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This programme contains
some strong language.

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Sound It Out is the only record
shop in Teesside,

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which is a massive area in the
North East of England.

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It's quite disturbing,
to tell you the truth.

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I mean, I remember loads of shops
when I was growing up

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and now there's none left at all.

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You just go onto the internet,
you go onto Google,

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type in "Teesside record shops" and
I'm the only one that spouts up.

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You'll like this one, it's good.

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There is an HMV, but we don't really
count them as record shops.

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Men like to collect,
men like music,

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men collect music,

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men go touring country for music.

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That's why
I like working here, because it's...

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It's not the ordinary people,
it's the random people.

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Now it's called the Jacksons.
The Jacksons best of or...?

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No, it's the English Jacksons not
the American Jacksons.

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They call him Mike Jackson...

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Right. He wrote the song
Blame It on the Boogie, didn't he?

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That's the one!
Have you got an LP of it?

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It's going to be something I'm going
to have to investigate.

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I can't say offhand.

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I'll pop in next Saturday.
OK, mate, I can take your number.

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It's OK. See ya. Cheers.

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There's a canny few.

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About 50,000 last count.

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So if I came in and had a really,
really specific record in mind

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would you be able to find it?

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Yup. I could probably find it
straight away.

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I know where everything is here.

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Everything? 99%.

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Have you got a copy of...

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Three Feet High And Rising?

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Nancy and Lee? Erm, no.

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I've got one Nancy Sinatra CD and
it's a Sundazed reissue from '96.

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And that is over here. On CD.

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There you go.

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Boots by Nancy.

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I knew I had one somewhere.

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I've been selling
records in Stockton for 17 years.

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Now that's frightening.

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I am completely
off the beaten track.

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The only reason you come down here
is the Job Centre's next to me.

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So you get people walking
to the Job Centre.

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There's a cheap
pub across the road.

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In fact, there's
lots of cheap pubs around me.

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INDISTINCT CHAT

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I am, yes.

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I've just heard a record in
the pub there.

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Sultans of Swing. Dire Straits.

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Have you got it in?
Or can you order it?

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I can order it, definitely.
I'll just check if I've got it in.

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Sultans of Swing. Dire Straits?
On CD or vinyl? CD.

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There's no rush, mate,
we've got all day.

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I've got all day, rather.

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It's on here.
Sultans of Swing. Beautiful!

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Money for Nothing album.

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Say that again.

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It's the first
track on that album. Is it? Yep.

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There. Sultans Of Swing.

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Oh, I can't see that.
Well, it's on there, first track.

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I'd need a magnifying
glass to see that.

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Oh, beautiful.

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Twice you've came in now and I've
sorted you straight away.

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Sorted me out, yes.

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That's £5. £5, there we are,
Thank you very much.

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If I hear any more I'll pop in.
Yes, please do.

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Thank you very much.
No problem. Thank you.

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Good service. Thank you. Bye.
Bye-bye.

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People come in and want
to speak to Tom.

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They've dealt with Tom
for the last ten or 15 years.

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He knows what they like
and they know

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that he will find something
that they like.

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Has he been on again?

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Who? Tom. No.
I'm expecting him to pop in.

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As in today? Yeah.

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Right.

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I like me music and without this,
yes, there'd still be the live gigs

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but I wouldn't be able
to source the vinyl that I want.

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And Tom can nine times out
of ten help me with that

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if it's a certain one
I'm looking for.

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It might be as exactly the
same record as I've already got

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but I am a person who will collect
seven or eight versions

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of that record because of
mis-spellings on the label

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or different coloured labels for
that particular reason.

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I mean, it's not fanatical.
I don't think.

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It's just something that
I enjoy, y'know?

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There's nothing like

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one after the other, of Quo.

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Literally, your ears are bleeding
you're bouncing up and down,

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and it takes you about a fortnight
to come down from it.

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It's great fun.

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People say I'm mad but I don't
smoke, I don't drink,

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I don't have a woman so...
What more do you want?

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I mean, I've seen Quo,
it'll be coming up...350,400 gigs.

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That is literally like an addiction.

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It's like going along
to a drug dealer and going...

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And you go to a Quo
gig and you're like...

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HE SNORTS

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About the last week before a gig
I will play continual Quo,

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for a week solid.

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It get's me in the mood, y'know?

