How to Build Your Own Record Pressing Plant: The True Story of Press On Vinyl (Book)

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Steve was granted full access to the plant and its staff in this warts-and-all tale of resilience, creativity and community as he explores the intricate relationships between the owners and their staff, how they came to be where they are today and their love of all things Teesside. From an empty warehouse with a half-built galvanics laboratory to a bustling factory, how Press On Vinyl aimed to turn the record industry on its head while also creating jobs and opportunities in their beloved Middlesbrough, and succeeded. Full colour photos, 272 pages, QR codes that give exclusive access to videos so you can watch and meet the people and process you are reading about!

“Steve Spithray shines the light on a quixotic new addition to the North East’s industrial story - the heroic venture in 21st-century record-making that is Middlesbrough’s Press On Vinyl. In sharp, lyrical prose, Spithray goes beyond the weary clichés of modern music writing to celebrate a group of people truly making it new – and pointing to a way out of their hometown’s rumoured decline in the process. This is a truly remarkable and essential book: if Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer don’t read it and take note of its example, we’re all doomed.” Alex Niven, author and journalist