Press Release

08.04.09

Tower Records celebrates Record Store Day

Tower Records, the 100% Irish owned, independent record store is very proud to be taking part in the second annual Record Store Day taking place on Saturday April 18^th. World Record Store Day was founded in the US and was set up to celebrate the art of music and the unique culture surrounding independently owned record stores. 'Tower Live' will host special guest performances on the day from One Day International, Story of Hair and very special guest Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy.

World Record Store Day was set up in 2007 and is now celebrated on the third Saturday of April each year. Since then it has gone global with over 1,000 stores taking part internationally. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 18^th 2008. For full details of this year's worldwide celebrations visit www.recordstoreday.com.

In Ireland, Tower Records will be celebrating Record Store Day with a series of special releases and in-store performances from:

Heathers

Hooray For Humans

202's

Story of Hair

The Laundry Shop

One Day International

Neill Hannon

Very Special Guest

There will also be a 10% discount throughout the store and vouchers and gig tickets to be won. There will also be special Record Store Day vinyl releases including Tom Waits 7", New Order 7", a Sonic Youth & Beck split 7" and many more.

Tower Records is 100% Irish owned and prides itself on delivering personal service and a wide range of products including audio, DVD, books, Vinyl, accessories and music technology.

For more information on World Record Store Day visit www.recordstoreday.com

For information on Tower Records visit www.towerrecords.ie

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NOTE: A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we're dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores