis - Sunshine In A Shot Glass

Le Reno Amps - So For Your Thrills...

The Redlands Palomino Company - Take Me Home

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Richmond Fontaine - Thirteen Cities

Sounds Like Violence - With Blood On My Hands

Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers

Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces

Rilo Kiley - Under The Backlight

We sell rock, blues rock,indie rock, classic rock, swamp rock, post rock, folk rock, alternative rock, country rock and jazz rock, but not jazz metal (unless you count the Mars Volta and their crazy time signatures). We also sell pop, power pop, blues (both electric and gritty acoustic pre-war field recordings), jazz (modern and trad), 70s funk, soul, americana, bluegrass, country not western (except Dolly Parton, she rocks!) , alternative and underground hip hop (definitely no jiggy nonsense), downtempo jazzy chill out groovy kind of stuff for trendy Carhartt wearing types,lots of wierd stuff from Cargo that The Wire magazine likes,punk, reggae (mainly 70s and no homophobic digital or ragga) hardcore, metal, rockabilly, electronica, emo, folk, R&B (in the Professor Longhair sense and definitely not the R Kelly kind of b*ll*cks), and world music from all corners of the globe!

go to

Diverse Vinyl

to see the music we sell.

Occasionally we do the odd instore, we couldn't turn down Miles Hunt. This is a photo of Erica, Paul, Milo and Matt.

This is a photo of Dolly Varden in our store the morning after playing at Hot Burrito.

Movies:

High Fidelity, Spinal Tap, Buena Vista Social Club, O Brother Where Art Thou?

Books:

Playing Mercy - Matthew David Scott, Fire and Water - Hayley Long, Dial M For Merthyr - Rachel Trezise.

Heroes:

Texas Is The Reason, Mclusky, Brand New, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ceri Jones, Hot Burrito, Miles Davis, Straylight Run, Frommars, Morrissey, Gary Inight, Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, James Haggard, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Joy., Richard Thompson, Future Of The Left, Teenage Fanclub, Matt Jarrett, REM, Dolly Varden, Bill Davey, Roddy Woomble, Nutty Slack, The New 1920, Redlands Palomino Co, Lozza from Pinnacle, the guy who invented Twiglets (oh where have the tangy ones gone?), Dave Grohl (I would), Super Furry Animals, Baldy, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Simon The Gas, Lone Wolf, Tim The Carpet, Alex P, Neil Young, Earl Hawkins, John Peel, Dave Jones, Lee Scratch Perry, Pink Floyd, Keith Floyd, Floyd The Barber, Public Enemy, Homer Simpson, Jack Daniels, Grant Canyon, Keef The Teeth, The Jayhawks, Ivor Cutler, Johnny Cash....to be continued..

My Blog

TICKETS ON SALE NOW: UPDATED LIST

TJs:TEEN SPIRIT             21/3/07 £5UNEARTH                  30/3/07 £14MISERY SIGN...
Posted by Diverse Music on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:50:00 PST

CHECK OUT THE VIDEOS

Scroll down and you'll see a video clip of the Redlands Palomino Co at Le Pub, plus a slideshow of images from the night too!   Ahhh the memories...
Posted by Diverse Music on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:55:00 PST

WHAT A GIG!

I've just about recovered from last night's gig!  Silver Spurs were great, Lone Pine on top form and The Redlands Palomino Co brought the incredibly packed house well and truly down!The band admi...
Posted by Diverse Music on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

REDLANDS INSTORE.......

Hey kids,Alex and Hannah from The Redlands Palomino Co. will be appearing live in our little store on 12th February at 5pm playing songs from their brand new album "Take Me Home", which is released th...
Posted by Diverse Music on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:58:00 PST

CHRISTMAS PARTY TIME

It's the night I spend all year looking forward to (and then get so drunk I hardly remember it).  This year's Christmas gig will be in the only venue that matters....Le Pub.After an incendiary pe...
Posted by Diverse Music on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:10:00 PST

TIMELORD VISITS DIVERSE

Apologies to those of you who called into the shop this week for Teen Spirit tickets, only to find the shop being taken over by a film crew.  We tried to cover everything, but completely forgot a...
Posted by Diverse Music on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:43:00 PST

KAZAKHSTAN, COME ON DOWN!

We took our first LP mail-order from Kazakhstan today!  This takes the total number of countries with Diverse customers to 53....pretty impressive even if I do say so myself! Try naming 53 countr...
Posted by Diverse Music on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:14:00 PST