Celebrated by artists and fans, Neil and Kathy Wilson have refocused their lives around vinyl records
, looking like a kid on Christmas Day. He slides back a glass door and reveals the source of his enthusiasm – a brand spanking new, fresh off the boat, vinyl record press.
But Suitcase is Queensland’s first fully functioning record press in 30 years. For Neil and Kathy, this endeavour is more mid-life awakening than mid-life crisis. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning“Ten years ago I went across to working for big construction firms doing project and design management. We worked on building hospitals and so on. I had moved away from anything creative. It was in a world with a very hard-nosed process. There was animosity and butting of heads. There were big dollars, big jobs and big contracts on the line.
Asking U2’s The Edge on the PopMart Tour in 1998, I queried the comparison between omnipresent CDs to the then virtually defunct vinyl.Neil Wilson handles freshly pressed records from his Allegro Line II press.The Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster told me that digital files – when the volume is increased – “just get louder, vinyl fills the room. It’s warmer.”
Neil Wilson first caught the bug when he was given a copy of Suzi Quatro’s debut album as a Christmas present. He played it again and again on the family record player. When he had his own cash to spend, he opted for Midnight Oil’s Red Sails In The Sunset. Some of Kathy’s fondest memories are lying on the floor as a kid and listening to her father’s copy of Billy Joel’s Turnstiles and the song New York State Of Mind.
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