DJ Readman History of Record Shop Series and More

I'm back reselling on a platform. Vinted, i'm using as a testing ground to see how things go.  Vinyl first then CDs which really surprised me for not what sells but what they sell for. The Cure I found a 4 track Desintergration, 4 track album promo on CD. I put it up for £10 and within 2 minutes someone offered £7 and sold.   The one surprised I would say was Dio, Master of the Moon.  This was released in 2004. Uploaded it and went within 7 hours on a Friday night. This is only the second CD that has gone for press I put it up for. Slipknot Lets talkbbout last night.  I found " We are Not Your Kind"  CD.  I knew it would sell and gain interest.  Just gone 10pm last after people started seeing it, I thought someone's going to get that.  Sure enough bought it for the price I put on it £6. The buyer told be this the only one he didn't have :) Pink Floyd Echoes, I thought would go fast but it turned out to be a slow burner.  Sealed and slipc...

All this back and fourth from Canada has made it even harder to find work and wife has as well.  I had a great two years at Coop located down Queensway in Banbury.  When I returned I knew I couldn't just slot back into the workforce so I turned to what I love, reselling music.  I have never stopped reselling I just kept it on a small scale.  After my shop, record fairs and markets stalls, i stopping doing that and tried other avenues. Because of trips to Canada, work dried up I found  Vinted I heard about it from customers coming through Mid-counties Coop so I thought I would try it. I started buying vinyl and I thought, since CDs were kind of more around? I decided while I was looking for vinyl I'll sell CDs as well. I didn't really know if CDs would sell at all even the obvious genres like Rock and Punk. Well, CDs are selling which I'm kind of surprised but I'm glad they are. It's just the matter digging for the gold. Yes, Hendrix, Taylor Swift( Yes, I thought...

Rose White - Baby Girl   When I heard the song her voice reminded me of someone, Rosin Murphy, lead singer from Moloko, same kind of smooth sassy, husky voice. This has a very nice flow to it, jazz sound with her voice i hear PJ Harvy cross Amy Whitehouse and a tad of Swing Out Sister. I would say a jazz pop version of Moloko. I can see her colouration with Moloko / Rosin if given the opportunity.  With her wonderful husky voice this has a lot of depth and a story to tell. http://www.rosewhiteldn.com/ http://www.facebook.com/rosewhiteldn http://www.instagram.com/rosewhiteldn http://www.tiktok.com/@rosewhite ldn ( Song Courtesy of Deuce Promotion http://www.deucemusic.com/ Deuce Music

I worked here at the Banbury Odeon for a while in 2023 and its the best group of people I have worked with including Reggie Lartey, Sophie @cosplayshino Cinema addict Peter Keyes, Psychedelic music lover Dane Humpries, Esme Vessey, and the rest of the crew. After only a year of opening (Literally) it’s closing.  As a person who is fascinated with history, I find it almost criminal that's happening. I went to see Guardians of the Galazy Vol3 in screen one on Saturday afternoon. It’s the biggest screen in town with great sound and comfy seating.  Screen two is upstairs a bit smaller but still great. I paid £5 via the online app to purchase my ticket. After working there, I realised it made me a cinema goer once again and I miss working with crew. There is a multiplex in town, which is great because the town has been crying out for one.  My question is, why couldn't you the odeon built one? Makes sense to me? There were three cinemas in The Palace, The Grand, and if I recall...

 I love quality, creative, out-of-the-box, dark-as-it-can-be-made, music. I used to run an online radio show then switched to Youtube to save my voice. This the latest video I have done.  I use the available artwork combine that with the motion of a turntable to create the illusion. 

                                                                            Website                                           Alternative Visuals is the name of my new website.  Having a website would centralise everything and give more details per project.  Since I got my domain my website has been viewed.  My fee structure is listed and the website. I will take on any project. I have been creating videos since around the early 2010s. From Visual Cards to Serial Episodes. My first episode of an ongoing series about record shops coming soon.       I use cameras for seperate recording audio track as well as different directional shots.   

