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by Marvin Phythian. Hey there musos, audiophiles and melomaniacs, here at RSR we’ve decided to give Desert island discs a 21st century reality check with our own version - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!  In our first and possibly last episode of this nature we spoke to Gavin Searle from the Kings of Frog Island… As the Zoom kicks in I see a silhouette with a background of space-age purple neon led lights before the focus adjusts to reveal Gavin Searle, lead singer and studio producer for the best Leicester band you may never have heard of. The Kings of Frog Island,...

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...