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So there will be celebrations from November 30th through to next summer when the first shop opened. We will be highlighting some of our favourite albums over the last 30 years and there will lots of stuff limited to 30. There will of course be t-shirts, the first of which is the Avalanche logo […]
So on 30th November 1983 I decided to open a record shop preferably next to the University. However I had no money so embarked on selling second hand records and pop merchandise I made myself at markets to raise the cash needed. The pop merchandise mainly consisted of block mounted pictures oF Duran Duran, members of […]
Sadly our three month pop up shop and collaboration with Artisan Roast has come to an end. They did a fantastic job I think everybody would agree and it was good to finish on a high with The Epstein Espresso Session. In particular I’d like to thank Tonia for all her help and support. I’m […]
The impact can be shown in two simple examples. Avalanche raved about how good Waxahatchee were even before they had signed a UK deal tipped off by one of our customers. After the initial order including customer orders we could only stock the limited edition blue vinyl of the new album one at a time. […]
How much vinyl can you stock if you aren’t paying for it ? Well obviously quite a lot. HMV/FOPP’s “new deal” in which they only pay for stock once it is sold has repercussions at several levels. First of all they needn’t worry about when anything they order will sell. Any independent worth their salt will […]
1. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away 3. The National – Trouble Will Find Me 4. Quickbeam – Quickbeam 5. Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest 6. Public Service Broadcasting – Inform Educate Entertain 7. Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart 8. […]
Avalanche’s best selling local band this year finally play their first shop gig.
Nowadays Glasgow indie bands look forward to watching super hero movies but in the 80s Glasgow indie bands were superheroes each with their own special power
To celebrate the 4th anniversary of the release of “Good News” we will have 25 signed tour posters to give away on Saturday morning from 10.30am. First come first served and only one per customer. If you can’t make it in then you can enter an online draw by emailing with the heading […]
No surprise folk didn’t get this given Dan didn’t even realise. Our biggest ever selling album by a local artist “Good News” by Withered Hand was released four years ago on Saturday. To mark the occasion we will have some goodies to give away in the shop and something for those further afield online. […]
