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Record Store Day – Here’s to Revolver Records, Bristol.

As a teenager in the eighties my hometown seemed blessed with a surprising variety of record shops, but I always saw Revolver as the one true emporium of cool.

April 15, 2011 in Books, Bristol, Music, Records.

An ill-fated encounter between a pompous git* and a pram.

Why is it that a certain kind of person in this country finds it so hard to accept that children exist? It’s not as if they are a rarity. If you have or know children, you’ve probably encountered the type. They’re often male, but not exclusively, usually fairly well-off and long past their own youth.…

February 2, 2011 in Bookshops, London, Uncategorized.

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