Peter Paphides

Why are you offering 20% of all your already-released still-available albums over this Bank Holiday weekend? Did you price them too high in the first place? Not at all. As anyone who has bought our releases will tell you, we shoehorn value into every aspect of our releases. In most cases that means gatefold sleeves, printed inners, lavish liner notes, remastering jobs by the very best in the business, such as Miles Showell at Abbey Road and Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.

Pete Paphides · Follow 7 min read · -- If my wife had decided to take a shower instead of a bath on the night of March 7th 2021, last night might not have happened. Because if she had taken a shower when we’d gone upstairs to bed, thereby pausing the programme we had planned to watch, I wouldn’t have had 15 minutes to kill. And if hadn’t had 15 minutes to kill, I wouldn’t have had the idea of making a playlist celebrating all the indiepop tunes I used to loved so much back in 1986/87.

Pete Paphides · Follow 8 min read · -- Let me tell you about my two favourite single releases of 1983. The first was Blue Monday by New Order, released on March 7th. Then six months later, Aztec Camera put out Oblivious for the second time. Yes, there was an earlier version of Oblivious that came out on Rough Trade in January. But the one I really loved was the WEA reissue that autumn.