News — band of gypsys

by Mike Garnett. At around lunchtime on 5th January 1998 a slightly nerdy, skinny, and very cliched nineteen year old rocker walked into a small independent record shop in the centre of Birmingham. Like many students of his kind before and since, he had recently discovered the joys of vinyl and was keen to spend more of his newly-received student loan on expanding his fledgling collection. After all, who cares about bills and food and boring things like that, right?  That day, the shop was having a New Year half-price sale on most of their stock. And there was A LOT...