Welcome to Hundred Records

VINYL • CDs • T-SHIRTS • BOOKS

One of Hampshire’s finest independent record shops

47 The Hundred, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 8GE

Dedicated to and obsessed with great music!

Open 10am–4pm Monday to Saturday

Closed on bank holidays

Record Store Day, Saturday 12 June

Record Store Day 2021 Drop 1 hits town at 8am on 12 June!

We’ll be making sure the day is as safe as possible while keeping the fun and enjoyment of RSD alive. Bear with us – we’re going to do everything we can to make sure it works well for everyone who comes.

Click here to view the exclusive releases that will be in the shop at opening time. For details of how RSD will work at Hundred Records this year, please click this link.

See you then!

Special pre-sale offers

Low prices that won’t be available after release, so get in early and get a great deal!

Pre-sale of the week is Bright Magic by Public Service Broadcasting, out on 24 September.

Click here to see all our current pre-sale offers

Latest new releases

Our summer sizzlers for 25 June start with Earth Trip from celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson, who formed Rose City Band to explore his songwriting talents; the album charts a journey of personal growth and introspection with surprising honesty, and it’s a celebration of summer warmth and the great outdoors. M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger went looking for peace, and Quietly Blowing It is a retrospective of the past five years of his life, going deep and painted in impressionistic hues. John Murry’s third album, The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes, is full of startling imagery and insinuating melodies, of cold moonlight and searing heat, and penetrates you to the very heart, searing with its burning honesty, its unsparing intimacy and its twisted beauty. The reissue of PJ Harvey’s back catalogue continues with White Chalk, originally released in September 2007, and it’s been lovingly remastered and is accompanied by collection of unreleased demos from the album. Leviathan is a new collaborative album from electronic duo The Grid (aka Richard Norris & Dave Ball) and Robert Fripp, combining Fripp soundscapes with synth, drums, programming and effects by The Grid.

Our release of the week is Boy From Michigan, the most autobiographical and melodic work to date from John Grant. In a decade of making records by himself, Grant has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts.

Click on a release for more details and to pre-order a copy. Look out for our special low pre-sale prices in red – order early so you don’t miss them!

With labels focused on RSD, we’ve got a bijou selection of four releases for 18 June, plus an early peek at two from the enormous list due out on 25 June. First up is Consequences, one of Joan Armatrading’s most intimate and direct albums yet, and one that wears its heart – and its conscience – on its sleeve; it’s very different from 2018’s Not Too Far Away and ably illustrates the fact that she never likes to repeat herself. The double-CD/triple-LP expanded deluxe edition of Charles Mingus’ classic 1974 live album Mingus At Carnegie Hall includes over an hour of previously unreleased material sequenced in the order of the original performance, as well as never-before-seen photos and new liner notes. The two volumes of demos from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, recorded between 2011 and 2020, come to you in a lovely double pack! As front-man Stu Mackenzie says: “These recordings were never supposed to see the light of day. But here they are: loose as; sloppy as. Hopefully endearing.” On to releases for 25 June, we have Merci Miles! Live At Vienne, a previously unreleased set recorded just 3 months before Miles Davis’s death that includes two songs written by Prince: ‘Penetration’ and ‘Jailbait’. On 22 June 1971, Joni Mitchell released Blue, a masterpiece still regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, The Reprise Albums (1968–1971), collects Joni’s first four albums, newly remastered versions and, in the case of Song To A Seagull, freshly mixed. “The original mix was atrocious,” says Mitchell, “so I fixed it!”

Our release of the week is Carnage, a new album that Nick Cave & Warren Ellis recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown in an accelerated process of intense creativity that Cave describes as “a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe.”. Although the pair have composed and recorded many soundtracks together, and Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of songs as a duo.

Click here for more details and to order your copy.

Click here to reserve other recent releases. Also check out some of the great reissues of classic albums.

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Forthcoming events

We hold regular in-store events, with live performances and more. Have a look at our diary of events for more details, and join our mailing list to make sure you don’t miss out!

Turin Brakes performing to a packed-out Hundred Records. Photo courtesy of Aidan Hampson.

Recent shows have included album launches from indie rock duo Honeyblood, rising star Jade Bird, Marry Waterson & Emily Barker, William The Conqueror, Razorlight and Turin Brakes.

If you want something that we haven’t got in stock at the moment, we can order it for you!

Call Mark on 01794 518655 or email us if you want to order something or if you’ve got any other questions.

Come and browse in our shop! We’ve got a great stock of music on vinyl and CD, covering rock, jazz, soul, country, dance and electronic, classical and much more! We also stock music-related T-shirts and books.

Our shop is conveniently situated for Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury, Alton, Basingstoke, Fareham, Portsmouth and other places in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and beyond! Click here for details of how to find us.