I’ve always had a problem in that a customer would buy The Savings and Loan album and come back wanting “something as good”. I would give them the Star Wheel Press album and they would come back again. Sometimes it would be the other way round but always at that point I had nothing in […]
So finally it’s here and what everybody will want to know is is it as good as the first album and was it worth the wait. The first answer is easy. It could never “feel” as good as the first album as no second album ever can if it follows a genuinely stunning debut. This […]
Classic Avalanche shirt with logo and avalanche records scotland underneath but with “Well I stepped into an avalanche” on the back Limited to 30 of each size online and quoting from the first line of the Leonard Cohen song via Nick Cave the shop was named after. These shirts will ship as soon as possible […]
So there will be celebrations from November 30th through to next summer when the first shop opened. We will be highlighting some of our favourite albums over the last 30 years and there will lots of stuff limited to 30. There will of course be t-shirts, the first of which is the Avalanche logo […]
So on 30th November 1983 I decided to open a record shop preferably next to the University. However I had no money so embarked on selling second hand records and pop merchandise I made myself at markets to raise the cash needed. The pop merchandise mainly consisted of block mounted pictures oF Duran Duran, members of […]
Sadly our three month pop up shop and collaboration with Artisan Roast has come to an end. They did a fantastic job I think everybody would agree and it was good to finish on a high with The Epstein Espresso Session. In particular I’d like to thank Tonia for all her help and support. I’m […]
The impact can be shown in two simple examples. Avalanche raved about how good Waxahatchee were even before they had signed a UK deal tipped off by one of our customers. After the initial order including customer orders we could only stock the limited edition blue vinyl of the new album one at a time. […]
How much vinyl can you stock if you aren’t paying for it ? Well obviously quite a lot. HMV/FOPP’s “new deal” in which they only pay for stock once it is sold has repercussions at several levels. First of all they needn’t worry about when anything they order will sell. Any independent worth their salt will […]
1. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away 3. The National – Trouble Will Find Me 4. Quickbeam – Quickbeam 5. Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest 6. Public Service Broadcasting – Inform Educate Entertain 7. Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart 8. […]
Avalanche’s best selling local band this year finally play their first shop gig.