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And you go there and you literally
come out of there

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and you're soaking wet

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because you've literally been
pogoing for about two hours solid.

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I mean, all you see
when you go to a Glasgow Quo gig

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is the front five rows are just
solid head-banging.

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That, is my...pride and joy.

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That has never, ever,
and I know this is going to

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sound absolutely gross,
but that has never been washed

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since the day it was signed.

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That is a certain
advertisement for a Mr Tom.

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Sound It Out Records.

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He has departed me of my cash
for most of this collection.

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At the end of the day, you know,

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Tom's one of very, very few people
who is still an independent.

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Like I say, you go to likes of...

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HE COUGHS
HMV.

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They're so impersonal.

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You know, it's like,
it's the old battery farm.

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Get them in, get the money off
them, get them out.

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Whereas, Tom is one of
those who is passionate.

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Every time I think of something or
an artist to order,

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I'll write it down.

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But then it just gets piled
and piled and piled up everywhere,

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as you can see.

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Is David
the one that keeps everything tidy?

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HE SIGHS

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Yes, and no.
He keeps the shop tidy.

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I have an order here.

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It looks mental as here
but I know where everything is

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and he comes in and tidies up
and I lose track of everything.

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So what about your hyper dub stuff
or your dance stuff?

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Do you not want
that in the dance section?

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It's dubstep, I don't
want to ruin the dubstep.

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I might have a purge of that cos...

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So you could just purge
the whole section.

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Is it a big thing
trying to organise the shop?

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HE SIGHS
Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's never ending.
It's all for ever changing.

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That's why it does help to brief
Tom on where I've moved stuff to

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because I just keep moving it.

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And now I can't remember
where half the things are.

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Who's in charge?

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Oh, that'll be him.

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All this work is never ending,
but it's good.

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I wouldn't change it for the world.

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I have to listen to
everything that comes in.

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Every single style of music,

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so when someone comes in and asks
for some free jazz

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I know where it is,
I know what I've got in stock.

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All the many forms of dance music
which is just...

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And rock music as well.

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There are so many different genres.

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It's just an
insane amount of genres.

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In Stockton I do sell a lot of heavy
metal because it's a hard area

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so you get like people
into heavy metal

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and you get them into
hard dance music.

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HE SIGHS

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Makina is a
made-up genre around here.

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It only exists from Newcastle
to Middlesbrough.

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It doesn't exist anywhere else in
the country, as far as I'm aware.

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Except for Spain where the majority
of the records do come from.

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It's like...

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Oh, God.

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Terrible nursery rhyme,
cheesy trance.

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Is this all on, Tom?

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Yeah.

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THUMPING DANCE MUSIC

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HE RAPS

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# Bounce with me, bounce with me

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# Feel the energy

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# Bounce with me, bounce with me

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# Feel the energy. #

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Think of a subject and then make a
rhyme about it, really.

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Most of them are about myself,
about my life,

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things I've done, stuff like that.

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Catchy things
what would stick in your head.

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Bits of what you like about things
and then put it into your rhymes.

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People can relate to them,
can't they?

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And that like you said there, just
like Mario, you know what I mean?

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Super Mario.
I'm super just like Mario.

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There are loads of ones
like that, aren't there?

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HE CONTINUES TO RAP

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I've DJd in a couple of places.

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Most times is our
mates' houses and that.

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There are loads of us,
about 20 of us one time there was.

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All 20 all fighting for
toilet space.

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All crammed in a room like this.

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All crammed in a room
smaller than this.

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I get goosebumps and that
when my mix is going tight,

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when my mix starts popping,

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popping is when both beats
hit perfectly

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and it creates like a
different sound.

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When it starts popping you get a
good buzz out of it, it's class.

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Everyone's dancing because of you,

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because he's playing the
tunes and I'm MCing.

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Proper class,
you get a good buzz off it and that.

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Teamwork thing, isn't it? Yeah.

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# You gotta bounce b-b-bounce!

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# We gotta bounce b-b-bounce!

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# B-b-bounce b-b-b-bounce! #

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Anyone can come in here and
I'll talk to anyone, you know.

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And I'll talk to them about music,
even if I don't like it or whatever,

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I'll talk to them because I
get off on music so they can tell me

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what they think of things and...

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Don't Want To Be Free,
David, did you say? Pardon?

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Don't Want To Be Free.

