Dave Goodwin - Features


Funeral Choices

Funeral Choices - Vinyl Stories

In Vinyl Stories Dave Goodwin takes a morbid but jovial look at various of his friends choice of songs for their funerals.


Chris Hludzik

Chris Hludzik - Vinyl Stories

In 'Vinyl Stories' Northeastern Pennsylvanian singer-songwriter Chris Hludzik talks to Dave Goodwin about his work in a recording studio led to his obsession with vinyl.


Best of Vinyl 2023

Best of Vinyl 2023 - Vinyl Stories

Rounding up what Pennyblack contributors have been spinning on the turntable this year, Dave Goodwin brings us his own list and commentary on a eclectic selection of vinyl purchases


Is Vinyl Too Expensive?

Is Vinyl Too Expensive? - Vinyl Stories

Dave Goodwin in 'Vinyl Stories' dives headfirst into a debate about the cost of new records, via a detour on the number 52 bus


Chris Bade

Chris Bade - Vinyl Stories

Dave Goodwin in ‘Vinyl Stories’ talks to New Jersey music fanatic about his discovery of a long-lost acetate of the 1967 only album by New York Latin band The Nitty Gritty Sextet.


Bill Wellwood

Bill Wellwood - Vinyl Stories

In 'Vinyl Stories' Dave Goodwin chronicles the start of a beautiful friendship based on a love of vinyl records.


Roy Bond

Roy Bond - Vinyl Stories

In his ‘Vinyl Stories’ column Dave Goodwin chats to acclaimed close up magician and Las Vegas performer Roy Bond about the records that have shaped his life


Vinyl Stories

Vinyl Stories - 2022 Vinyl

In his 'Vinyl Stories' column Dave Goodwin talks to several members of the Pennyblack team about their vinyl purchases of 2022 and some of the issues associated with it.


Vinyl Stories

Vinyl Stories - Penny Vinyl

In 'Vinyl Stories' Dave Goodwin talks to some of our writers about their vinyl purchases of the year.


Joy Division

Joy Division - The Image That Made Me Weep

In this month's 'The Image That Made Me Weep' column, Dave Goodwin takes us on a deeply personal journey into a black-and-white picture of Joy Division's Ian Curtis


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

Dave Goodwin in 'Vinyl Stories' talks to some of our writers about their vinyl purchases of 2020.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

This month's 'Vinyl Stories' is a rollicking, rip-roaring and surprisingly hair-raising tale from Pete Smith of life at the sharp end of record collecting,


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

Dave Goodwin and record collector Pete Smith share memories and essential tracks from Northern Soul imprint Grapevine Records.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

In 'Vinyl Stories' avid Northern Soul collector Pete Smith tells Dave Goodwin of his decades-long search for a difficult to find vinyl single.


British IBM

British IBM - Vinyl Stories

Indie-rock/vintage computing trio The British IBM tell Dave Goodwin their 'Vinyl Stories'.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

In his regular 'Vinyl Stories' column Dave Goodwin reflects on Britain's most popular Christmas songs.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

Continuing our series where Pennyblack contributors discuss ten songs that are important to them, Dave Goodwin brings together an eclectic mixture of tracks from 1980.


Kimberly Bright

Kimberly Bright - Vinyl Stories

Kimberly Bright talks to Dave Goodwin in his column 'Vinyl Stories' about the appalling local record store of her youth.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

Dave Goodwin, in our 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...' series, reflects on his ten favourite Northern Soul songs.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vinyl Stories

Dave Goodwin in 'Vinyl Stories' uses social media in a plight to ascertain whether all new albums should have a download.