Fopp goes under

Music and DVD retail chain Fopp went into administration yesterday (June 29th), and all stores were closed with immediate effect. The full story is at the BBC website here.
Although the usual story of downloads affecting CD sales was reeled out, it seems that Fopp’s main problem was bone-headed management at the highest level. In a [...]

Song of the Day: SHANNON - Let The Music Play (1983)

In the mid eighties, I would sometimes enliven a dead Saturday afternoon by going to the Queensmere Centre in Slough to watch the breakdancers and boddy poppers. There was usually a healthy crew there with their customised ghetto blasters, each a little smaller than an aircraft carrier. It was there that I first heard this track, [...]