March 02, 2004

Shopping in Soho in Scary Detail.

Tim

Bought: Red Astaire 12"


Brian

Bought: Monkees CD (apparently includes rare stuff among the hits), The Animals Singles CD, Keith West "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" 7", Paul Jones "Thinkin' Ain't for me" 7".

About Brian: Brian is trying to launch his own AM radio station and is passionate about Mono recordings. He got ripped off to the tune of $5700 by someone in the states who promised to build him an AM transmitter and is now building his own ("should have built it myself straight away") The cost of setting up an AM pirate legally is substantially lower than an FM station. Brian reminisces fondly about the days of Radio Caroline.


Mel

Bought: Ani Di Franco CD.


Tom

Bought: Vintage Dread Volume 2 Double LP.


Milo

Bought: A vintage New Wave Compilation LP (festooned with old stickers), Greasy Rock'N'Roll Compilation LP.


Julian

Bought: Salsoul presents Disco Funk Flavours LP.


Coilin

Bought: Winleys Disco Breaks Vol.3 LP, Densel Williams LP, Eryka Badhu 12".

About Coilin: Over from Ireland. He can't find these things over there. Apologies to Coilin for not putting the correct accents on his name.


George

Bought: Starsailor 10"


Peter

Bought: Some Heavy Metal CDs, including the Sworn Enemy CD.

About Peter: Peter is a Heavy Metal DJ from Oxford.

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Many thanks to the above. Keep shopping dudes!

Posted by Woebot at March 2, 2004 08:46 PM
Comments

Hi,
I miss the old days trawling down Berwick Street for tunes. Its nice to see pictures that it hasn't changed all that much. Did you ever go into ambient soho when it was there across from Sister Ray? Also Choci's used to get in the occassional banger.

Posted by: hector at March 3, 2004 01:58 AM

nice one - i must admit i cant see someone walk down the street with a 12" bag without wanting to ask what's in it, nosey cant that i am.

Posted by: jed at March 3, 2004 02:04 AM

fantastic tag to your trip through london.

Posted by: philT at March 3, 2004 06:11 AM

like a lovely, more honest version of similar things they do in style mags where everyone pretends the record they've bought is desperately cool.

and that their shoes come from a little place they know in albuquerque.

Posted by: dubversion at March 3, 2004 01:10 PM

If I weren't such an idle slacker and got around to buying a digital camera I would be very tempted to do a similar visual vox pop in the W11 area, though suspect that most punters will probably have bought lots of heavy metal CDs out of MVE...

Posted by: Marcello Carlin at March 4, 2004 11:21 AM

makes me want to jump out of my cube and go record shopping RIGHT NOW! looks like it was a nice day too... i thought london was sposed to be grey?

Posted by: alokem at March 4, 2004 03:19 PM

hey when's the next photo-shoot? me and boyfriend want to show off our kool 12" and CD purchases in london. then we will speed off to burger king to eat. hehehe

Posted by: nathalie at March 10, 2004 10:48 AM