Seven Days In

Walking to work this morning was very quiet, almost deathly silent. I wasn't sure whether there were any buses running until I hit...

It looks like HMV are heading for administraion again. Last time their stores were selling anything, but music is still not their core...

I hadn't really thought about before, but it's only the unusually hot weather that made me think about it. This morning I pick...

I often wander into to record shops and sometimes drop into HMV. It has improved since it went belly up but still seems t...

When I was last in Edinburgh I researched where there were any record shops in Edinburgh other than FOPP (who are owned by HMV I belie...

Around fifteen years back I started my S ong of The Salesman website and then I realised that I could ad advertising and sell related m...

Or rather, yesterday they worked in the wrong way. My first day volunteering at Oxfam with Brian, Katie , Jan and another girl who came...

The Rise Vinyl Racks Well the bad news from Worcester is that Mann Audio and Phoenix are no more, or as far as my experience goes , neve...

Hendrix and Zappa Yesterday when I was in Stratford I looked at The Vinyl Disctrict app on my Samsung and it came up with Purple Vi...

Quite a surprisingly successful day today in York with the discovery of three sort independent record shops. HMV is still lurching along and...

The Potato and Egg Shop It's over ten years since I moved into my current address and at the time I noticed a shop called "The ...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Although Alanis Morrisette got it completely wrong, I'm here in Cromford reading a book about reggae called ...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets About twenty five years ago greedy  record companies made a fortune turning people from tape and vinyl to CD on th...

I've just spent a rainy day in Worcester , despite a laborious trek to the wrong Park and Ride (but which took me where I wanted) . Amaz...

Many moons ago Music Magpie started buying CDs and DVDs from people , I wasnt sure exactly where this was going. Then That's Entertai...

With National Record Shop Day approaching I wandered down Northumberland to check out HMV, until recently your only source of music o...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets I visited HMV in Shrewsbury yesterday . I've pointed out about the drought of record shops in Salop , but foun...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets For the past couple of days I have been pottering about in Shropshire and Powys , mainly in Ludlow and Shrewsbury ...

I often listen to Brian Matthews' Sounds of the Sixties and love the fact that the only criteria is that it was a hit or released in t...

Everywhere you go now tries to foist some kind of loyalty card , with the promise that you can earn "points". The reasons for t...