Avalanche
West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Essential port of call for the indie fan. It opened in 1983, just in time to stock records by the Shop Assistants, the Pastels and Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes. Used to sell off white labels and Mayking test pressings for pennies each. It moved along the road to bigger premises later, and in the '90s had several branches in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Still trading, its Edinburgh operation is now in the Grassmarket. Highly recommended. Comment: dn784533 45cat forum
Not quite my scene as they say, although great for indie stuff. I'm sure they're famous for having said some not nice things about Oasis at one time and I think Oasis paid them a visit a few years later.I did visit the branch they had at the top of Cockburn Street a number of times when I was going through a stage of purchasing Byrds & Beachboys cds and before they moved to the Grassmarket they were doing a clearout and I picked up some 60's singles, which was strange because I don't remember them selling anything like that before. Haven't been to their Grassmarket branch yet so must check it out. Comment: fabgear66 45cat forum.
(August 4, 2015) I was a regular visitor to the West Nicholson Street branch throughout the early to mid 90's before I moved back South of the border. A very friendly shop. The owner Kevin was always pleasant, I got on well with him , possibly helped by the fact we were both Englishmen living in Scotland. As others have said the shop was very Indie orientated in those days but they always had some decent Rock and Punk vinyl too. I found a lot of stuff there over the years. They were always reasonable on prices for the rare records too. They also had a shop at Dundas Street (where I once got a huge job lot of unused early 80's 7" and 12" singles at 50p each from an unsorted stockpile in the back room) as well as a tiny outlet in Lady Lawson Street where I remember finding a Led Zeppelin Four purple vinyl LP for 20 quid. Comment: Gerry.
Not quite my scene as they say, although great for indie stuff. I'm sure they're famous for having said some not nice things about Oasis at one time and I think Oasis paid them a visit a few years later.I did visit the branch they had at the top of Cockburn Street a number of times when I was going through a stage of purchasing Byrds & Beachboys cds and before they moved to the Grassmarket they were doing a clearout and I picked up some 60's singles, which was strange because I don't remember them selling anything like that before. Haven't been to their Grassmarket branch yet so must check it out. Comment: fabgear66 45cat forum.
(August 4, 2015) I was a regular visitor to the West Nicholson Street branch throughout the early to mid 90's before I moved back South of the border. A very friendly shop. The owner Kevin was always pleasant, I got on well with him , possibly helped by the fact we were both Englishmen living in Scotland. As others have said the shop was very Indie orientated in those days but they always had some decent Rock and Punk vinyl too. I found a lot of stuff there over the years. They were always reasonable on prices for the rare records too. They also had a shop at Dundas Street (where I once got a huge job lot of unused early 80's 7" and 12" singles at 50p each from an unsorted stockpile in the back room) as well as a tiny outlet in Lady Lawson Street where I remember finding a Led Zeppelin Four purple vinyl LP for 20 quid. Comment: Gerry.
Avalanche 63 Cockburn Street.
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Avalanche 17 West Nicolson Street. This shop was used in the record shop scenes of Richard Jobson’s 2003 film Sixteen Years Of Alcohol. The scene in question can be seen at 02:08 in the youtube clip below. Thank you to you tube user SerrallongaBCN for this clip.
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