Bit of a weird day today. took a long time to get not that much done. Part of this was cos the not one, not two, but three interviews about the Madingley Fundraiser. Im stoked that people are taking interest. But i find it bizarre that a local paper, or in fact, all the local papers, would want to cover this so fully, but dont cover the the fact Kids In Glass Houses or Mystery Jets are playing Kingston or whatever, but so be it…
So we had a photoshoot for the Kingston Informer. The highlight of this was having Clement Marfo & The Frontline and most of the banquet staff posing together outside the shop. Clement proved he was gonna become a star by the way he refused to get out of the way for the bus. Pretty jokes. Then me and him (as the leaders of our respective gangs) had a one on one photo. Clean cut black youth vs scruffy white and white bearded 30-something. I hope this is as striking an image as it was in my head. And i also guess this is what makes the appeal important. a cross sections of society who give a shit. Maybe. Hopefully.
The latter part of today was tied up with meeting with Bacchus (who may finally be sorting themselves out) and then the Madina Lake show.
You may or may not know that Matt from Madina Lake got beat up whilst stepping in as a hero at home, to a wife getting, erm, wife-beaten. He’s had multiple brain surgery, appears to be getting well, but he obvs couldnt tour but the shows went on without him. The three left from Madina Lake made up for it. A really good show, and all our staff and all their crew did their jobs perfect, but it was nowhere near as busy as i’d hoped. In fact we lost a massive fee on it, but of all the shows to lose money on, this was probably the best one, as im glad the money has gone to a band that need it (for matthew’s medical bills).
At least all the crew were safe. Your Time Is Mine opened it and did well and i thought The Wild had a little something which could see them big in a year or so. Strong front girl…
Shop-wise we got the new Sky Larkin album in today. its well good and im stoked for their shows on Thursday,

and late in the day we got copies of the new old Matt Skiba (of Alkaline Trio) release. We’ve sold lots of these already.

good times a plenty. and to think there was a time we were talking about not even opening on a Tuesday…
































































