UNFD stock damaged by Sydney hailstorm

The Sydney warehouse used by UNFD has been heavily damaged along with the independent label’s stock. The news comes just days out from the release of In Hearts Wake’s latest LP.

The Huntington warehouse where UNFD store their artists' stock housed the Byron Bay band’s new LP Skydancer, set for release on Friday May 1.

The storms which damaged parts of New South Wales saw 10-20 centimeters of rainfall and hail hit Sydney on Saturday and Huntington was one of the most affected areas with several distribution centres hit hard. Food and liquor wholesalerMetcash, which also houses some of its stock in Huntington,was damaged and has temporarilyclosed.

While UNFD were able to have more stock manufactured in time for the LP’s release, and retail stores in Western Australia, North Queensland and Tasmania had received stock prior to the storms, most stores may have to wait until next week. In an effort to encourage fans to visit retailers over the next few days In Hearts Wake will be visiting independent record stores in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend.

TMN understands that the damaged stock will affect the first-week physical sales of Skydancer, however pre-order and digital sales are strong.

The band’s statement on Facebook said: “It's moments like these that we must surrender to what is, and do our best to make the most out of an unfortunate situation. But seriously, what better way to admit defeat than for Skydancer to bow down to the power of Father Sky! Kind of ironic isn't it?”

Physical copies can be ordered online via Unified’s merch store 24hundred.net/collections/skydancer.

In Hearts Wake will visit Rocking Horse in Brisbane from 4pm Friday, 24Hundred in Melbourne from 11am Saturday and Utopia Records in Sydney from 2pm Sunday. The band will still perform their launch event in Byron Bay on Saturday night.

Read In Hearts Wake’s full statement below:

As you’re all probably aware, severe storms have damaged large parts of New South Wales in the past week. The storms have not only damaged people’s lives, homes, work places and wreaked havoc on public transport and roads – but the warehouse where our Skydancer CD stock was being stored was also heavily damaged. This means most of the stock wasn’t able to ship out to stores around Australia.

While stores in Western Australia, North Queensland and Tasmania have received stockfor Skydancer, we’ve been informed that most stores in other areas won’t get the record by Friday and may not have it until next week. For anyone who wants a physical copy of the CD, you can still order it online from24hundred.net/collections/skydanceror for those who prefer heading to record stores, we’ve organised to come and hang out at stores in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney over the weekend. These stores will all have the record in stock, and we’ll be signing stuff and hanging out with everyone who makes the effort to drop by.

Friday we’ll be at Rocking Horse in Brisbane from 4pm. Saturday we’ll be at 24Hundred in Melbourne from 11am and Sunday we’ll be at Utopia Records in Sydney from 2pm.

(Note that ALL 24 Hundred and JB CD pre-orders made online have gone out to customers.)

It's moments like these that we must surrender to what is, and do our best to make the most out of an unfortunate situation. But seriously, what better way to admit defeat than for Skydancer to bow down to the power of Father Sky! Kind of ironic isn't it? Just like the massive storms that hit us in the filming for the Breakaway music video, once again we’ve been rendered helpless to the true power of nature. Let the wild April Skydancer storms serve as a reminder that nature is the ruling force here on Earth!

Both Earthwalker and Skydancer focus heavily on our relationship with nature and the detrimental effect humans have on the Earth. If we don’t unite to protect our only home, these kind of events will only continue to happen more frequently. We hope everyone in Sydney affected by the storms is safe and sound. We’ll see you all soon.

Love,
In Hearts Wake

NOTE: We are still playing Byron Bay on Saturday night. We'll be flying in and out of Melbourne for the 24 Hundred instore to make sure everything happens as planned!