It may have taken almost 11 months but I do now have a Plan A on how to move forward and indeed a Plan B should events overtake us. Things are dramatically different in the music industry from even a year ago and there is no guarantee how things will look in the future whatever a shop does to safeguard its own position. Who for instance would have thought the Sony DADC warehouse would be burned to the ground with all the PIAS stock inside. Talk is now of “Armageddon January” if Christmas is not kind to HMV and the other big retailers. Surely at least the weather can’t be any worse than last year. Much more to follow.