6 Music’s Lauren Laverne is bringing her popular mid-morning show to Vinyl Tap Records in Huddersfield next Friday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day. She’ll be joined by a number of special guests including spoken word artist Kate Tempest, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and poet Simon Armitage. There’ll be some live music from local band Fold, and a Desert Island Disco in honour of Prince to mark the year anniversary since his death.

Kate Tempest will tell all about being a Record Store Day Ambassador and being in charge of this year’s Brighton Festival. She will also give an exclusive preview of a special track she recorded straight to vinyl at Abbey Road Studios to celebrate RSD. Alexis Taylor will host a live Desert Island Disco in honour of Prince to mark the one year anniversary of his death, and Simon Armitage will talk through his connections in the local area and his Record Store Day collaboration with Leeds indie rock group, The Wedding Present.

Lauren also welcomes local band Fold who’ll be live in session. Encompassing funk, jazz, soul and psyche, they’ll be bringing their fusion of music and archive recordings along for a special performance at Vinyl Tap. The store will still be open to the public and visitors are welcome to watch the show being made, subject to space.

Presented in association with BBC Music, this is the second time 6 Music has hit the road to celebrate all things vinyl, following their visit to Brighton last year with Fat Boy Slim and Tim Burgess.

Lauren Laverne, 6 Music presenter, said: “The 10th anniversary of Record Store Day is going to be a hugely special day, and I’m so pleased to be marking the occasion in Huddersfield at one of the most iconic record stores with some of the most talented people in the industry.” Record Store Day launched in the UK in 2008 and is the one day of the year when over 200 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture.

Sonically both English bed-sits and American big skies are audible on ‘Folklore’ by Matthew Edwards & the Unfortunates,  accompanied by wry melancholia, literate lyrics, avant-garde flourishes and a general air of louche European sophistication. Although hard to pin down, ‘Folklore’ can loosely be described as ambitious, beautifully-crafted baroque indie rock, where cellos, theremin, harpsichord, farfisa and clanging guitar all find their space. Reminiscent of Robyn Hitchcock, The Go-Betweens and Nick Cave, the album is sophisticated and educated, but also not ashamed to flash a little angry muscle.

“After 20 years living in California I returned to Birmingham and ‘Folklore’ is the chronicle of that return”, explains Matthew. The band are based in Birmingham UK and San Francisco, and the album was recorded in Leamington Spa in England by John A. Rivers (Felt, Dead Can Dance, Denim, Buzzcocks) and in San Francisco by Robert Taylor.

As with the band’s critically-acclaimed first album The Fates, the Unfortunates are again joined by a top-rank supporting cast, this time consisting of Dagmar Krause on vocals (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Kevin Coyne), Fred Frith on guitar (Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, John Zorn) and keyboards from Eric Drew Feldman (PJ Harvey, Captain Beefheart, Pixies, Sparklehorse). All songs were written by Matthew Edwards except ‘Song of Songs’, on which Matthew was aided by drummer Derick Simmonds.

Listen to ‘Lazy' here

Matthew Edwards & the Unfortunates play the following live dates:

Sunday 14th May @ Come Down & Meet the Folks, The Apple Tree, Clerkenwell

Saturday 3rd June @ Centrala, Digbeth, Birmingham

Friday 1st September @ Moseley Folk Festival

US dates in Autumn 2017 & UK festival dates to be announced