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Electric Eden - Public Service Announcement

Beezer's picture

Happy New Year. I hope you're all well.

Just to let the London lot know that Rob Young's book on British Folk Music, 'Electric Eden', is stacked up by the tills in the Earlham Street branch of Fopp for £3 a go.

A saving on the list price of £17.99 of, er... (is it 14?) yes £14.99.

As the guy behind the till who served me said, 'It'll have cost them more than 3 quid to print it'. Quite so. Nonetheless there they are.

This has already made my week. More so than finding myself in the queue at WH Smiths in Maidenhead yesterday standing behind Timmy Mallett. Oh yes.

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Ooh

I was thinking of treating myself to it from Amazon this month.

Thank you so much (although a trip to Fopp in January is a very bad idea).

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JoLean | 4 January 2011 - 7:56pm

You're welcome

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Beezer | 4 January 2011 - 9:06pm

I hope Rob Young's

not on a net royalty and making something off that deal.

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MyAmericanMate | 4 January 2011 - 8:28pm

I agree

Huge bargain to the likes of me, but I wouldn't want him not to benefit.

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Beezer | 4 January 2011 - 9:05pm

Yes, don't want to deprive him

However, if he is reading, I will happily buy him a slap-up meal, copious amounts of alcohol and take him for a weekend away to a destination of his choice to recompense.

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JoLean | 4 January 2011 - 8:41pm

Well

I got it for Christmas and dig it muchly

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lovelyian | 4 January 2011 - 9:23pm

I got it for Christmas too

so technically it didn't cost me anything! I haven't started it yet but it looks great however and the good reviews here and elsewhere are making me look forward to reading it very much. I have to say that my interest in this type of music was started by a thread on this blog about Anne Briggs who I had not heard anything about until then.

At that price, I might start giving it as a present to others now!

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Ozmium | 4 January 2011 - 11:33pm

Anyone buying Electric Eden...

...might find this Spotify playlist, based on the discography at the end of the book, useful.

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Seamus | 4 January 2011 - 11:37pm

Seamus,...

..for putting this together: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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AdamRob | 5 January 2011 - 12:49am

wow yes fabulous work

many thanks Seamus

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Ozmium | 5 January 2011 - 1:06am

Thank You

And this is why I love Spotify...

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DrJ | 5 January 2011 - 1:40am

Thanks

... and Rob Young says thanks too!

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borsuk | 6 January 2011 - 8:38pm

That...

...has made my day.

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Seamus | 7 January 2011 - 4:08pm

Great playlist.

Ta very much. Although a bit distraught that he has seen that and yet hasn't seen fit to take me up on my offer of a dirty weekend away...oh well.

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JoLean | 7 January 2011 - 4:35pm

Two copies

One for me.
And one for Dad, who wasn't expecting it.

Full (Amazon) price. And I don't begrudge it. It's a good book, and I got the recommendation from the Podcast.

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sitheref2409 | 5 January 2011 - 2:03am

Thanks

Stopped in last night after work to pick one up. I had started reading Seasons They Change from Jawbone Press, but found it a bit too factual to really get into - I kept having to stop reading to look up songs on Spotify. From the feel of the first few chapters Electric Eden hangs together better.
Bit worried about Fopp though - seems like every time I go in there they have more DVDs and less music. I really hope they're not going to go the way of HMV.

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borsuk | 5 January 2011 - 8:39pm

Botheration

I was in Fopp in Earlham Street yesterday and they have sold out. The woman I asked was very helpful and, after spending a good five minutes seeing if they had any copies 'below the stairs', offered to check if any more were coming in. I thanked her, but that wasn't much use to me as I'm in Essex and only visit the west end once every couple of months, but it does suggest that you may be lucky next time you look.

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Gatz | 9 January 2011 - 5:13pm
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