It’s time to partially close down the blog for the period over Christmas and New Year. This time around I’m going to put up a re-posting from times gone by, and I’ll try my best to have all of them feature musicians whose appearances have been infrequent.
This dates from 26 December 2014
THE DAY THE BARGAIN HUNTERS COME OUT IN FORCE
The day after Christmas can sometimes be a bit of an anti-climax. I hope it is not the case with you dear readers.
The folk I feel sorry for are those in the retail sector. They probably finished at 6pm on Christmas Eve after about three or four weeks in a row without a day off, during which time they dealt with customers who were clueless and often rude. I certainly saw some supermarket check-out staff get a mouthful of abuse because the shop had the temerity to have run out of some foodstuffs and those who left it till the last-minute were disappointed and in some cases angry.
Today, many of those hard-pressed workers will have had to go to their place of employment at stupid o’clock to get their shops and stores ready for those who still think that the best bargains in retail world are to be had on 26 December, and so they queue up for hours, often in the the miserable cold and wet, and then have a mad dash inside when the doors open.
I guarantee there will be footage on the news later on.
Over here, 26th December is referred to as Boxing Day. Thought I’d find a track with a very tenuous link to the theme of boxing for today.
It was one of three tunes on a belter of a CD single from 1990:-
mp3 : Happy Mondays – W.F.L. (Vince Clarke mix)
mp3 : Happy Mondays – W.F.L. (Think About The Future)
mp3 : Happy Mondays and Karl Denver – Lazyitis – one armed boxer
Enjoy.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 