On Saturday afternoon, Geoff Sharkey is playing
Closing Down: Viva La Revolution Records, Diss, Norfolk - 21st January 2006
It's the end of an era. Over the last 10 years, Nosher has collected somewhere in the region of 1,000 CDs - at least 700 of which came from the great independent record shop "Revolution Records" in Diss, including around 500 that were second-hand. It had become very much an enjoyable part of a Saturday to go in, buy a handful of CDs and then hang out for bit. A few weeks before Wes had been on the turntables playing Pink Floyd's 24-minute track "Meddle", which we both wigged out to, much to the bemusement of members of staff and passers-by. Sadly, as most people seem to either buy only top-twenty shite from some supermarket, or download 128kbps crap off the internet; there's less of a place for somewhere like Revs, with its random second-hand stuff and some amazingly weird left-field Indie that would have remained unheard otherwise. To commiserate the closing-down, Nosher is invited along with a whole bunch of other regulars to a "do" in the shop on the last Saturday of its existence. Playing a short set before her later appearance at the Yaxley acoustic music evening is Alex Hill, who played Revs last July with the Cracking Daisies, and Nosher is pursaded to do a quick turn on a Yamaha organ. This place will be sorely missed.
next album: Three Nights of Music: Cord, Yaxley and the Tilting Sky, Norfolk and Suffolk - 21st January 2006
previous album: Cambridge Bins and Little Chef Dereliction, Kentford, Suffolk - 21st January 2006
Punters browse the half-price sale
The Sharkeys do some music
Vinyl is inspected
People mill around scavenging reduced stock
A stack of vinyl LPs
Geoff Sharkey amongst the records
Geoff Sharkey
Hazel looks taken by surprise
There's a flea market on the market place
There's tons of food and beer laid on
Quiche and sandwiches
Random piles of CDs
Alex Hill plays a set in the evening
The Yamaha organg in place
Local Mere Quacks artist Mike Webb
Alex Hill after a song
Another regular gives the nibbles the thumbs-up
Alex Hill sings
Alex Hill in Revolution Records
Hazel pours a glass of wine
The evening event
Lou helps out on the 'bar'
A couple of regulars chat
Wayne Flatman models a very rare Revs t-shirt
Steamy windows: the front of Revs
More browsing
Lou and Hazel
More regulars
Lou chats to a regular
Mike Webb checks something out
Random 10p vinyl records
Mike Webb looks at CDs
The scene in Revolution Records
Wayne Flatman finds something amusing
Hazel is presented with a card
Wes gives the card thumbs up
Mike Webb and Nigel over a case of CDs
Wes pretends to play Bruce Springsteen's Fender
Wes's mate and fellow-regular has a go too
Posters and an armchair await their destiny
The beer is running out
The front of Revolution Records
The corner of a window display
A Beatles poster
More random music merchandise
Nosher's bike in the corner of the shop
A view over the organ
Mark's girlfriend, Mark, Hazel and Wes
Mark cues up the next track
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On Saturday afternoon, Geoff Sharkey is playing
On Saturday afternoon, Geoff Sharkey is playing
Punters browse the half-price sale
The Sharkeys do some music
Vinyl is inspected
People mill around scavenging reduced stock
A stack of vinyl LPs
Geoff Sharkey amongst the records
Geoff Sharkey
Hazel looks taken by surprise
There's a flea market on the market place
There's tons of food and beer laid on
Quiche and sandwiches
Random piles of CDs
Alex Hill plays a set in the evening
The Yamaha organg in place
Local Mere Quacks artist Mike Webb
Alex Hill after a song
Another regular gives the nibbles the thumbs-up
Alex Hill sings
Alex Hill in Revolution Records
Hazel pours a glass of wine
The evening event
Lou helps out on the 'bar'
A couple of regulars chat
Wayne Flatman models a very rare Revs t-shirt
Steamy windows: the front of Revs
More browsing
Lou and Hazel
More regulars
Lou chats to a regular
Mike Webb checks something out
Random 10p vinyl records
Mike Webb looks at CDs
The scene in Revolution Records
Wayne Flatman finds something amusing
Hazel is presented with a card
Wes gives the card thumbs up
Mike Webb and Nigel over a case of CDs
Wes pretends to play Bruce Springsteen's Fender
Wes's mate and fellow-regular has a go too
Posters and an armchair await their destiny
The beer is running out
The front of Revolution Records
The corner of a window display
A Beatles poster
More random music merchandise
Nosher's bike in the corner of the shop
A view over the organ
Mark's girlfriend, Mark, Hazel and Wes
Mark cues up the next track