Curating items for the farfetch.com website

18 of my 20 picks are now sorted. I have simply picked the bands and the albums that I think represent what Avalanche’s support for Scottish music has been about over the last couple of years. A couple I couldn’t pick because of stock problems and I’m still hopeful I’ll be able to add a […]

Record Store Day quantities

RSD quantities are normally based on a shop’s orders over the year from a record company which is something I whole heartedly agree with. However given how few new CDs we sell now I imagine that will impact on the quantities we receive of the really limited stuff. All shops figures are down so it […]

Album/single launches and pledges

I’ve had a spate of people asking me to put up posters in the shop for album/single launches. Some intend to bring the release into the shop afterwards, a few before and some haven’t even considered it. Even bringing the release in before unfortunately doesn’t work as folk still just wait for the launch. Avalanche […]

Record Store Day 2012

Not had a lot of feedback this year about titles wanted apart from the obvious. Understandable in a way given the huge amount this year. Lots of questions about price and how limited releases really are. All shops can do is pass on what we are told. As many of you will know shops are […]

Space Invaders – Never did reach the end

I’ve always said that running the shop was like playing space invaders and one day I’d be overrun by the constant bombardment of emails (on top of everything else) the way I never quite got to the end of space invaders once those men started off at the bottom. That day has come. Losing my […]

Record Store Day 2012, Album Club etc etc

Way behind but will post regular updates now I have finished curating the items for the farfetch.com website. For those wondering they gave the OK to post the news but then received so many enquiries when they weren’t ready to make a formal announcement they asked me to take it down. It has taken up […]

Domino Record Store Day releases

No guarantees but good if customers can let me know what they would like. Once again we’ll be participating in Record Store Day, releasing a number of special records, exclusively through independent shops on Saturday the 21st of April 2012. Here’s what we have in store: Smugglers Way Flexi Zine Smugglers Way is Domino and Ribbon’s […]

Internetless

Update : now Wednesday ! My phone line at home is down until at least Tuesday so I can only access emails etc in the shop which means I’ll be even further behind than normal as I do most of my work at home before and after work. Couldn’t have happened at a worse time […]

Can you help find this man's hat ?

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat x If anyone’s going past Falkirk Municipal Building car park, could you look for my hat please? Seriously, this one: . seriously, if anyone can find my hat , I’ll write you a song / buy you some drinks / whatever … I really love(d?) that hat, and I think I dropped […]

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