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Avalanche will be at the record fair in Cafe Camino tomorrow. Lots of well priced new vinyl including two £10 boxes and some great used vinyl £3 (4 for £10) and £5 (5 for £20).Collectable vinyl too from Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan etc but not too pricey.    

Christmas party Peel session Radio 1 Peel Session Christmas Special, 2002 A Christmas video if not a Christmas song

Lots to come of what is wrong and what could be put right to help those established businesses that trade all year and don’t just pop up in the good times but what is the most positive idea to come from all those meetings I had ? For context firstly I discovered I inhabit the […]

Avalanche will be back with a stall in the Grassmarket for the next two Saturdays with a full selection of new and used vinyl as well as CDs and posters.  Lots of great vinyl now £3 or 4 for £10 and a couple of boxes just in covering most genres. Some great stuff at a […]

1.  Withered Hand – New Gods  2.  Mogwai – Rave Tapes 3.  King Creosote – From Scotland With Love 4.  Owl John – Owl John 5.  PAWS – Youth Culture Forever 6.  James Yorkston – Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society 7.  The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave 8.   […]

Apologies for the lengthy silence but there really has been nothing to report. The council given the large number of bids took longer than expected to announce a short list and to be honest given this is a multi million pound deal I was concerned given that bids are confidential what I could and couldn’t […]

1.  Withered Hand – New Gods  2.  Mogwai – Rave Tapes 3.  King Creosote – From Scotland With Love 4.  Owl John – Owl John 5.  PAWS – Youth Culture Forever 6.  James Yorkston – Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society 7.  Jack White – Lazaretto 8.  We Were Promised Jetpacks – Unravelling 9.  The Twilight […]

Some of you will remember that at the same time I took the break in the lease in our Grassmarket shop Edinburgh Council declared their support for keeping music industry related businesses in the city centre given that these days promoting music be that in shops or through gigs was not sustainable given the costs […]

Avalanche will be guests of G-TEC in the Grassmarket from 10am to 4pm with a great selection of new and used vinyl and CDs. We’ll also have a few new posters ! We will have all the latest reissues from Belle & Sebastian, Nick Cave. Modest Mouse etc at great prices as well as new releases […]

So a few people have asked if we are opening in Victoria Street and there was a plan but sadly it’s not happening . It had been suggested to me that the shop next to and belonging to Espionage would be free at least for a while and it was to be honest perfect as […]