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We now have Edinburgh Popfest tickets for sale and there is a free Ballboy single with each ticket or weekend pass bought

Edinburgh various venues

22nd – 24th October, 7pm/3pm/2pm

www.edinburghpopfest.co.uk

Friday – Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh Art College Doors at 7pm   £7
Saturday – The GRV – Doors at 3pm   £12
Sunday – The Lot in the Grassmarket. Doors at 2pm (early finish at 7pm)    £7

Weekend Pass  £25.00

There is a £1 booking fee for day tickets and £2 for the weekend pass

Over 18s only

Friday 22 October @ The Wee Red Bar / 7:15 10:30, doors at 7pm / DJ’s til 3am

Ballboy
Withered Hand
The Leg
Randolph’s Leap

Saturday 23rd October

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
The Just Joans
Kid Canaveral
Internet Forever
Pocketbooks
Be Like Pablo
Red Shoe Diaries
plus very special guests to open the day – Bearsuit!
(more band tbc)

**First band on stage 3.20pm**

Sunday 24th October

Darren Hayman
Bobby McGees
Bobby Baby (Swe)
Eagleowl
Gordon McIntyre (ballboy acoustic)

First band on stage 2.30pm

WE STRONGLY ADVISE YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS IN PLENTY OF TIME TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. AS WITH THE SOLD OUT RETREAT FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND MANY LEFT IT TO THE LAST MINUTE AND NOT EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO GET A TICKET.

Thanks again to both festivals for their support.

Some customers have found a problem with the check out process. Hopefully it will be sorted this week but if you do have a problem please feel free to place your order over the phone on 0131 225 3939. For international sales email orders on avalancherecords@hotmail.co.uk and we will get in touch about payment.  Thanks  Kevin

After a very quiet summer for new releases (few seemed to want to compete with the World Cup) we are putting together a bumper package for our album club. Apart fron the ubiquitous Arcade Fire new album all our recent best sellers have heavily featured Scottish artists be it the self released Kid Canaveral album or the nationally distributed album by The Burns Unit. An honourable mention should also go to Trips and Falls showing Montreal has more to offer than just Arcade Fire ! The much anticipated Savings and Loan album is scheduled for the end of the year and I think it is safe to say that it will be our final pick of the year. Album club members should expect more news very soon.

No, not really, just wanted your attention. We were asked to supply our top ten for last Sundays Observer, here it is in full…. shock entry at number one for Meursault!

Meursault

All Creatures Will Make Merry

Following the critical acclaim of the band’s debut album, Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues, Local Edinburgh band have recorded All Creatures Will Make Merry in the winter of 2009

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The lovely Pearl and the Puppets  played to an excited crowd at avalnache records. Here is video evidence to prove it. Watch, Enjoy, Buy her single.

The next installment of the Avalanche Records Album Club, is a wonderful album from the brother of J. Tillman (he of Fleet Foxes fame) it is called Pearly Gate Music and is a lovely little album we think should get lots of recognition. Although it isn’t a Scottish act which we try to specialise on this here site. It is excellent and not getting the recognition it truly deserves. And since it is our choice for the album club this edition, we are selling it online at a  special price of £9.99 while the stocks do last.

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Pearl and the Puppets to play an instore at Avalanche Records on the 6th of May at 5pm

Three years ago Pearl was just another music-loving shopgirl (Woolworths) and student (primary school teacher). She was classically trained (on woodwind) and could bash out a tune (on piano). But she’d never so much as picked up a guitar. Then, aged 19, she bought a guitar. She taught herself how to play it and quickly wrote some songs. Within a matter of months she’d set up a myspace and posted four demos. Within a week, the first record label contacted her.

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Our good friends Eagleowl are playing at the Roxy Room in Edinburgh to celebrate the launch of their new EP. It takes place  on the 3rd of May at 7.30pm and tickets are £5. You can buy them in advance only from Avalanche Records as of today.