Youtube is the growing global network similar to Sky but on demand version. I love the platform. To me its the digital version of Terrestrial TV. For a whole range of artists and visual creators Youtube allows, it amazing. It’s not perfect, but nothing is. It would be interesting if Youtube applied this music chart system approach to the platform? Say if you have 10 million people watching youtube in a space of three hours on 20 channels. The subscribe button acts as the portal for channels entering the chart. All new likes act as the climbing up and down numbers. The view count acts as a growth scale to see who gets noticed by sponsors ( As they are doing now I think?). Normally how Youtube reacts this way is by releasing regular content mainly on a weekly basis. You have to be polite with certain words depending in the content you are releasing ( What I learned from channel Popcorned Plannet) but depends whats going on in the world.  YouTube being a global network, it does get ef...

  Like many people I assumed this was either a cleaning issue or a charging issue? As many people do I looked on Google search and Youtube for a solution. Watch the video to find out what I discovered Thanks to channel Macrumours for the one of the very few videos I found on Youtube search that saved me from buying a new pair.  I thought they were beyond repair.   

These are my clients, most popular and around experimental youtube playlists Client's Videos History of Record Shop Series Edmonton Visits  Out of all on my channel my most viewed  Audio Technica Series My Most Viewed  

Introduction I love editing and have fun with footage and audio.  My name is Paul Readman, I am a freelance audio / video editor  This began  when I was broadcasting  live on net radio.  I edited various interviews for my Bandcamp and I was told I have  good ear audio editing. I began by uploading gig footage, interviews, news Vlogs and other videos on Youtube.  I saw this as a progression for my skills to grow and   experiments I like the idea of using footage for effects, overlayering as well as adding effects to footage.  I also try to recycle footage where I can and shot fresh / on location How I Roll I get a project I listen to what is required.  If needed I  source footage. I take footage and match the quality to every other I have or near it If required I upscale to near as 4k as possible Sometimes you come across footage that can add a visual curve to the story. I then edit a dra ft.  Feedback is roughly around 90%...

 This might work it this might not. This will be sourced from videos a make. This will not be radio shows like I have recorded in that past. This will be an audio documentary of sorts. We shall see

As always these things start off as ideas. I just opened a blog and write down what I could remember.  I  knew somewhere along the line there would be a video of some kind. Why the hell not. Let's make a documentary? At first I didn't know how to approach this.  With the footage and audio I have record it became pretty clear.   I have filmed at Strummer Room Records and Mac’s Music Store, both in Banbury.  When I get to Edmonton, Canada, I will be filming in shops there. I have had already a reply back from one shop owner. The goal is to find out the local history. I am noticing independent traders opening up in many places. We are in the aftermath of what is the worst global virus to hit the earth in a century. This has seemingly lit a fire under people. The is the full version of what I filmed  at Mac’s Music Store, one of the latest walk in music stores to make it’s mark The promo for the Pop Up shop that Strummer Room Records, opens on a regular basis t...

Wandering around Google Search and found this? WELCOME. No one knows everything about vinyl, but I have to say I recently realised that I know more about  music in terms of whats valuable and whats not  than I thought. I like supporting local record shops and I was looking through a box in Strummer Room Records, where I buy vinyl from and thinking when I was looking at a box of original Drum & Bass vinyl “Thats  good, that should be priced more”  I was talking to the  owner and I mentioned about the labels and sub labels and I mentioned the boxes of a dance vinyl he had as well. I’m a reseller by heart  its in my blood. I sorted some vinyl that I selected some titles that I knew that could be pushed more. I ran my own record shop Demand Records and I am still known for that. It's kinds like being a Youtuber. I know lot of about many sounds and what to look for.   I was pretty surprised to be honest what your memory stores. Vinyl is my main music f...

