Blag - The Left For Dead Blog
RSD Cleardown Day 26
As threatened, throughout April - in celebration of Record Store Day - I offer up a daily post related to all things record shop. And if any of it sounds like a Manifesto, consider it good practice for my election campaign next year. Day Twenty Six of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 26/04/22 Frenzy Blip, Misery Porn and The Proctologist's Finger Welcome 'Deaders to the first RSD related post written in speedos, reclining in the Ground Zero afterglow of Record Store Day, the mushroom cloud dissipating in the Spring sunshine, a blip of frenzy...
RSD Countdown Day 22
As threatened, throughout April - in celebration of Record Store Day - I offer up a daily post related to all things record shop. And if any of it sounds like a Manifesto, consider it good practice for my election campaign next year. Day Twenty Two of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 22/04/22 Record Store Day Eve... It's an early night tonight and an early start (05.30 for me) tomorrow morning and then maybe the longest and busiest day of the year for every independent record shop in the country. Whether you're interested in...
RSD Countdown Day 21
As threatened, throughout April - in celebration of Record Store Day - I offer up a daily post related to all things record shop. And if any of it sounds like a Manifesto, consider it good practice for my election campaign next year. Day Twenty One of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 21/04/22 Friendly User It's around this time every year, a few days before The Big Day, when indie record shop owners the World over fall into fits of apoplectic rage or morbid torpor - depending on their predisposition to editing Excel spreadsheets...
RSD Countdown Day 20
As threatened, throughout April - in celebration of Record Store Day - I offer up a daily post related to all things record shop. And if any of it sounds like a Manifesto, consider it good practice for my election campaign next year. Day Twenty of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 20/04/22 Wish List After RSD there's always a question thrown at the shops by the RSD organisers - 'What would you like to see released next RSD?' I would always prefer new and exclusive (ie only ever available physically on an RSD release)...
RSD Countdown Day 19
Nineteen days into my 'daily countdown to RSD', Fussbook clobbered me with a ban, citing that my post violated their 'Human Trafficking' rules. A couple of years ago, I faced a similar ban for posting a photo of the front cover of Roxy Music's Country Life record sleeve. So here I am, migrating my previous posts to this blog, withdrawing my free content from the Fussbook platform. Here is a reproduction of my Day 19 post, as best as I can remember it (Fussbook deletes banned posts pending the possibility of randomized review) As threatened, throughout April - in celebration...