Andy Gill

I’d never given it a lot of thought but I always kind of assumed Andy Gill who does music reviews for the Independent was Andy Gill from the Gang of Four. Not until I recently came across Andy Gill reviewing the Gang of Four @ RTE did I realise this might not be the case. […]

PJ Harvey single out Monday – album with free print

We have copies of the very limited seven inch available this Monday and if you preorder the album for the following week we have a lovely print to give away. ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’ is released tomorrow 7th February, backed by an exclusive track, ‘The Guns Called Me Back Again’, recorded during the ‘Let England […]

Zoey Van Goey In-store – Chemikal Underground

The first week of March we are featuring the Chemikal Underground label and the week culminates in an in-store from the wonderful Zoey Van Goey on Saturday 5th March whose new album is out on the 14th February. I’m sure that it is wonderful too but since I don’t have a copy being a mere […]

Rob St. John tickets @ Avalanche

Rob St John Ziggy Campbell Thirty Pounds of Bone February 19th 2011 from 7.00pm @ Wee Red Bar Edinburgh School of Art

My Party Ponies

 I was sent an interesting link to a blog @ http://thelastrecordshop.wordpress.com/ which to be fair is quite funny. Lampooning everything from record shops to experimental music and record store day Avalanche’s move to the Grassmarket had caught their eye. Obviously well connected they knew I had threatened to provide pony rides in the Grassmarket […]

Kevin Cummins @ Avalanche

Thanks to everybody who came along today. We sold all but two of the books which was amazing and Kevin took time to chat with everybody and even had his photo taken with a tennis racket for some reason. Sadly Olaf from Born To Be Wide who had organised Kevin’s appearance was too busy elsewhere […]

Kevin Cummins

Just back from seeing Kevin Cummins tonight at Born To Be Wide and he is certainly good value so if you want to hear how Joy Division could have been Manchester’s answer to Bon Jovi I would definitely pop along for his appearance in the shop tomorrow @ 1pm.