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Is that the single that you're
looking for, that one?

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Yeah. It was there.

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It just needs a new CD case on it.

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She's in the back, she's in the back
office on the computer.

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He's just jealous because I'm
employee of the month every month.

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Yeah.

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It's good because she'll come in

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and for all her technical and
computer stuff

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she will kick Tom's backside and make
stuff happen

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and push Tom to do stuff.

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What are you going to do about it?

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I'm just going to put stuff on.
I know but you've had it.

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Kelly, I'm not giving excuses,
right. It's really difficult.

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I know it is.

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That's why you stay back after work
when it's quiet and do it.

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It's definitely
a male obsession, as it were.

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Well, it is in here.

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I'd say 99% boys and 1% girls come
here and buy records.

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Yeah, out of every 100,
maybe one girl.

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That's terrible.

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I don't know what it is, it's the...

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Blokes do like to collect things

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and they like to keep
hold of their youth, I suppose.

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Never grow up.

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Boys don't want to grow up.

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I don't want to grow up,
it's full of responsibilities.

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There are lady collectors of vinyl

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but they are very few
and far between. Why is that?

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I don't know, I think it's
seen as a pursuit for a gentleman

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and you just go out
and go to the pub, down a few pints,

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you go to a record shop,
you buy a few.

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Where I hear these records,
I go in The Garrick.

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Yes, well, they are always playing
good stuff in there though.

243
00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,480
Yes, yes, and you'll
try your best with that other...?

244
00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,000
I've got it on my pin-board.
Pardon?

245
00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,360
I've got it on my
pin-board, don't worry.

246
00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:07,520
Oh, have you? There we are.
Thank you very much.

247
00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,720
Not a problem. Lovely job.

248
00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,520
Are you photographing me again,
darling?

249
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,720
I am, yes.

250
00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,760
Do you want any male models?
Look at this.

251
00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,000
You're a fine specimen.
HE CHUCKLES

252
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,120
I like the 60s and some 50s.

253
00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:27,800
60s, 70s and 80s.

254
00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:33,080
I'm building up
a collection of discs.

255
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,240
And do you collect vinyl?

256
00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,400
No, no, no, I gave all my vinyl away.

257
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,440
I shouldn't have because my favourite
songs were on them as well.

258
00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,440
And are you from Stockton?

259
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:50,280
Yes, I'm from Stockton, yes.
Hampton Road, Oxbridge.

260
00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,520
So if there's
any young girls out there,

261
00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,040
must be over 18, I'm available.

262
00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,880
HE LAUGHS

263
00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:00,800
Do you think that will do you?

264
00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,240
I think that's lovely.

265
00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,080
Oh, well.
I wish you the best of health.

266
00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,560
He's got a credit account.

267
00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,840
He comes in once a month and pays
£100 in each month.

268
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,960
It's just easy if I know that it's
only £100 a month.

269
00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,080
It comes from working out a budget.

270
00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,600
So you're a very loyal
Sound It Out customer?

271
00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,400
I've been buying records off Tom
for what?

272
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,280
Nearly 20 years. Nearly 20 years.

273
00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,400
It kept you out of trouble.
It keeps me out of trouble, yeah.

274
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,560
What do you do for a living?

275
00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,840
I'm an auditor.

276
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,200
Like an accountant?

277
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:12,000
I work in insurance.
Insurance auditor.

278
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,280
I don't know, it's a collection of
like the last 20 years

279
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,480
of my music listening life.

280
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,000
It's, you know, I can remember where
I was when I bought the records.

281
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,680
The first time I listened to records.

282
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,760
There are like
some records here that are just...

283
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,400
Really important.

284
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,400
Yeah.

285
00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,640
Downstairs,
I've got a CD player downstairs

286
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,480
so I listen to CDs downstairs but
this is for listening to my records.

287
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,120
They get played and go straight
back in their sleeves.

288
00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,360
They don't stay on the turntable or
anything like that.

289
00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:22,040
It's very much, listen
to then put them back into the bag.

290
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,640
How's your collection organised?

291
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,480
Alphabetically.

292
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:33,400
And all the artists are
then ordered chronologically,

293
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,000
albums and singles.

294
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,440
The collection now is so big,

295
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,080
if I want to find a record,
if it wasn't in an order,

296
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,120
you know, there's 2,000 records here,
it'll take me a while to find them.

