Pinnacle Distribution’s take on this new PWL artist  

These recording have grown into one of the most wonderful stories of all time, cock-ups, profanities and rank amaturism  

We have been out and about with our trusty cameras again as I am sure you can imagine for the wide variety of interviewees that this project warrants. The last few have included the excellent guitarist Pierre Bensusan who we tracked down to the Half Moon pub in Putney where he was performing for two nights.…

Del Roll and life before the Edwin Shirley Trucking Company  

Roger St Pierre recalls the start of Beacon Records

David Shrimpton explains the joys of the manual stock figures when all you had was an abacus to work it out with and then explains the stages necessary for making a piece of vinyl come alive and sparkle on your record player

Here is a little clip to tell you about our latest book

Derek was the MD at A&M records in a period when they signed a huge number of British artists like Joan Armatrading, Police, Squeeze, Supertramp and many more. Before that however he worked for a music publisher or two and learnt the business as it was then. Here he tells us what used to happen:

We have had the pleasure of interviewing one of the great guitarists of this country recently, Chris Spedding. The purpose was twofold as we had questions about his years in Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments for the film we are making about Pete Brown, then secondly we have embarked on a programme about the Session players…

The new book ‘Over Under Sideways Down’ culled from various of these interviews is now out there in the big wide world – via our very own www.MagpieDirect.com and also through Kindle and Amazon so you have no excuse not to find it and enjoy it. Graham Jones, the author of ‘Last Shop Standing’ was…