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The first week of March we are featuring the Chemikal Underground label and the week culminates in an in-store from the wonderful Zoey Van Goey on Saturday 5th March whose new album is out on the 14th February. I’m sure that it is wonderful too but since I don’t have a copy being a mere […]

Rob St John Ziggy Campbell Thirty Pounds of Bone February 19th 2011 from 7.00pm @ Wee Red Bar Edinburgh School of Art

 I was sent an interesting link to a blog @ http://thelastrecordshop.wordpress.com/ which to be fair is quite funny. Lampooning everything from record shops to experimental music and record store day Avalanche’s move to the Grassmarket had caught their eye. Obviously well connected they knew I had threatened to provide pony rides in the Grassmarket […]

Thanks to everybody who came along today. We sold all but two of the books which was amazing and Kevin took time to chat with everybody and even had his photo taken with a tennis racket for some reason. Sadly Olaf from Born To Be Wide who had organised Kevin’s appearance was too busy elsewhere […]

Just back from seeing Kevin Cummins tonight at Born To Be Wide and he is certainly good value so if you want to hear how Joy Division could have been Manchester’s answer to Bon Jovi I would definitely pop along for his appearance in the shop tomorrow @ 1pm.

With a rather large Joy Division poster behind the coffee counter we could not have a better guest in the shop than Kevin Cummins famous not only for his photos of Joy Division but a host of other bands including The Smiths, The Stone Roses and Oasis. Kevin will be happy to answer questions about […]

Our friends over the pond are still closing down when it looked like all those that were likely to go had gone already.Vinyl Fever in Tampa, Florida (open almost 30 years) closed this weekend despite being voted one of America’s best record stores in Rolling Stone and Eastside Records a 25 year institution in Phoenix, […]