The reach of Deadbeat was bizarre in the extreme. Every town I got pissed in I found somewhere to stock it and the beautiful people of Liverpool pointed me to 69a. Its moved now to 75 Renshaw Street, but its still the place I send people to when they're going down to Liverpool. They sold Deadbeats, Deadbeat tapes and even the single. Its a must visit whenever you're in the city.
With vinyl making such a return in the UK its so sad that shops like One up in Aberdeen finally gave up the ghost in 2013. Again they were so good to us, stocking stuff that we'd send up by post. We got bands from Aberdeen sending us tapes or singles and we got to review them and hopefully get them to a bigger audience. All of it because the guys sold a handful of Deadbeats for us.
Groucho's for me is the quintessential record shop and this year celebrated its 40th anniversary in August. It was a mere 6 year old when they first stocked Deadbeat. I remember ogling Groucho's colour printer and wondering if we could put a colour Deadbeat out. Of course we couldn't. It cost more for one sheet than it did for a Deadbeat! I would dream of one day having a colour printer and here we are 34 years on and we've got the internet. Groucho did so much for us and like Brian at the TSB when you were humphing Deadbeats around the country wondering why you bothered, there'd be £3.20 to collect and you could go off and get pissed. That's why we bothered! Thanks again Groucho.
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