I was hoping to find some of these but no one was selling them. Online shopping wins again...

The location is in the Adelaide CBD but it is a pig of a location to get to on foot, especially on a rainy winter day. I brought my youngest son with me to be my fetch monkey. Saturday bus then train linked up better than expected for our trip into the city, then we stopped for early lunch when we arrived in town. A taxi to the Fair location was $10 but it saved a good 45 minute walk in the rain. We got to the Fair about 11:30am.

On arrival it was in a big blue shed that is usually a car park during the week. I did some research before we left and they run small markets there each weekend but this time it was just the Music Fair.

I paid $5 to get in (my son got in for free being only 11 years old) and those first few steps in the atmosphere hit was great. They had a DJ playing a mix of just about everything starting with synthy 80s when we arrived, moving on to stuff like old school hip hop, rock classics and metal. Was an interesting mix and the DJ mixed it really well.

The layout of the tables was well done. A row down each side of the shed and 2 rings of tables with the people staffing them in the middle at the front and a single big ring table at the back. What I liked was how each vendor used as much space as they needed and each ring had 3-4 vendors. One ring at the front was three-quarters one vendor and that was the new local record shop. I started there.

Underground Records

I knew from prior research that these guys' main focus was importing new records from USA. I already knew they would have interesting stuff like Synthwave. While I find that music interesting, I don't find it so interesting I'm willing to spend $70 per Synthwave album.