BLUES NIGHT

14/06/2026

Many thanks to everybody who came and dug and yesterday. We had a great time. It was so nice to see you all. A little surprised to be told that there’s a rumour going around that “BLUES NIGHT is selling up,” though.

We should take this opportunity to say that no thought is further from our collective mind, but instead we’ll ask, “How much are we talking about? Does that include all the Michael Hurley albums? When can you come round and talk turkey on this? Next weekend? Great, yes, we’re opening then, too. Something about the summer solstice. But if you’re going to Stonehenge instead, how about a fortnight later? Or two weeks after that?”

09/06/2026

OUT ON THE ASTROTURF THIS SATURDAY>>>
TUPPENNY BUNTERS 3pm
BRAIN PROBATION 4pm
or something like that.

Bring a few coins to drop in the hat (to help them buy some diesel), but otherwise let’s treat it as a private party. And you’re all invited.

The two bands are very different, but both are terrific. Do come and join in!

27/04/2026

I’m sorry but I completely loathe Facebook. I just can’t be bothered to update the opening times on here each week, only to discover that I can’t then find them myself. If you want to know anything about BLUES NIGHT, especially if it’s open on the weekend you’re in Richmond, please visit

OPEN ALTERNATE WEEKENDS 1st May - 3rd May OPEN8th May - 10th May CLOSED15th May - 17th May OPEN22nd May - 24th May CLOSED29th May - 31st May OPENWe have all sorts of music on vinyl and shellac, CD and tape. We are open to friends and music-loving visitors at the times above and below, but also by ap...

19/01/2026

Back in one piece - and a sixties Val Doonican is surely an upgrade on a seventies James Last. Sticking with alternate weekends (with the occasional phase shift, like in the middle of February) for a few months, at least. Don’t go trying to predict what weekends we will be open in August or whatever, it will probably be illegal to sell records by then. Or something. You can always check openings on the website, and we’ll update the Google listing with ‘temporarily closed’ a few days before that’s the case. So no excuses now - everybody start buying Leo Kottke records like it’s going out of fashion this Friday at 5pm.

12/01/2026

BLUES NIGHT is broken. Rent asunder, cloven in twain. Basically, we are only opening alternate weekends, so please feel free to contact us if you’d like to visit at a time other than 23-25 Jan, 6-8 Feb or 20-22 Feb. After that, who knows? It’s in the lap of the dogs.

30/12/2025

Sorry folks, we can’t really be arsed to open every weekend in January, or, indeed, to type out this info from the website again. But we would like to add that if you’re in Richmond at another time, and would like a rummage through our voluminous crates, you are very welcome to get in touch and make an appointment.

21/12/2025

Screaming IT’S CHRISTMAAAS like an advocaat-gargling Noddy Holder, this old school DIY gig poster in an undecorated non-shop is here to tell you everything you need to know:
1. Don’t go turning up here after 8pm tonite. We’re going to be at this.
2. If you’re in Richmondshire and fond of live music, you should really be at this too.
3. BLUES NIGHT will be open as usual for the rest of 2025, but closed alternate weekends in Jan and Feb for some essential navel-gazing.
4. Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, make your Yuletide gay, etc.

22/11/2025

18/11/2025

Following an egregious oversight in our previous post, where he referred to “eighties albums on tape” while discussing a long-player from 1977, Tim has been relieved of his duties and placed on gardening leave for an indefinite period. Desirée has been reinstated as interim manager, until Tim sorts his life out or Pigsticks evolves opposable thumbs, whichever happens soonest.

So, naturally, it’s time to hear all about her favourite Grace Jones album. Desirée has chosen Nightclubbing.

“I don’t think it would be immodest of me to suggest that I have more in common with Grace than the other two guys, even if I am made of fibreglass, or whatever it is. Grace and I, between us, possess the four best cheekbones in the business, and we both led fantastically glamorous life styles in the late seventies and early-to-mid eighties, her in the discos and nightclubs of Manhattan, and I in the windows of Debenhams in Ipswich. This album is, for me, strongly evocative of those stylish and hedonistic days, even if I’ve never actually heard it. Unfortunately, my ears don’t even have openings, let alone tympanic membranes and cochleae.”

18/11/2025

In this exciting new series, members of the BLUES NIGHT team talk about their favourite Grace Jones elpee. Tim has chosen Portfolio.

“I suppose I should mention for a start-off that this is a compact musicassette. My love for the gamma ferric oxide is well-documented elsewhere on this account, and if anybody still doubts it, let me stake my reputation upon this:- a good-quality tape played on a well-maintained deck can be just as glorious as it was forty years ago, when I gave nary a sh*te for sound reproduction. There’s something about an eighties album on tape, with about twenty minutes of music on each side, that exposes my current mid-fifties crisis in all its glory. But there’s more here. A sumptuous Tom Moulton mix actually peaks with Duke Williams’ minimalist arrangement for La Vie en Rose, including an acoustic guitar part that sounds like I could play it. I haven’t actually tried, though.

Having flipped over from Tomorrow, it provides a spine-tingling contrast with a lavish disco version of the main them from the then-brand-new Broadway Musical Annie, with its central message that ginger kids can only experience true happiness if they are adopted by bald billionaires, which is something I think we can all relate to.

Okay, I admit it, this isn’t actually my FAVOURITE Grace Jones album. I prefer Nightclubbing and Living My Life. And Slave to the Rhythm. And Warm Leatherette.”