This is my “ Fan Alternative” to the official video video by Floral Image. This is how I promote music. This one in particular I wanted to the idea of “ Floating around” I sourced footage and recycled footage, edited it and this the result. Want something like this I will complete for £50. Takes a few days. Floral Image Bandcamp

I thought  because my wife and two cats are there and hopefully living there soon, I thought I would do a Record Shop History for Edmonton.  The more information I receive the more this will be filled out. I’m very curious to find out of the cities history in this regard as I don’t know much about it. There will be a video on this at some point.  This will be edited as more information becomes available  HMV I just realised both Banbury and Edmonton are linked with this company. The Canadian owner of the Canadian part of this business bought the U.K side a couple of years ago. Blackbyrd Moosyik Located down Whyte Avenue,  specialising in new, pre owned vinyl and home grown vinyl taken section which is the first one I went for.  Very spacious walk in store, very well layed out. I go here every time I go to the city Sunrise Records Located in West Edmonton Mall. Specialising in new releasesx Record Collectors Paradise. Located at 11004 150 St NW, Edmonton, A...

 I was at working when someone flew out of a door I was near as he was watching a film in a screen I was near said “ The Queens Dead” I thought he was talking about the film but no Queen Elizabeth II R.I.P Yeah it's very easy to shout your mouth off about the Royals, but if people read about the family she didn't have a choice to become Queen. She was very young and I'm guessing she had to learn her role pretty damn bloody fast. On top of that she wanted to go into the army but I'm guessing because her status she chose to be an army mechanic. I forgot about those things. I'm not a fan of the Royals but they are all born  into this life some have left if you follow these things.  It's a big family who have had a lot of high profile deaths including Diana, which in my opinion was the biggest in Royal history. The Queens husband last year at 99 and her sister Princess Margret, 20 years ago which wasn't a total surprise due to her wild lifestyle? There are FAMIL...

Since I have been helping to promote local record shops Strummer Room Records and new Mac’s Music Store here in Banbury  (One way of being involved), It occurred to me that not much attention historically is being paid towards record shops.  As a former owner of record shop Demand  Records ( still dabble with online vinyl album sales)(I miss it like crazy), I thought I would focus on this.  I realised recently that my shop is a part of. Over the decades there have been independent and chain stores. Depends where you live. The starting point is Banbury, who knows where this may lead?  I have decided to make this journey broader.  I thought to myself I am bound to get asked at some point. At the moment this is a few blogs and the start of an ongoing series on Youtube. This may lead to a documentary at some point. But not getting too far ahead of myself.                              ...

  Thank you for Contacting us regarding the Unicorn Inn, Market Place, Banbury.   The Unicorn Inn is a Grade II* Listed Building and therefore is designated as a building of high significance. The council have recently been liaising with colleagues at Historic England to enter the Unicorn inn on to the Heritage at Risk register 2022 so that this will enable access to additional expertise that Historic England can provide and enable us to work more closely going forward.   The planning history on the building shows that Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent were granted in 2016 (16/01661/F & 16/01662/LB) for the conversion of the building to residential properties. This permission was not implemented and therefore is no longer a valid permission. Further applications to renew the lapsed permission were received at the beginning of 2020 (20/00063/F & 20/00064/LB) but these were never validated and were not proceeded with. Therefore the site no longer has a...

Demand Records This was a record shop which I owned from 1984 to 2005. This was the next step from car boots which I was doing weekly. I moved into a kiosk sized place which was found by a friend of mine as I only had so much stock and rent money.  This all started up in Parson Street, Banbury.  It was a small place and I wanted to see how it did. I always wanted to run my own record shop. This ended up running for two and a half years. After that time I had to move to a new location because the business owner who owned the property where we were paying rent to was selling up.  We found a place double the size down George Street.  It turned out that I had enough stock to fill it.  I hadn’t realised I was cramming that much in the space I had been in. After I settled down and a while later, the most significant shift in business was drum and bass vinyl. The market was growing because of major events at the Sanctuary, Milton Keynes.  I can't remember how I f...

                                                                 Photo is just an example After coming back from Canada after realising the Visa I wanted in order to stay there was going to take far longer than my passport time would allow,  I am now temporarily staying with family until I can find work that can pay bills. This leads me into the next step, finding a place to live. I don't need much but I realised I need space and INTERNET. OMG do I need that. I only have net in my phone at the moment. It's amazing how much you need the net even just applying for work. Seriously, the need for the Internet is as  bad as needing electric. A small one bedroom flat is all I need.  Bills included but if that is not possible, that's fair enough. I decent shower as well. I don't want to share, I prefer my own space. E...