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It’s all about making an effort, you can’t just vaguely ‘want it’. I’ve had loads of white whales over the years, mostly obscure/forgotten archival material, and would spend a lot of time hunting it all down – one newspaper mugshot took me the best part of a year to unearth, and I’ve contacted...

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That and the two Missing Dog comps are on my "records I'll probably die never owning", so will have to make do with the crappy MP3 versions. I would post the London Calling mix of "Do You Like This Beat" by Auto Bahn, but all the versions on YT are the wrong one.

Mermaids are real, one tried to lure me to my death once - sucked for her that I swam for Barnet Copthall Under-11s. Come to think of it, I saw a prostitute with a lion's face in Amsterdam once ('saw' as in saw her from the street, not 'booked a sesh with her', before someone strikes up). These...

* John Balance - well, see how jinxed that adopted 'magickal' surname turned out. * Marc Bolan's "easy as picking FOXes from a tree" crash premonition. * This bit of online Cocteau Twins fan lore: * Ian Stewart killed by Mossad Kwikfit agent. * Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) hospitalised after...

It's quite dull, tbh. I was on the Delta flight in a window seat in the 2-seat side row and this bloke who looked like a bigger/balder Tony Soprano with a paisley short-sleeved shirt sat next to me and liberally spread himself over both seats. By this stage, I was so knackered and relieved to...

OK, he might have been 210.

First time I went to New Orleans, I had to go via Fort Worth, TX - unfortunately, a felon with my name had just done something naughty and then jumped state, so I was detained for hours. At one point, the chubby, friendly Latina fed interviewing me put a box of latex gloves on the table, so I...

Oh fucking ignore me, it was Selectadisc. The one down the bottom opposite Daddy Kool was Sister Ray.

Yep. About half-way up Maybe Sounds of the Universe took it over after the early 2000s? But it definitely wasn't that around '97-'05

No...it's driving me nuts now. They used to have black and orange bags...CDs at the front, and vinyl a short step down near the counter. This is where Alzheimers gets you.

Yeah, I think so. I had it on some cruddy None Night Of Flexipop CD-R and actually thought it was a trailblazing early '80s obscurity...obviously not!

On Berwick St...you had Daddy Kool and Selectadisc (and a ropey MVE) at the bottom, just past the fruit market. But then if you walked towards Tottenham Ct Rd, past Agent Provocateur, there was a massive record shop on the right...what was it called? Can't remember, but I walked in one day and...

This is the one I liked...memories of Old St roundabout at 3.30am stamped on my brain

Anyone know where I can score a snide copy of Photoshop (ie, actually on my PC, not a subscription). This was such a doddle back with Torrents and decent IT managers, but I'm out of the loop.

Yes. Don't bother.