Couldn’t get away until 6pm so caught a little of The Last Battle who sounded great as usual. Managed to see all of Ballboy’s set which opened with some hen party dancing and then was spoilt/enhanced by Mark E. Smith / a Mark E. Smith lookalike dancing at the front for the rest of the […]
April 2011
Grassmarket Festival – stewards
Without wanting to jinx things the weather is looking good. Possibly a little rain early morning but then nothing but sunshine for the three days. OK I’ve definitely jinxed it. Anyway a bumper attendance is expected so a few more stewards wouldn’t go amiss. Half or full days. Simple stuff like finding lost children, telling […]
Avalanche Grassmarket Music Festival sponsored by Red Dog with quite a lot of help from the Academy of Music & Sound
Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May. Obviously a little bit over long so we’ll be calling it the Grassmarket Music Festival ! With Avalanche sending the begging emails (all the bands are very kindly playing for free), Red Dog providing the equipment and the Academy filling in any gaps and providing even more expertise […]
Withered Hand Vinyl – All Good News
Those lovely people at Dan’s US record label Absolutely Kosher have said I can have 30 of the very limited (200) white vinyl copies they are pressing. I already have orders for 8 copies so it will be first come first served. Get your orders in ASAP using the shop email. It’s like Record Store […]
Aberfeldy in-store this Saturday @ 2pm
We are indeed spoiling you. As if last weekend wasn’t enough for anybody we have Aberfeldy playing in the shop @ 2pm this Saturday. While you are in do have a look at the work of Jenny Soep at the back of the shop. Some are for sale so buy one before they start selling […]
Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle of a Falling Bird
More copies in stock after we briefly ran out. Lovely hand made sleeve. Really looking forward to seeing them at the Grassmarket Fesrival on Saturday 30th April. Guest vocals from Kirsten Adamson of the Gillyflowers. Ryan Hannigan of Star Wheel Press will also have a stall at the Festival selling some of his prints. Finally […]
Frightened Rabbit / Twilight Sad cassette competition
Competition may be a bit of an exaggeration. We had a tape put by for James of Twilight Sad but he emailed today to say his label had kept him one already so we could give the tape to one lucky customer who missed out on Saturday. Simply sign up to our mailing list using […]
Glasvegas signing this Sunday 24th is now 6pm
The Glasvegas signing will now be @ 6pm after their soundcheck. It does mean you will be able to meet the band and then head straight to the venue.
New Tim Barrow film THE SPACE BETWEEN @ Avalanche on Wednesday 20th April @ 5.30pm
It is free but do let either myself or Tim know if you intend to come along so we can have some idea of numbers. There will of course be coffee and cake ! Hallo, We have the honour of screening our new film THE SPACE BETWEEN at Avalanche Records on Wednesday 20 April, as part of […]