This Saturday, step away from the strip-lit music chain stores and head down to the very end of the High Street to celebrate Record Store Day 2015 (RSD) at The LP Café, where the music-obsessed staff are hoping to create a little bit of a carnival atmosphere in the centre of Watford.

“I’m super excited,” says Paul Terris, the Watford-born co-owner of the cafe and record shop on the Parade, “both as a shop keeper and as a record collector myself.

“It’s an opportunity to show off what we do at the cafe all year round and to share a passion for records with as many other collectors as possible.”

Paul and the small team of dedicated staff will spend the day playing great indie and alternative music, helping customers find classic, rare records, and serving up coffee and food. There will be live performances taking place from 2pm – look out for sets from Minnie Birch, Chris Timms, Silent Wood, The Chickpeas, David Morgan, Matt ‘n’ Andy, Cian Davis, LINO and Anova Skyward – and special releases available to buy, both official RSD ones and records, singles and EPs by local musicians, such as Gallows, The Staves, Dios Mio, Lost in the Riots, Sikth, who are releasing their debut album as an RSD exclusive, and new Watford band Nervous.

“It’s a really exciting time for Watford’s music scene at the moment,” says Paul, who has previously worked for HMV and CD Warehouse in Watford and Southern Records in north London. “We want to show off what Watford’s got to offer on this day.”

As well as output by local artistes, Paul – whose love of vinyl began when he won a seven-inch Terence Trent D’Arby single in a dancing competition aged five – will be fighting the customers to get his hands on Metallica demo cassette tapes and The White Stripes’ album Get Behind Me Satan on vinyl, among the other special RSD releases.

“I would recommend visiting as many record shops on the day as possible,” says Paul, who spent a lot of his childhood browsing the stock at Past and Present Records on St Albans Road and at the record fair at Bushey Hall School (now Bushey Academy). “Go to Second Scene in Bushey, Empire in St Albans, The Record Shop in Amersham – you want to go and see what everyone’s got. You never know what gold you’re going to find. It’s such a buzz when you get one of the rare ones that you’re after.”