Revolving Grooves: Vinyl Culture Symposium
Saturday, 18 April 2026 Time: 11am
This event is a one-day symposium exploring the cultural and material life of vinyl records. The symposium explores the cultural and material life of vinyl records, and takes place on record store day. It also includes an evening after-event with performances. The event takes place in The Cornerstone Theatre (COR 001) at Liverpool Hope University's Creative Campus and is part of Angel Field Festival 2026. Capacity is limited to 50 attendees. Registration is required at the link at this site. Entry is free with registration.
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Vinyl culture is currently experiencing a moment of heightened public visibility. Rather than approaching the day as celebration alone, the event creates space for discussion around the place of physical music formats within a landscape shaped by streaming platforms and digital technologies.
Bringing together DJs, record shop owners, collectors, sound system operators and researchers from across Liverpool, Revolving Grooves foregrounds practitioner experience alongside academic reflection, situating local perspectives within wider questions of performance, circulation and materiality.
Through presentations, roundtable conversations and performances, the symposium explores vinyl as performance medium, cultural infrastructure and living archive.
The event is presented by Liverpool Hope University and kindly sponsored by Dancecult Research Network, Society for Music Production Research, Decks in the City, Svara Radio and Equity Hi-Fi.
Schedule:
Talks and Discussion: 11:00 — 17:00
Bryan Biggs — Bluecoat
Kerri Ankrah-Lucas — Decks in the City
Max Ansell — Equity Hi-Fi
Jess Fairclough — Dead Air Records
Nina Kehagia — shesaid.so/University of Liverpool
Jacques Malchance — Upitup Records
Manoli Moriaty — Liverpool Hope University
Veronica Skrimsjö — Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Tom Wilson — Arts Bar
James Young — Svara Radio
Evening Performances: 21:00 — 23:00
Andrew Leslie Hooker
Equity Hi-Fi
Jacques Malchance