The original plan had been to have a presence in the Tron Church when it reopened in September and work that in tandem with our shop in St Mary’s Street. Unfortunately the Tron market had a change in their own plan and decided to not open until November and have a Christmas market. It was […]
I’m asked a lot about what Avalanche’s plans are which in a way is nice as it assumes we don’t just stay still and are always looking to move forward but the honest answer at the moment is I’m not sure. I am fairly sure the simple shop format isn’t the best use of my […]
As Edinburgh’s figures for August show all is not well with Edinburgh retail with this from Essential Edinburgh Edinburgh retail sales were down -4.8% in August 2015 compared to this month in 2014. This means that Edinburgh’s retailers performed worse than their Scottish peers as the Scottish average fell only -2.4% on a year earlier; […]
Feel free to reply [email protected] Hi there Avalanche, I’m writing from Still Films in Dublin. We’re an independent film production company making a documentary about the Glasgow music scene of the ‘90s. More specifically, we’re bringing Mogwai and some of that crew, Chemikal Underground etc, down memory lane and tracing the steps of some of their […]
While more and more people use the Avalanche site and our social media platforms as a resource to discover Scottish bands they may not have heard of we now sell less and less for the very obvious reason that music is now so easily available for free online. Visitors to the shop will often comment […]
New location – 21, St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh Never fear while we leave the Tron for a while after Sunday due to the Jazz + Fringe Festivals we reappear just down the road at St Mary’s Street. This is a new project, not just a pop up while we wait to return to the Tron […]
x Thanks to the very generous people at Little, Brown Book and Mute we are able to offer a fantastic selection of goodies relating to the Stuard David book on the formative years of Belle & Sebastian (actually the blurb says Scottish indie sensation Belle & Sebastian) “In the All-Night Cafe”. For the winner Signed hardback […]
x Now on sale for a bargain £6. Distributor says it is limited to 1,500 and will probably run out early next week. Track Listing 1. It Never Was The Same – The Twilight Sad 2. There’s A Girl In The Corner – Robert Smith You can buy a copy online here from the Avalanche […]
By Alastair McKay | 19 June 2015 As that great punk rocker, Marcel Proust noted, remembrance of things past is not necessarily a remembrance of things as they were. Big Gold Dream, a documentary by Grant McPhee, re-imagines the musical history of the post-punk period as it unfolded in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and makes a […]
The Cas Rock Edinburgh’s historic West Port: Most notable for Burke & Hare, strip bars and… The Cas Rock. When seminal West Port punk bar The Lord Darnley was taken over in 1992, a name change followed. The bar was refurbished and changed to The Cas Rock Café – the café part swiftly dropped following […]
