Kevin

We’ll have Flutes in the shop for an in-store on Saturday 15th December at 4pm 

I’m always telling bands they should try to get as many outlets as possible for their CDs and we certainly always refuse exclusivity as I just don’t think it is the right way forward. As I’ve said before there is a plan currently for Avalanche to supply 15 of our best selling albums to 30 […]

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING if that is the path they want to choose. My point is that if a band really does want to get word of mouth and create a buzz on their album then it is far better to get their album into as many shops as they can and have their loyal fans go […]

Several comments ran along the lines of why can’t we be more like FOPP, Rough Trade, Piccadilly or Monorail as they seem to be doing OK. FOPP are of course owned by HMV who in any other circumstances wouldn’t still be trading but are being kept afloat by the record companies with terms independent shops […]

Best to end the night with some home grown talent that can hold their own with the last couple of posts. 

So somebody else made the same comments about Gashcat and thought the guy in the background looked like John Galm and so I found this. Excellent !

Sometimes the obvious comparisons are the best. Very good in its own right though.

My thoughts are that we aren’t going to make enough from the shop to justify the location in the current economic climate. Much could change if we involve other businesses or if as many predict HMV/FOPP fold sooner rather than later but these are not things to be relied on. I’m mainly looking at other […]

“Your generation, not the one before you, not the one after you — your generation — decided to steal music.”

By far the most popular suggestion so far has been that we should have a cafe mostly by people who seem oblivious that we have already tried the idea. Even when we were busier most of the business was after 4pm. Lunch time trade for several years now seems to have been lost to people […]