297
00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,760
Whereas, if I wanted to listen to
mid-period David Bowie

298
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,000
I know exactly where it is.

299
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000
The Man Who Sold the World,

300
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,640
Hunky Dory,
The World Of David Bowie.

301
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,120
The reissue of The World of David
Bowie with a different cover.

302
00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:57,760
I don't know why I've
got the same songs twice.

303
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,440
Changes One, then Low, Heroes, Stage,
Lodger, Scary Monsters, Changes Two.

304
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,600
Let's Dance with the
£2 sticker on it.

305
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,360
I think I do like organising.

306
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,560
Record collections are
never finished,

307
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,080
they will only be finished
when they stop selling records

308
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,320
and I don't think that's going to
happen, so it'll never be completed.

309
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,000
I don't know what I'm going to do
when that box is full.

310
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,040
I need to find more space
because there's no more room for
records in here.

311
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,040
There's two boxes at the
top of the stairs

312
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,200
and they'll be in my room next.

313
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,880
My addiction with records
is I'm addicted to music.

314
00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:01,120
I like to
hear everything at least once.

315
00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,560
That sounds mad.

316
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,240
What is it about records?

317
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,480
Just having like for example having
the original release of something.

318
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,960
Half the guys that buy these records
probably don't play them

319
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,800
but they have got them
in their hands

320
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,480
and they're in their shelf and
they're in their label and you know.

321
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,760
With records it's never ending.

322
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:35,120
You can go on and on
and on and on.

323
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,840
I've just had a sort
out and have a few records.

324
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,520
Probably about seven. Fine, fine.

325
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,000
13, 14, 15 there.

326
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,720
That's five and ten.

327
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,120
Cheers, Graham. I'll be back.
OK, see you later. See you later.

328
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,160
It's like 80s pop stuff.

329
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,800
I can't do anything with them,
I'm afraid. The box is nice.

330
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,880
The box is worth more than
the records.

331
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,960
HE LAUGHS
Fair enough.

332
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,520
Cheers. Cheers. Thank you.

333
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,040
Unfortunately, the Beatles
ones are too scratched for me.

334
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,520
Yeah. But it was nice to see them.

335
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,320
It's just like they have
been well loved,

336
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,640
they have been
well played, you know.

337
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,960
So I can't sell them so...

338
00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,040
Do you get a lot of
people in selling?

339
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:06,720
Yes, not as much as I used to
but it's just how it goes with,

340
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,280
you know, like peoples' jobs

341
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,920
and people don't have
a record player any more.

342
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,160
That's how I get most
of my second hand stock.

343
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,480
Off sort of people like himself.

344
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,680
It's always quite heart breaking

345
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,520
sometimes when I have to go,
"No, thank you",

346
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,240
even though it's a great album,

347
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,400
but it's been well, well played.

348
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,760
I'll try to do it without taking
the whole KLF and my collection of
cobwebs down as well.

349
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,760
There you go.

350
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,040
Thank you. Not a problem.

351
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,840
What have you got?

352
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,160
It's a very obscure thrash
album from 1989, I think.

353
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,920
Do you come in here much,
in the shop?

354
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,760
Quite a lot, yeah.
What does the shop mean to you?

355
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,200
Quite a bit.

356
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,160
It's one of the only places I can
pick my relentlessly obscure music.

357
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,520
What sort of music do you like?
What are you a fan of?

358
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,560
Anything that's suffixed
by the word metal. Essentially.

359
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:06,000
Once you've been in it for a few
years, you tend to start one of these

360
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,200
and that's called a battle jacket.

361
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,600
Well, the idea behind it is you make
one because you can get more

362
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,040
bands on it than just the
one on your t-shirt.

363
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,120
And eventually... It'll look like
this and smell like this.

364
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,800
It'll look like this and start
smelling a little bit ripe.

365
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,040
Mine smells a lot worse.
Yours smells like cheese.

366
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,720
On here I've got like Sodom, Razor,
At The Gates, Forbidden, Death Angel,

367
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:40,840
DSI, Carcass all sorts of choice
cuts from the... Morbid shaped.

368
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:48,200
Morbid and intensely
strange world of heavy metal.

369
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,960
And you never take it off.

370
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,200
I know. It's becoming
an extension of my torso.

371
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,960
The more time you put into one,

372
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,720
the more sort of respect
you get, really.

