Over the last few months I've been visiting some wonderful old independent record stores, dropping off copies of our record. Sadly, our time at Rough Trade East is finished, but I'm pleased and proud to have these great stores stocking our record.
The Diskery on Bromsgrove Street in Birmingham is a fantastic store, stuffed with vinyl. Most of its staff have worked there for over forty years and are all friendly and knowledgeable.
I don't normally do announcements of this kind but I just noticed on this statistics thing that the number of people who read this blog on a monthly basis was a little higher than I thought, so I thought this might be a good place to post this information that is related to the kind of thing I usually write about.
It's not a new story by now, but in case you didn't know, PIAS, the UK's largest distributor of independent music had it's stock destroyed in a fire last Monday.
I know there are a lot of other ways that you could help this situation and that there are a whole lot of other issues related to what happened last week that demand people's attention first, but this is a good way to help a lot of independent record labels, who, since you're reading this blog, I assume must be close to your area of interest.
basically, if you're music shopping, have a look at the lists compiled on the excellent Quietus page, or Nialler 9. They are lists of the labels and artists affected by this fire. As you can see, I am talking about this a little late, but I figured, since I have an audience, it might be a good thing to promote. Happy shopping!
It's been a while since I last wrote on here because it's been a while since I last had something new to talk about. I just got done working at a long and busy exhibition and I'm getting back to some of my own work.
I've been asked to contribute a piece of work to a publication by Black Horse Road Studio, on the subject of working/living spaces. I've started making collections (as above) of my items from my work space and things from my surrounding living space, which feed into the work I make. I'm hoping this will turn into something more, wherein the objects bear some connection, but at the moment I'm just enjoying composing disparate objects into one board.
The above is inspired partly by a painting by Miro and by the collections of Camilla Engman, though I'm hoping that they will become more my own after a bit more experimenting. It may not look like this at all by the end.
Recently, the instrumental 'scout hut' from Tiger & Panda's Dowry 10" was played on Edinburgh Man Podcast # 65, which I recommend in general.
the original Spillers, image from here
image from here
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