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MERRY CHRISTMAS

December 24, 2012

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You can look forward to more reviews in 2013 including Factory Benelux (summary preview), Naked Lunch, Alasdair Roberts and many more.

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Hi, I’m Paul. A lifelong music fan since 1979 when I got my first record player and very first single (Get Down by Gene Chandler). Up until Thursday 18th May 2023, this record plus 8000 others and thousands of CDs, books, keepsakes that I had built up into a treasured collection were destroyed in a critical fire at Access Self-storage in Byfleet, Surrey (UK). Due to having to move from a rented flat in London into a smaller place in Surrey in 2012, I chose this location for convenience with the eventual plan to convert some of these records, CDs and memorabilia into an online business. After 35 years in music retail, I knew I could make it work. Sadly, that plan has all but been dashed by this awful event. I have lost valuable box-sets and far less valuable dance, disco and reggae singles that were personal favourites, along with my XTC, Factory, 4AD, Crepuscule, Greensleeves, New Order, Magazine, Durutti Column, Talk talk etc etc. It's only stuff. But it was my stuff and it cost a

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