Hello. Who are we speaking with and what’s your role at White Rabbit Record Bar?
This is Annie, the owner of White Rabbit Record Bar.
White Rabbit Record Bar has been around for a decade. Can you share a couple of your favourite memories working in the store?
It’s been a strange and wonderful ten years full of ups and downs and it’s hard to describe without mentioning my late husband Mark. We had travelled together extensively throughout Europe and lived in inner city Dublin for over eight years. In that time we were ridiculous crate-diggers, vinyl collectors, gig-goers, op-shoppers and bar-hoppers. It was with a hankering for the European style of a “mixed-business” that gave birth to the idea of a record store that could also double as a bar and cafe.
With my background behind various bars and coffee machines around town and Mark’s conversational charm and Irish accent we seemed to pull it off.
You’ll be hosting a celebration of the store’s tenth anniversary on Saturday May 21. You’ve promised a huge lineup of DJs that are yet to be announced – can you hint at who might be there and what kind of tunes they’ll be spinning?
We have a full day’s lineup of DJs to keep the Rabbit hopping for our tenth birthday, featuring Neddy-Rock Steady, Ray (Bodega Bar) Stevie Striker (The Peep Tempel), and ADJ. And if we’re lucky our dear friend Chris Gill from Northside Records will be dropping in with some fat and funky tunes.
