3Beat Dance Music Blog

They say it’s not over till the fat lady sings – well today is a very sad days as she is singing her heart out in Liverpool. After 19 years the world famous 3 Beat Record Store that fed the world elite dj’s as well as the man on the street’s appetite with everything for the classiest, coolest underground releases to the monster, pop, club crossovers has today shut its doors for the very last time.

The past eighteen months has been tough on traditional music retail with high street chains falling foul of the market shift to downloading and the smaller trader in turn has also felt the pinch.

Jon Barlow the owner of 3 Beat said ‘the past year especially has been difficult – I have invested heavily in keeping the store open but that is now not an option. There is a simple fact that sums up the situation our record label now does not manufacture vinyl – how can we justify running a record shop when we are not backing vinyl as a product from our own label…’

The 3 Beat labels 3 Beat Blue and 3 Beat Red continue to trade and are in fact in fantastic shape moving forward - currently sat at number 3 in the national charts with Agnes ‘Release Me’ the multi talented Swedish Idol winner and a whole host of other releases from Agent X Feat Ultra & Mutya [of Sugababes fame] P Money, Alkazar, Skyla and Cahill.

The end of an era and some of the best times of my life – 3 Beat Records RIP [Pezz]

Drum and Bass legends Example are live in the shop on Saturday as well as signing and giving away cd’s, be sure not to miss this!!

Were now dabbling with a bit of dusbtep instore. In the past its not been a strong enough muscial  genre to be economical for us but due to increasing requests we’ve decided to give it a go. Please ask in store for more details.

Another stellar line up from Chibuku featuring Simian Mobile Disco, Skream, DJ Friction and London Elektricity amongst others …..

Friendly Fires will be appearing in Liverpool on 29th May ……

A court in Sweden has jailed and ordered the four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, to pay £3 million in damages..

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.

Easter promises to be a bumper weekend on the liverpool club circuit with Circus, Cream, Mumu and Aztec all putting on quality line ups.

Aztec kick things off with the Surgeon on Saturday night. Then on Sunday Circus are sporting Groove Armada, Eric Prydz, Jamie Jones and Damian Lazarus amongst others.

Cream cater for the funkier/electro crowd with David Guetta, Seb Leger, Sebastian Ingrosso, Dave Spoon, John Dahlback and for those who like it a bit tougher Eddie Halliwell and Mauro Picotto.

Not to be outdone Mumu have teamed up with the Zoo Project with Guy Gerber headlining and support coming from 3beat’s Jemmy along with a host of other fine dj’s and live acts…

All tickets are selling well in store so get yourself in asap if you want to go to any of these events.

Adam

This weekend promises to be really special for the chibuku lot at the Barfly, tickets are flying out the door and they welcome back some of their favourites, including: Dj Marky, Shy Fx, Mehdi, Riton, Kissy Sell Out + more… j

Circus hit us with another monumental line-up to celebrate Easter. The line up includes Damian Lazarus, Groove Armada, Eric Prydz and Jamie Jones. full details below ….

3 Beat will now be stocking student/NUS discount tickets for Chibuku and Circus. Only one ticket can be purchased per valid NUS card and the card must be presented at the time of purchase.