We lost Charlie at the end of last month, so this Thursday I thought we should all acknowledge what he achieved. He was the man who built those first PA systems and whose letters WEM were on so many a group’s equipment. Plus there was the Watkins Rapier guitar, the Watkins CopiCat tape echo unit…

Apple Scruffs were what they were called then

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