Blag - The Left For Dead Blog

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 sixes steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 06/04/22 Creative juice and Here Comes Synchronicity Again... So there I was, out with some musician friends the other night and it got me musing about all of the great musicians and artists and CREATIVE JUICE I've worked alongside in record shops over the past...

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 seven of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 07/04/22 Bullshot Quango *not a Kaiser Chiefs side project. Everyone who has worked in a record shop will have stories about selling a particular album or single because they chose to play it in the shop, and if you're a fan of the...

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 nine of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 09/04/22 LFD AOTY ACRONYM ATROCITY On the day we've seen the BIGGEST album of the year so far, WET LEG (and undoubtedly a NAILED-ON contender for Album Of The Year in a slew of the music rags) flying off the racks I figured...

***SPOILER ALERT*** So I says to The Wife, 'I can't be a miserable git ALL the time, I'm gonna tell the chocolate story', and she sighs and goes, ' You've told that story sooooooo many times I want a divorce'. So I've done a keyword search for the word 'chocolate'. Loads of stuff, have I got a Ty Segall fetish?, and more pertinently, what's chocolate got to do with Ty Segall? But no, nothing about the story I'm about to tell. Maybe The Wife is just looking for an excuse...ahem. Anyway, no one scrolls down pages and pages of this...

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 Ten of this steaming pile of japery, kinghell boring bullshit and contentious nonsense... 10/04/22 It's A Comblimation Thing... I'd hazard a guess that NOW, you need to know a lot less about music to work in, or even open a record shop, as opposed to way back when, BEFORE the invention of The Internet, and the...