In the end, I didn’t go, but I did go yesterday.

My local shop (in a garden shed), enthused by the RSD turnout, has taken the decision to devote more space to new vinyl, and so is having a clearance sale. I […]

I’m just back from taking my brother in law and his lady punting in Cambridge. We set off early to avoid the Bank Holiday crowds – we were right to, by the time we got back to port late morning, there were no more […]

Includes multiple Steven Wilson remixes and 5.1 surround, etc.

The new car park is already over a mile away, on the A360, in the swanky new (opened 2013) visitor centre.

Try the Maxell disc repair kit first – a lot cheaper than a new player.

As they say in the We Buy Vinyl podcast, it should be renamed Record Company Day. Hiked-up prices, low margins and no sale or return make it financially risky.

My local store is a fraction of the size of yours […]

“Record Store Day 2014 Limited Edition
Given away free to customers as a promotional item.
Curated by The Line of Best Fit. ”

Curated? At least they didn’t have the cheek to charge for it.

*spits feathers*

It’s my standard anti-Apple joke, a reposte to years of “just buy a Mac”.

Fiio is a brand of high-quality digital music player, a multiple of the quality at a fraction of the cost of an iPod.

It won’t be of […]

I had the misfortune to call our MIS support line this morning.

Me: “That intranet site was working when I went home yesterday, but it doesn’t this morning. Has something changed?”

Support: “Have you tried […]

Or, as I found out to my cost, Parcelforce vans.

Always pay the extra tenner for legal protection, folks.

I hire a local Baptist Chapel a few times each year for gigs and have to pay event Public Liability Insurance. As a place of worship, it apparently doesn’t need any.

It makes me wonder what would happen if one […]

It made me think, do they not have insurance? And then, are the RC church not one of the richest organisations in the world?

@SteveT there’s also a bootleg CD of their 1983 Rockpalast set (DMR lineup at the time included both horns and strings). I can ‘help’.

Can you imagine if it was you who’d flicked the dog end, or not done the screws in the plug up tight enough? I bet someone is feeling very guilty today.

Bobbins

Knowing this, or any otherwise useless trivia, is why we are the AW.

Useless cherry-blossom related fact:

The famous cherry blossom festival in Japan is down to a Victorian Englishman who went there and “saved” the native cherry trees by taking cuttings from one and propagating […]

Human League vs. Heaven 17

Culture Club (well, Boy George) v anybody and everybody
Duran Duran v Kajagoogoo

16 CD + 2 BD box including Steven Wilson mixes released 31st May.

Details at SDE.