Towards the end of last year I had a guy come to the counter and ask if I could recommend an album as good as the Twilight Sad album I’d sold him a couple of years ago. It turned out he was from the States, just south of Washington DC, and had had his own […]
Australian artist Ben Smith’s The Influence: Leonard Cohen Consoles Nick Cave is a fucking masterpiece. I don’t usually have these sort of feelings for oil paintings bordering on kitsch, but it seduced me. The double-portrait’s symbolic proportions, rendering Cave a melancholy child on the lap of sage Cohen, being served the blood of Jesus and the […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNSyhVEvfM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3szrdv8ckY0 And just to confuse a few folk Nick Cave – Hallelujah (Live 2001) Nick chats at the beginning about his lyrics And the man himself
Babybird – Unloveable “Here’s the official, uncut version of Babybird’s Unloveable video, directed by Johnny Depp. This particular version was just a bit too intense for the folks over at Yahoos Standards and Practices department. However, we believe that this version gives the viewer the true vision intended by both the artist and director.” Damien Jurado – […]
Isn’t it about now that the second hand shops start tweeting about new stuff #RSD13 And of course the online sellers start inviting folk to “shop” in their lock ups, garages and offices #RSD13 After a couple of tweets about Record Store Day and a bit of banter with Ian Rankin I received quite a few comments. […]
The only thing I am sure of is that I want Avalanche to continue to attract younger customers. Whether they are buying Arctic Monkeys posters, Bright Eyes badges, Biffy Clyro and Smiths vinyl or Frightened Rabbit CDs what is great is that they feel the shop is somewhere they feel comfortable spending time. My main […]
It is my understanding that the first list of closures were as much about exiting long expensive leases as about loss making shops. No shop is “safe” even in the short term as another list will follow. As a separate company wholly owned by HMV the FOPP stores were never going to appear on the […]
