All the latest news from Avalanche Records Edinburgh
Time away from running the shop just about every waking hour has given me the time to think I was looking for. However I wasn’t just interested in market stalls, pop-up shops and curated spaces but also all the options available to artists these days when trying to firstly reach the public with their music […]
The two big sellers of the year battling it out at the top ! 1. Withered Hand – New Gods 2. Mogwai – Rave Tapes 3. PAWS – Youth Culture Forever 4. Broken Records – Weights and Pulleys 5. Jack White – Lazaretto 6. Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes 7. Hamish James Hawk – Aznavour […]
As many of you will know Avalanche launched at Cafe Voltaire to coincide with their new opening hours and menu. However as some of you have commented there seems to have been a distinct lack of food ! Fear not the plans for food have not changed but have been delayed due to the classic […]
Loads of vinyl, small + fly posters + still some CDs. Looks the part !
The most interesting development in this “vinyl revival” from my perspective has been how people look through records and to some extent why they look through records. Yes we have new vinyl but you don’t need Avalanche for that. Every man and his dog has jumped on that bandwagon. Visitors want to come and buy […]
Every album £10 – p+p £3.95 for one, £4.95 for two, £5.95 for three or more. No charge if you want to arrange to collect. Payable by PayPal to [email protected] I’ll remove titles as they are sold Low – Christmas Bill Callahan – Have Fun With God Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe Ed Harcourt – Time […]
As I’ve said previously I wanted any new site for Avalanche to be radically different from what we had done before. I had a couple of enquiries from folk seriously looking at creating a venue, cafe, bar and potentially a record shop from scratch but even if they went ahead it would be some time […]
So I can finally reveal that one of the other projects we have been working on is providing the new Platform 2 market with a very special music element the fourth Friday of every month starting on June 27th. Approximately a third of the entire market will be curated by Avalanche and we will be […]
While there may be no definite announcement just yet the thinking behind Avalanche’s future has at least become clear There are two very different types of customers. Those who will always look to visit Avalanche/record shops if they are in Edinburgh and regulars who have supported the shop for many years. Then there are those […]