373
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,160
From the community. Yeah.

374
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,280
You've put a fair amount of
love into it

375
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,160
and it's love that you
get from the love of the music.

376
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,920
This back patch took me three hours
to stencil and paint

377
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:20,240
and I've had a lot of comments
about how well sorted it is.

378
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,400
It takes a lot of work and
love to do it

379
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,480
and it's the
love that counts, really.

380
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,360
What is Pisschrist?

381
00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,600
An Australian D-Beat crust band.

382
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,040
D-Beat? Yeah, it's D-Beat.

383
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,640
Have you not made that up?

384
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,280
No, that is a genre, actually.
That's what Wolfsbane are.

385
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,840
HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS

386
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,920
THEY SING ALONG

387
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,000
Every second in the day that
I can fill with music

388
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,560
I will fill with music.

389
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,640
Even if it's ten seconds,
I'll put something on

390
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,840
because it's everything.

391
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,480
If it wasn't for the music I listen
to, I wouldn't be who I am now.

392
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,320
We wouldn't look
and act the way we do now. Yeah.

393
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,840
But who are you then?

394
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,720
I don't know, who are you?
What are you doing in my house?

395
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,880
We are general delinquents, really.

396
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,400
Well, thank you for that one, yeah.

397
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,880
It's quite a hard town,

398
00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:00,960
it's quite a poor town, but there is
such a lot of characters,

399
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,000
that's why I like it so much.

400
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,160
But if you go and have a
look on the high street

401
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,960
you will just see many,
many charity shops

402
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,600
and many, many
pound shops,

403
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,680
which is very sad because it
used to be, it's still the widest

404
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,600
high street in Europe, but they
don't play on that any more.

405
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,240
Terrible really, nothing
to do at all. No jobs.

406
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,480
I'd do any job because
like, I needed the money

407
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,800
because I had a son and that.
So I'd do anything for a job now.

408
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,440
Mechanics or something really,
or painting and decorating,

409
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,200
but like no jobs
at all round here.

410
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,400
I've been trying and trying,
but can't get a job nowhere.

411
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,040
Boredom all the time really,

412
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,080
nowhere to go,
there is nothing to do,

413
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,120
just like all the youths
getting in trouble and that.

414
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,160
There should be like a youth club
or something, you know what I mean,

415
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,440
for people to keep out of trouble,
but there's not.

416
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,840
Never been since I was a kid and
there still isn't now, ten year on.

417
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,560
Like, everyone around here, they
all drink, nearly every day,

418
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,760
like smoke, nearly every day,
and like...

419
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,320
It is hard to stay out
of trouble, like,

420
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,480
you've just got to change,
your friends really,

421
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,240
like I used to get in
trouble all the time,

422
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,120
and like now I've changed my friends
and now I don't get in trouble.

423
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,720
So that's why me and Frankey
DJ and MC,

424
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,840
it's like something to do,
it keeps out of trouble.

425
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,280
It's dreadful!

426
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,560
It's home really,
it's awful but it's just,

427
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,600
it's where we're from so we can't
really hate it that much. I can.

428
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,440
See it's everyone like you
and Jess are going,

429
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,520
"oh, I want to move
away to London..."

430
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,760
I love it here,
I love the North East.

431
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,400
I'm sorry,
there is nothing to do up here.

432
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,360
I know the North East better
than I know anywhere,

433
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,080
and it's just sort of safe for me,
I feel safe here.

434
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,800
# My life flashed before me

435
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,720
# Is this so different?

436
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,800
# Is this all you can do?

437
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:32,240
# When faced with
the difference of me. #

438
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,280
Is that kettle on, Tom?

439
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,400
The kettle can be on, Bob.
Oh, right, excellent.

440
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,520
Can't you hear it? I can hear it.

441
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,960
We have got an artist
on playing live, Saint Saviour.

442
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,800
She turns out, she's from Stockton,
so that's quite good really,

443
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,080
she wanted to play in the shop,
which is bizarre, but exciting.

444
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,680
Compared to say somewhere
like Brixton Academy, which is like,

445
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,840
where she's apparently
played and nearly sold out,

446
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,840
it's quite daunting really,
but it will be fun, I think.

447
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,320
Is it scary coming back
with the idea

448
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,760
that you might see
people from school?

449
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,480
Yeah, that's the most scary thing.

