emdeme Newcastle1077 contributions 1 Egg tarts disappointing Jan 2019 • couples As part of our tour of egg tart shops we passed Hoixe and saw the tarts in the window. They were not on a warmer like the better ones all were so that they tasted oven fresh. These had a wat...
Gather together some good friends and take a walk through the streets. This is what many young people in China enjoy doing when they visit a new city. To them, city walk means “hanging around the city” on foot. They often exp...
Norderslag festival every year, has a brilliant long running venue, Vera, and some great record shops… more so than Edinburgh in my experience anyway… I think that’s about it, theres probably been some other short term things as well. ++ Where does the name the Arctic Circle come from...
The band recorded a flexi in 1986 which was sold in the shops and given away free withHelden fanzine. In 1987 the track “Breadwinner” appeared on the First Things First sampler LPon Keith McCormack’s One By One label. In June 1987 they recorded a popularsession for the Dave Fanning S...
Lola:That dress was pretty much standard daywear for me back then. Vintage dresses from Backlash or charity shops. Black DM boots were my most expensive item. Hernandez:That red paisley shirt I’m wearing is the one Me and Dean Martin sang about on ‘Me and My Paisley Shirt’. ...
In 1999, I married Miki and started Cherry Letter with a bass player Masafumi Hiramatsu. ++ Did Chain Letter get much attention from the radio or press? I don’t think so. But some records shops really liked my songs, and helped me a lot. ...
So I was a secondhand vinyl buyer for Japanese shops for a while, then dealing them myself running a regular catalogue for Japanese customers. Which was a lot more profitable than doing Sugarfrost! But after a while, the Japanese ‘guitar pop’ scene also died out and no one was buying ...
Record shops though, having gone through a similar decline to the point where there were only a handful of very specialist ones left in London are now going through something of a renaissance thanks largely to the revival of vinyl amongst the younger generations. There is still a thriving music...
The record shops were pretty good but I’d mostly buy second hand from Ronnies in the market. He had lots of ex jukebox records from the hotels, and some albums too. I remember buying Trout Mask Replica for £1.25! I still have it of course, but I never properly looked after my ...
One thing that was shared on Youtube is a video of Richard Shops playing solo in Leicester as part of the Claws Out Rally Against Clause 28. There are other bands in the video of course, it lasts about an hour, but the opening act is Richard, so that’s super cool to see. If you...