Slowboat Records

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My favourite record store.

They are sited in Cuba Street, Wellington, and are an old-fashioned record store with heaps of vinyl as well as CDs, DVDs and posters.

You can waste hours in that place.

And....it's amazing who turns up in there at times.

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Robert Plant visits Wellington record store

Led Zep singer hits capital record shop

By KERRY MCBRIDE - The Dominion Post | 3:20PM - Tuesday, 09 April 2013


MUSIC LOVER: Singer and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant after paying a visit to
Slowboat Records on Cuba Street today. — PHIL REID/Fairfax NZ.

EVEN rock stars have their tourist moments — and Robert Plant couldn't resist stopping to take a photo of the cardboard cutouts in the window of Slow Boat Records this afternoon.

The English musician and former Led Zeppelin frontman stopped in at the Cuba Street record store ahead of his show tonight with his band the Sensational Space Shifters.

Plant happily chatted with staff members and other customers and spent about half an hour trawling through the '50s and '60s section of the store, before settling on an album by British singer Holly Golightly.

On his way out, Plant — who is regularly listed as one of the world's great rock singers — took a moment to grab a quick snap on his phone of the cardboard guitar-playing woman in the window.

He then told The Dominion Post he was running late for stage set up and was quickly on his way.


FAN MOMENT: Robert Plant takes a snapshot of the cardboard
cut-outs in the window at Slowboat Records.
— PHIL REID/Fairfax NZ.

Slow Boat owner Dennis O'Brien said Plant and his band were on the same flight as him from Sydney on Monday evening.

"There were quite a few youngish musicians with him. Like classic English jazz players. They were all laughing and cracking jokes all the time. They all just seemed like ordinary sort of people."

Kris Taylor, who also works at Slow Boat, said musicians often stopped in to the store while in Wellington for shows.

"They come and spend heaps of time here. I think musicians just enjoy being around music."

British soul artist Michael Kiwanuka and Johnny Marr of the Smiths had recently checked out the selection.

Mr O'Brien said Plant must have posed for photos and chatted with fans "hundreds and thousands of times".

"But if he can do it one more time for Joe Blow, I think that shows a certain generosity of spirit."

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