450
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,080
When I was growing up in Stockton,
I was the shyest kid,

451
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:27,320
and I was quite an awkward,
skinny, ginger, freckly girl,

452
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,800
and I hated school,
I hated growing up,

453
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:36,680
and then I moved to London
and just reinvented myself.

454
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,520
So, yeah, when you come back,
people know you,

455
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,200
people actually know
who you really are.

456
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:49,000
Hello everybody My name is Becky,

457
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,120
AKA Saint Saviour.

458
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:58,000
I'm a Stockton girl and I've come
back for the weekend to sing for you.

459
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,600
Thank you. Thank you for having me.

460
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,240
So I'm going to play a few tunes,

461
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,560
I usually have a big band with me but
I couldn't fit them in the shop,

462
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,800
and also they just
wouldn't come up here,

463
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,120
so I came up on my own!

464
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840
This is a song called When You Smile.

465
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,880
# From the start

466
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,320
# I wished for a brave old heart

467
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,160
# But all the while

468
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,440
# I was such a shy child

469
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,960
# And there again

470
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,160
# I'm lost in the dragon's den

471
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,120
# Here comes my knight

472
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,560
# And saved by modern life

473
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,720
# Cos I don't need

474
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,560
# No suit of armour

475
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,840
# Cos my instincts

476
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,880
# Are scared of you

477
00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:31,640
# When you smile

478
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,520
# When you smile

479
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,400
# Ooh

480
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:47,960
# Cos I don't need
no sword and shield

481
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,720
# Cos my instincts

482
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,240
# Are scared of you. #

483
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,880
Sorry, all my songs have
really sudden endings,

484
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,360
it's because I haven't
worked them out.

485
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,800
So...

486
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,600
What's the name? Shane.

487
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,280
Cool. Thank you very much.
Cheers, nice to meet you.

488
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,520
Thank you, as well.
Thanks a lot. Bye.

489
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:43,760
I was rummaging around my music
corner and I come across this.

490
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,280
All the songs are on there,
and it's a double one.

491
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,680
It's an old one, isn't it?
There's a barcode on that,

492
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,360
and I don't know whether it will
tell you what title it is. Yep.

493
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,440
Well, it's basically called
More Rock 'N' Roll Love Songs. Oh.

494
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,400
Is it something you want
another copy..?

495
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,040
I've lost the discs,
I don't know where the discs are.

496
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,000
I want to re-order it if possible.

497
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,120
Now, being an old one, it
could be out of circulation,

498
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,280
so what I'll do, I'll have a look on
the computer, see what I can find.

499
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,360
OK. I'll be a minute, OK.
Oh, that's fine.

500
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,640
We'll have a look at a couple
of discs, Janet, for you.

501
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,200
Now then, where's rock?

502
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,880
Oh, there's Blondie.
I don't want Blondie.

503
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,280
You don't want Blondie? No.

504
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,520
Adam and the Ants,
you have a look at that.

505
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,120
There's Bon Jovi, who's them?

506
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,960
I'd rather keep my
comments to myself,

507
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,160
I had a girlfriend every night
before I met this one.

508
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,040
It's more of
a fun marriage then was it?

509
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,440
Married? Oh, I'm not married.
I'm still single. Still single?

510
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,520
Oh, yes, I'm still looking
for a millionairess.

511
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,720
Ooh, that's good.

512
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,000
Is it 46 year, we've
been with each other?

513
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,520
There abouts.

514
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,160
I could've done a life sentence
and been free.

515
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,800
You could of.

516
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,000
I'm going to buy
a grave, a grave plot,

517
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,720
I'm getting ready for the endless
sleep. See you later.

518
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:25,720
Tada, darling. Love you, Baby.

519
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,280
HE LAUGHS

520
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,160
# Later when you came back

521
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,440
# And I had no energy left

522
00:37:53,160 --> 00:38:00,080
# So we just walked round town... #

523
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,120
I think when I first started
collecting records properly,

524
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,000
it was when you could still
buy vinyl in record shops,

525
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,600
and you could just go in, and you
know, there was there must have been,

526
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,720
what, one, two, at least
three in Stockton,

527
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,120
maybe, oh, there was four.
There was Record Marks.

528
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,960
There were four shops,
five, no, there were five,

529
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,240
then there was the flea market,
so there were six places

530
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,640
you could buy records,
when I first started collecting.

