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woolworths

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  • The Briefing

Remembering Jingles

We've mentioned this before but as it's Record Store Day we thought it would be good to mention the inde­pend­ent music shop we used to get stuff from in East…
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  • The Briefing

There are days when you just want to pack everything up and go home.

They're days when everything seems pointless. Days when you wonder why you bother. Days when you just want to go home, sit quietly in an empty room for three hours…
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  • The Briefing

Zavvi, 2007–2008

Happy Christmas! Zavvi has gone into admin­is­tra­tion, with 2500 jobs on the line and the immediate future of British music looking VERY SHODDY. (International readers: Zavvi is/was one of the…
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  • The Briefing

A Weekend Woolworths Adventure

If you read our piece about Woolworths last week you'll remember our first record buying exper­i­ence: spending ten quid on a hundred bargain bin 7" singles in the East Grinstead branch…
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Cheerio, Woolworths

Like many of you, we bought our first singles in Woolworths. In the late 80s we'd somehow inherited a cousin's old hi-fi and the East Grinstead branch of Woolies had,…
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  • The Briefing

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE NEW GIRLS ALOUD ALBUM (yet)

Some 30 second clips of each track from the new Girls Aloud album, 'Out Of Control', are knocking about online now. Apparently they are or were on the Woolworths website…
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Any single as long as it's Oasis

Killing time in town a couple of weeks ago we took an oppor­tun­ity to pop into Zavvi on Oxford Steet. It used to be Virgin, but now it's not. We…
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Music ends, world shrugs

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Stickerwatch: Taio Cruz — 'Departure'

"Hello. I am a shopper in Woolworths thinking of buying a compact disc of the urbanelec­tro­soultronic variety, but I can't decide which one to go for. I'll tell you what…
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Our favourite Christmas card

Amazing — after our invest­ig­a­tion of the Virgin Megastores / zavvi 'rebrand', we have received a Christmas card from zavvi. Before you start to worry, please do not be fooled or…
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  • Zavvi, 2007–2008
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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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    Sarah Harding
  • 3
    "You asked me not to leave, well here I am again"
  • 4
    The 2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist announced
  • 5
    New Music Friday: Georgia Twinn's done a song about a moth
  • 6
    New Music Friday: Julia Michaels has purchased, or hired, a chainsaw
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