Category: Personal

  • Tamworth Record Fair

    business opportunity for ailing record shops…

    I know a lot of record shops are struggling to compete with the Competition of the internet, are suffering a fall in sales and then further have eBay and bands that selling direct.

    So this new idea of starting up a traveling ‘Record Fair’ – And charging people an entrance fee to come in and look at the stock, stock that previously would have been free for all to browse, but that would be costing rent and other overheads if stored in a traditional shop. Then price the stock a good £3/4 over what things would cost in a normal independent ‘actual’ shop, which means if you should sell something, you make a damn good profit, and if not, you’ve still made a few quid from all the browsers… who would normally have walked in, and out, for free. Win win.

    On a separate note, I went to a Record Fair in Tamworth today. Some fantastic stock there from the single stallholder in the back room of some pub, but I didn’t think £15 a CD was really a ‘Record Fair’ type price. The stock was v good though. Next one is in July apparently…

    When is a Record Fair not a fair Fair?

  • Supersonic Festival 2008

    I‘m very much looking forward to the fast approaching Supersonic Festival in Birmingham.
    Last years event really was fantastic. Dates are 11th-13th July 2008 and if I list them here, it’ll save me looking them up later.

    Supersonic Festival Poster

  • Pets Bazzaar

    Breck Road, Liverpool.

    I wonder if its still there…

    Based on a drawing from a photo I took and then lost. I never went inside of ‘Pets Bazzaar’…

    Pets Bazzaare, Breck Road, Liverpool 5 Ink & Watercolour

    I’m not completely happy with either the colouring on this or the photo of it. I either need to invest in a A3 size scanner, or start working smaller.

  • Foot tappin’ & Dance at the screamin’ festival…

    i‘ve just read of a cheaply priced [what they used to call ‘mid-price’] compilation from one of the DJ’s of the Screamin’ festival, DJ AT[?], its called Foot tappin’ & Dance at the screamin’ festival. The festival itself is celebrating its tenth year, not sure if I’ll be making it this year though, disappointingly.

    I noticed it at HMV here in the UK for £5.99 or if you’re located elsewhere, you can buy it direct from El Toro for €10.

    No sign of the promised Caroline Casey album as yet though…

  • Curfew in Wolverhampton…

    or so it seems.

    Went to see Henry Rollins do one of his spoken word shows there earlier tonight, was a great show, if a little bum numbing due to the three hour plus talk time. Entertaining thoughout though.

    The show length did also lead to a slightly confused, and not unnoticed, mass exodus while Henry was still midway through a Christopher Walken anecdote. See while the doors to the show opened at seven, and the stage time was eight-ish, the latest car park in the town, the Civic Centre car park, only opens till eleven pm, when it gets locked down for the night [I have to say it, the car park, is a fantastically dated sixties job full of leaking cement walls, overpowering lights and totaly confusing in its layout – I loved it].

    Anyway, as the choice came to a night spent wandering the streets of wolverhampton or missing the last ten minutes of the show, well, the Car Park won. If any one knows how the story ended, please drop me a line…