531
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,040
Maybe even seven,
if I think about Smiths as well.

532
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,160
My first record player
was my parents'

533
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,040
old home entertainment
thing, with the arm,

534
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,240
and you could stack seven inches up
and pull the handle down,

535
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,720
and we didn't have a CD player
for a long time,

536
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,280
and you get used to the sound,
I don't mind CDs,

537
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,040
it's just I prefer the
sound of the vinyl.

538
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,160
# Fortune reign

539
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:02,240
# And I know where you'll be... #

540
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,680
Tom's shop, the only shop
in the North East,

541
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,920
once or twice a
month he sees me,

542
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,960
because I'm more selective
with what I buy,

543
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,080
I won't just go in and
buy something you know,

544
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,640
I'm more selective.

545
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,520
It's because you want the power
tunes, the ones no-one else has got.

546
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,320
Yeah, yeah, I like the power tunes.

547
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,720
When you go to Tom's and find
the tune you've wanted for ages,

548
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:27,800
it's like a little buzz and relief,
like you finally found it,

549
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,840
"yes, I've finally got it
after all this looking,

550
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,000
"like it's my tune now."

551
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,160
I'm going to take these,

552
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,880
because otherwise he'll have me
spending more money that I've got.

553
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,400
What this man doesn't know about
music isn't worth knowing.

554
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,200
I don't know, I just like going
there because, you know,

555
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,520
you can always talk to him,

556
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,560
talk to David as well,
it's just, you know,

557
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,800
you never know what's going
to be in there,

558
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,040
he sends me texts,
"I've got these records."

559
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,320
Sound It Out has everything,

560
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,600
but with Tom,
in a way he is a feeder,

561
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,080
Tom feeds
people with what they need.

562
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,240
God, that sounds really bad,
doesn't it?

563
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:16,760
No, but he is their feeder
he is basically their dealer.

564
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,480
You know, he is their dealer.

565
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,640
Well, I've got a Will Oldham
album up there.

566
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,320
Nah, stop it, stop now.
That'll do for the time being.

567
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,320
I definitely want that one.

568
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:36,040
Yeah, it was my first record I ever
bought, I got it from Sound It Out.

569
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,320
I don't know, it was just brilliant

570
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,360
when I found out that he
had one in Stockton,

571
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,360
because I could go there instead
of paying about eight quid

572
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,960
to go to Newcastle.

573
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,680
To not come back with anything.
To not come back with anything.

574
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,280
It's a safe home
for everyone really.

575
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,840
It's just everyone swallows their
differences once they get inside.

576
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,520
It's like the last bastion
of sensibleness... ..in the world?

577
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,440
No, in Stockton, certainly.

578
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,480
Imagine the horrible
scenario that...

579
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,520
Don't even go there. I know what
you're going to say, aren't you?

580
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,760
If he had to go?
If he disappeared?

581
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,360
I would literally, physically cry.

582
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,320
Stockton's a very cheap place,
well, the high street

583
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,920
is very expensive, but where
I am, it's very cheap.

584
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,880
It's the cheapest rent
in town where I am,

585
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,880
and that's why I've probably been
here as long as I have.

586
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,360
About a year and a half ago
the landlord of this block,

587
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,040
and the landlord of the next block
were on about redeveloping

588
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,480
the whole block of shops,

589
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,520
and so for the whole year I was,

590
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,640
I didn't know what was going on,
I was just going,

591
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,400
"right, I'm going to have to..."

592
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,800
Because it was going month by month,
if I had to close the shop,

593
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,400
I'd know within a month
of clearing the shop,

594
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,680
and so I just contemplated
just closing completely,

595
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,600
and selling online for a while,

596
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,040
then going to
do something completely different,

597
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,120
but luckily I'm still here,
I'm still selling records.

598
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:42,600
Do you worry about the future
of the shop?

599
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,720
Yeah, I worry about everything,

600
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:48,720
because I had this whole complacent
attitude to, like...

601
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:51,560
Just over a year ago,
thinking, "oh, the recession,

602
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,800
"I don't think that
will ever affect me."

603
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,440
I worked for Zavvi for ten years.

