![]() ![]() A beautiful way to start off this already stressful year.RECOMMENDED. based harpist recorded some of these songs in 2017 & during the pandemic in 2020, often improvised & recorded without much preparation. This is a compilation of both of the previously released “Collected Pieces” volumes onto one LP or CD set. MARY LATTIMORE – Collected Pieces LP/CD (Ghostly) limited color or black vinyl Their records have been difficult to come by for a long time & this yellow vinyl pressing won’t last. ed.Ģ5TH anniversary reissue of this legendary 1996 album by the Australian trio DIRTY THREE. RECOMMENDED!ĭIRTY THREE – Horses Stories: 25th Anniversary LP (Touch and Go) yellow vinyl ltd. Another deep and revelatory set of music from Marshall. In the next part of this series I'll be back on more familiar ground for this blog, looking at how my spell at Reckless got me back into working with computers again.CAT POWER – Covers LP/CD (Domino) limited gold vinylĬhan Marshall returns for her third album of covers, appropriately titled “Covers”, this time reinterpreting a newer vintage of artists like LANA DEL REY and FRANK OCEAN alongside classics by BOB SEGER, NICO / JACKSON BROWNE and THE REPLACEMENTS among others. Whenever Wee-Wee Reggae Man had to sign any paperwork about exchanging records, he always ended up signing bits of paper with 'Wee-Wee Reggae Man' actually printed on them, since that was his official designation in the customer database! We never found out Wee-Wee Reggae Man's real name. He was called Wee-Wee Reggae Man for a reason - you could smell him before you saw him. What he used to do was come into the store every other day, clutching the 7" single he had bought last time, and then explain that he didn't like it, so could he swap it for another one.įor a while staff would argue with him that they could only buy it back for two-thirds of the price in exchange.īut ultimately, we learnt that it was easier to just let him use the shop as a lending library, one £1.99 reggae 7" single after another, since he always brought them back in reasonable condition, and, perhaps more importantly, it minimised the amount of time he was in the store. He used to come into the branches in Berwick Street once or twice a week, and buy a second-hand reggae 7" single. However, we also had a few regular customers that we never got any identifying documents from, but who we, in order to keep the paper-trail going, invented a persona for. We got to know some of our more 'exotic' customers rather too well, like Ben the crazy Jewish lawyer, or Malcolm, who used to dance naked for Danielle Dax, or Barry, the man obsessed by albums released on the Vertigo spiral label. Unfortunately, the wig wearing wanker got to see this for himself whilst I was in the middle of a transaction with him on the only terminal that could be overlooked! Staff would often be quite frank on this field, warning other staff with comments like 'I think this guy is a thief' or 'Always argues about prices', or 'Smells of piss'. These were recorded in the shop's admin system, alongside an 'any other' field. To sell second-hand records, tapes or CDs to Reckless, the shop insisted that a customer produce two forms of ID with proof of name and address. This could be a real problem if customers ever got to see the ' personal' details that were maintained about them on the company database. ![]() ![]() I particularly remember the purchaser of a rare early red label version of The Beatles 'Love Me Do' 7" reporting it being "lost" in the post.Īll of the retail computer terminal screens in the shop were positioned so that they couldn't be seen by customers. Although I suppose I did get to skive outside it, having a ciggie, quite a few times each week.Įvery now and then something would go wrong - I'd send the wrong LP to the wrong person, or something would just get lost in the post. I saw far too much of the inside of Upper Street's post office for a start. In the end he went off in a huff, seemingly convinced that I was some kind of delusional fantasist.Īnd of course, working in a mail order department of a shop had more downsides than just occasionally being mistaken for someone who was homeless and short of cash. He then got a bit shirty with me when I kept insisting that it was OK thanks, I had a job, I work in that record shop over there. Once I was woken up by some well meaning bloke offering me some casual labour work on a building site down the road. In fact, on more than one occasion I fell asleep on Islington Green during lunch. ![]() When I wasn't in the store emulating the Jack Black character in that film, I used to spend most of my lunch hours either in a greasy spoon cafe on nearby Cross Street, or sitting around on Islington Green. There were strictly no miserable record shop staff allowed however. ![]()
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