Blag - The Left For Dead Blog
RSD Countdown Day 1
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. So, kicking off a month of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 1/1/22 New Release Friday, Again & Yowzer! A Future Vision! In July 2015, the whole planet synchronised like a second year psychology student flat share and changed new release day from Monday to Friday. This was done to remove the situation where an album...
RSD Countdown Day 2
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 two's steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 02/04/22 What's In A Name? There's a bio of the shop kicking around which I sometimes think I should stick somewhere in the shop to qualify the shop's unwieldly/childish/confusing/crap moniker. The bio goes something like this: 'me and The Wife were in the back of...
RSD Countdown Day 3
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 three's steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 03/04/22 Scoring Free Shit! Before technology hijacked everyone's lives and COMPUTERS decided that Human Beings were surplus to requirements, music distributors and record labels had REPS - field representatives who visited the shops, CONNECTING with the buyers and selling in their product. Like with any...
RSD Countdown Day 4
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 four's steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 04/04/22 The Hole Story...(Bad) Habits...and A New Hope In 2014, somewhere along the M54 between Walsall and Birmingham, I stopped the car in a side road to do a BIG SICK. Blundering through brambles and ditches filled with Black Country soup and soggy porn rags...
RSD Countdown Day 5
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 five's steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 05/04/22 20th Century Steroid Man, and The Scandi Hippy I've got a forthcoming post about the amazing instores I've taken part in. But for context (and it's Nadir Tuesday) here's two of the worst instores I've taken part in. 1. The Chippendales, HMV Telford 1992....