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Very pleased to announce our first gig in the shop with artists from our best selling albums of 2012. From time to time we will also pay tribute to our best selling artists of all time and we have a cracker to start. Randolph’s Leap will be playing songs from their top selling album but […]

Until the link is integrated with our new blog (don’t worry it will just be the same) this is the link for the new online shop Shop

I haven’t said anything more concrete before as plans were changing on a daily basis. At one point I was way behind in just about every area but a good last week in several ways has helped a lot. I always get several emails each week from those travelling to Edinburgh for the weekend making […]

Well worth reading all the way through. Legendary New York record store Dope Jams will close at the end of January 2013. Proprietors Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson made the announcement via their e-newsletter earlier today. The store, which was founded seven years ago and has its premises at 580 Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, was an oasis […]

  I’m hoping to do something with everybody in our top 10 be it an appearance or some exclusive merchandise but obviously Godspeed and Mr Cohen are unlikely to be available. I was wondering if there were any mash up experts (or amateurs) out there who fancied doing a mash up.   I’m thinking Godspeed with […]

Understandably I’ve been getting asked a lot if I still intend to close on the 6th and if I still intend to reopen. The short answer is currently still yes. Business before Christmas was poor and I just didn’t take anything like the kind of money that was needed given the stock we have. Since […]

                1.   The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know 2.   Meursault – Something for The Weakened 3.   Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah Don’t Bend Ascend 4.   Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas 5.   Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow 6. […]

I’ve been asked a lot from various sides of the music industry recently why the Avalanche chart features so many local bands and/or why other shop charts don’t. Other charts are of course based on staff picks and less often sales. First of all I haven’t had the time or the inclination to extensively check […]

A few months ago I had a visit from an interesting guy.  He was from Israel and had a way of talking as sometimes people from that country do that was quite intense. He talked about issues affecting the music industry in a very knowledgeable way and told me things as if they were certain […]