Remembering Jingles
We've mentioned this before but as it's Record Store Day we thought it would be good to mention the indeÂpendÂent music shop we used to get stuff from in East…
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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…
Zavvi, 2007–2008
Happy Christmas! Zavvi has gone into adminÂisÂtraÂtion, with 2500 jobs on the line and the immediate future of British music looking VERY SHODDY. (International readers: Zavvi is/was one of the…
A Weekend Woolworths Adventure
If you read our piece about Woolworths last week you'll remember our first record buying experÂiÂence: spending ten quid on a hundred bargain bin 7" singles in the East Grinstead branch…
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,…
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…
Any single as long as it's Oasis
Killing time in town a couple of weeks ago we took an opporÂtunÂity to pop into Zavvi on Oxford Steet. It used to be Virgin, but now it's not. We…
Stickerwatch: Taio Cruz — 'Departure'
"Hello. I am a shopper in Woolworths thinking of buying a compact disc of the urbanelecÂtroÂsoultronic variety, but I can't decide which one to go for. I'll tell you what…
Our favourite Christmas card
Amazing — after our investÂigÂaÂtion 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…