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No guarantees but good if customers can let me know what they would like. Once again we’ll be participating in Record Store Day, releasing a number of special records, exclusively through independent shops on Saturday the 21st of April 2012. Here’s what we have in store: Smugglers Way Flexi Zine Smugglers Way is Domino and Ribbon’s […]

Update : now Wednesday ! My phone line at home is down until at least Tuesday so I can only access emails etc in the shop which means I’ll be even further behind than normal as I do most of my work at home before and after work. Couldn’t have happened at a worse time […]

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat x If anyone’s going past Falkirk Municipal Building car park, could you look for my hat please? Seriously, this one: . seriously, if anyone can find my hat , I’ll write you a song / buy you some drinks / whatever … I really love(d?) that hat, and I think I dropped […]

I read one retail analysist recently who didn’t understand how even if footfall went up for bricks and mortar shops sales would not increase accordingly or might even go down. As with the music industry which is now full of people who think that just by saying they are a consultant, management company etc etc […]

After Olaf’s comments on Facebook about the lack of support he receives re funding for Born To Be Wide and Wide Days I felt it was the right time to comment myself.   The problem with the funding process going by what I see from the outside is that giving out funding is a job […]

Yes that is a Leonard Cohen reference again. Obviously in business you need to be in control of your own destiny as much as possible and again if events conspire against you there is only so much that can be done. Key to any decisions about Avalanche after Christmas was the future of HMV/FOPP. There […]

HMV slams ‘idiotic’ offshore tax dodging “For many years we have said we would like to see a level playing field,” said Fox (CEO HMV).   http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/hmv-slams-idiotic-offshore-tax-dodging/091203  Simon Fox’s claim to have wanted a level playing field for many years was an interesting one. Given HMV’s well documented recent troubles resulting in terms and support […]

I have already received dozens of phone calls and emails this year from labels and bands asking me why shops don’t stock their releases or don’t sell many if they do. Often they are from fairly big labels and bands who understandably think they should be doing better. While bands, labels and indeed distributors are […]

Even at our most popular in-stores coinciding with an artist’s release we now sell very little as people will have already bought from the artist/label (online or at a gig/launch), downloaded or from a VAT dodging online seller. We are now selling less than a quarter of the amount we sold at similar in-stores two […]