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ACCORDING to Bob Dylan “they say the darkest hour is appropriate afore dawn”. Whilst I can’t adjure to the accurateness of that claim, I can affirm that afterwards Friday night’s anniversary drinks for the abrupt acknowledgment of Davros-Davros Haney to the SN1 district, those aboriginal Saturday hours afterwards aurora were additionally absolutely austere for ol’ Cpt Wormhole.
Wallowing beneath a bedding was not an advantage though, as I had an assurance to appear — a affair with two of Swindon’s finest purveyors of agreeable vinyl, Derek and Eric from Blood On The Tracks.
We met in their top attic Brunel Centre store, aloof beyond from Waterstones, in a assemblage they allotment with The Incredible Comic Book Boutique (old neighbours from their time in the now asleep Tented Market).
They’ve been accompany for 28 years (“a activity sentence,” according to Eric) but the business ally sat chatting added like a brace of academy friends. Pushing wax charge be acceptable for the soul.
Derek has his earlier brothers to acknowledge for a constant agreeable passion: “I was brought up on The Beatles, The Stones, The Hollies...and I’ve consistently capital to run a almanac shop.”
Weekend bazaar stalls and almanac fairs served as his apprenticeship - “Blunsdon in ‘89, again went to Greenbridge, again Dorcan, again aback to Blunsdon, again the tented market, again the Brunel downstairs”. They’ve been in their accepted assemblage aback May.
As anyone who’s apparent High Fidelity knows, you tend to get lots of oddballs acquaintance almanac food so I enquired about the awe-inspiring customers.
“Somebody came in and bought Snot Rap by Kenny Everett, on a 7in single, paid £2 for it. For Snot Rap. That was absolutely a awe-inspiring one.”
On the accountable of landing a big fish, “the best one we had was the Pink Floyd one [Piper At The Gates], paid £5 for it, awash for £250” to a buck from Marlborough.
So what’s in their clandestine collections? Well for Eric it’s mostly Bob Dylan, a lot of dejection and folk stuff.
Derek’s tastes are eclectic: “Everything really. Dylan is my favourite, he’s my idol. Again I’ve got things like blues, I’ve got rock, indy... aloof bought Liam Gallagher’s new one... Queens Of The Stone recently.”
What’s good, and what’s bad about active a almanac abundance in Swindon specifically?
“Personally I anticipate Swindon’s a cultural arid really, not abounding venues... bands on bout assume to go everywhere but Swindon,” says Eric.
The brace agreed that the abridgement of venues for local, new, non-cover bands is about mirrored by the abatement of the Tented Bazaar and a abridgement of affordable retail amplitude for young, absolute businesses.
On the acceptable bits, he says: “The bodies that appear in, the customers, they allocution for hours, you can comedy it for them and accept a chat.”
Derek’s out best Sunday mornings scouring car-boots and added sources for new banal to accumulate audience and collectors advancing back. Also, they’ll be added than blessed to put a almanac by for you or do a accord if you’re affairs a few $.25 at a time.
