BRIGHTON ROCK Singer Leading The Vinyl Charge In North America
July 7, 2016, 8 years ago
According to FYI Music News, Brighton Rock singer and President of Isotope Music Inc, Gerry McGhee has partnered with Czech vinyl manufacturing company GZ in Precision Record Pressing Inc, a Burlington, Ontario-based vinyl pressing plant that will soon be the second largest in North America.
“There’ll be an announcement pretty soon about the first record we’re pressing and what band it is," McGhee says. "There’ll be a documentary done on it, plus a press conference from the plant.”
McGhee adds that “the official opening date will be September 16th. The chairman of the board of GZ will be here from Prague, and we’ve been informed that the Czech Ambassador to Canada will attend and cut the ribbon.”
The company has been pressing vinyl in Prague since January, filling orders for Universal and Sony Canada plus some independent labels. “In phase one we can do 4.5 million units out of the Burlington plant plus 2 million from the Czech plant,” says McGhee. “We’ve already put phase two into motion and that is adding five new automated presses. That’ll put us over the 11 million mark, making us the second largest plant in North America. We’ve already bought a plant in the US based in the Midwest and there’ll be a west coast plant so we’ll have three in North America.”
McGhee explains that he first realized the unexpected vinyl resurgence was for real “about five years ago. At Isotope we were bringing in vinyl from European companies and whatever we brought in would sell. That’s when I saw vinyl as the next big move for my company.”
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