I’ve been asked a lot from various sides of the music industry recently why the Avalanche chart features so many local bands and/or why other shop charts don’t. Other charts are of course based on staff picks and less often sales. First of all I haven’t had the time or the inclination to extensively check […]
A few months ago I had a visit from an interesting guy. He was from Israel and had a way of talking as sometimes people from that country do that was quite intense. He talked about issues affecting the music industry in a very knowledgeable way and told me things as if they were certain […]
We reopen on Thursday 27th at 11am.
A slight change to now include the excellent Neu! Reekie! single x 1. Frightened Rabbit – State Hospital 2. Withered Hand – Inbetweens 3. There Will Be Fireworks – Because, Because 4. Jesus Baby / Kevin Williamson – The Caterpillar Tango / In A Darkened Room 5. Rachel […]
With 5 days of sales to go here is the top 30 1. The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know 2. Meursault – Something for The Weakened 3. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas 4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah Don’t Bend Ascend 5. Admiral Fallow – Tree […]
A lot of people have suggested the shop could be used more as a venue given its size and the lack of small venues in Edinburgh. I’m not sure whether that will work long term but while we are closed it seems like a good idea. I always intended to ask this year’s best selling […]
A side effect of the blog becoming more and more popular was that it suddenly seemed to face far more attacks (of a cyber nature) that the blog wasn’t really geared up for. We also managed to exceed our bandwidth but that was sorted very quickly thanks to United Hosting. Anyway thanks also to Steve […]
To celebrate the short film released this weekend highlighting the Grassmarket as the arts hub of Edinburgh with independent traders to match, Avalanche has at great personal expense secured a visit from Santa’s ponies to the Grassmarket. With Edinburgh’s premier children’s gift shop Helios Fountain next door we find that between ourselves and our other […]
Thursday 6th December @ Avalanche 19.00 until 21.00 ***TMPRLT*** www.tmprlt.co.uk MUSIC BY MONTRELL MCSWAIN www.montrell-mswain.tumblr.com
