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In the end it was the rates that killed us in the Grassmarket. The landlord was very good about the rent and didn’t put it up when he should have but I feel very badly let down by Edinburgh Council. I’d been told they had spent 4 million pounds on the “improvements” and hoped to soon […]

It is imperative that we resurface soon but at the same time I’m still considering a range of options and future challenges more of which over the next week. What I had decided is that we needed a small central base in Edinburgh that people could visit meaning we could take our time with the […]

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.   Broken Records – Weights and Pulleys 7.  Hamish James Hawk – Aznavour 8.  Jack White – Lazaretto 9.   James Yorkston – Cellardyke Recording […]

As many of you will know we don’t accept money to promote artists on the website and I’ve refused all offers of links as well. However it has been put to me that the Avalanche site which is already a focus for Scottish music in particular as well as being known for promoting new music […]

Many thanks for all the comments and there is a general consensus as to what people want. Achieving it will be a little harder ! Overall suggestions weren’t a million miles from what we did in the Grassmarket. At the core Avalanche selling new and used vinyl but still some CDs, posters and a large […]

In 30 years of Avalanche it has never been about the money. It was always about the music and more importantly new music. Not necessarily Scottish music just new music. Good, interesting, exciting new music. As someone who started listening to and buying music in the 70s I moved from Wizzard and The Sweet as […]

I think I’ve exhausted all the avenues that need exploring and while there is by no means a definitive answer the options are as clear as they are ever going to be. I must thank everybody for all the input and now is the time to see what is feasible. The challenges to the very […]

We will be at the Platform 2 market in the Waverley Station with a large selection of new vinyl, a stunning collection of used vinyl we have just acquired and our usual selection of local/Scottish bands. The used vinyl is nearly all mint and includes many titles from Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Captain […]

So what has been learned in our hiatus. Well mostly it has confirmed what I already knew. Vinyl is bloody heavy to carry about, it will always rain when you don’t want it to and people have a very strange grasp on publicity especially in the age of social media. Most of all even well […]