604
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:02,520
And then Woolworths went down,

605
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:08,680
and their supplier of all their
media stock was our supplier,

606
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,280
which because it was
technically the same company,

607
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:13,680
it went under with Woolworths,

608
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:18,600
and then no-one would give,
like Virgin or Zavvi,

609
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:24,640
good dealer rights, and basically
that sucked us with it.

610
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,520
We found out we were losing our jobs
on Christmas Eve.

611
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,000
Then Tom was like, "you know, why
don't you come and work for me?"

612
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,840
I said, "well, do you want us?"
He goes,

613
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,360
"well, you can come and do it."
So, yeah...

614
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,720
..very grateful.

615
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:50,880
God forbid if this ever went,
it'd leave a huge void.

616
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,000
# Routine bites hard

617
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,080
# And ambitions are low

618
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,080
# And resentment rides high

619
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,160
# But emotions won't grow... #

620
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,520
'It's all about emotions, records.
Emotions and memories.'

621
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,960
'I can tell you exactly what I was
doing when I play a record.'

622
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:25,040
Where I was, who I was going out
with, it's all about memories.

623
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,240
Records hold memories.

624
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:35,960
# Love will tear us apart again. #

625
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,360
I'm going through this
bag of records now,

626
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:44,440
and I can hear every single tune
in my head, what it sounds like.

627
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,000
But it's never-ending.
That's the curse of record shops.

628
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,720
You might think you have everything
you've ever wanted,

629
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:55,600
and then you go, "Oh, what's that"?

630
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,520
# Turned away on your side

631
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,760
# Is my timing that flawed?

632
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,000
# Our respect run so dry?

633
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,680
# Yet there's still this appeal

634
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,560
# That we've kept through our lives

635
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,880
# Love, love will tear us apart,
Again

636
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:28,960
# Love, love will tear us apart. #

637
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,520
Music just helps me get along,
because without music

638
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,680
I don't honestly think
I'd still be here, really.

639
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,520
I'd be six feet under by now
if I didn't have any sort of song

640
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,960
blasting in my ears
every second I can.

641
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,920
I'm not proud to admit,

642
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:48,200
but I have made a few attempts
at, like, ending my life,

643
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,160
but if it wasn't for him and a lot
of the stuff that I have on my iPod

644
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,080
at the moment, I wouldn't be here.

645
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,240
# Turn that system down. #

646
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:03,400
'I can safely say that if it wasn't
for Skindred, I wouldn't be here.'

647
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,080
'I don't know why,
just their enthusiasm.'

648
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,560
'It's a life-line, really.'

649
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,840
# Cannot take the music killa sound

650
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:18,000
# Yeah we'll turn it up
But never down

651
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,960
# Stress it just drives
Them underground

652
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,000
# Cannot take the music killa sound

653
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,640
# Yeah we'll turn it up
But never down

654
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,360
# Stress it just drives
Them underground

655
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,800
# Cannot take the music killa sound

656
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,880
# Yeah we'll turn it up
But never down

657
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,760
# Pressure

658
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,480
# Pressure. #

659
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,280
Unfortunately, due to medical
grounds,

660
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,320
I couldn't go to a normal school,

661
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,960
so I got put to what they called
a "spastic school" at the time,

662
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,560
which I hate the term,

663
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,800
because I was called it
for about fourteen years

664
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,680
and I think that was part
of the reason why

665
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,480
I became sort of a bit reclusive
and started this, you know.

666
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,320
That's one of the reasons,
I look back on life,

667
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,600
you don't do it at the time,
but you look back at it

668
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,640
and think maybe that was
sort of a catalyst.

669
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,440
Then you think, "Well, it's you,
your records, you're on your own."

670
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,920
Why did you end up going
to a special school?

671
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,800
Basically, I was diagnosed with
cerebral palsy,

672
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,080
epilepsy and hydrocephalus,
which is fluid on the brain.

673
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:39,400
All of which is, touch wood,
under control,

674
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,000
you know, with medication,

675
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,080
but it does limit you in what you
can do and what you can't do.

676
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,480
I mean, for instance, I can't drive,

677
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,760
never will be able to,
one of those things,

678
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,360
and I ended up on the dole
for nearly six years

679
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,240
because at that time nobody wanted
to employ a "spacka",

680
00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:58,680
as they called them.

681
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,360
Now they can't get away with it,
of calling you that,

682
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,440
but there is still prejudice
out there.

683
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,560
What's your job?

684
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,800
I work permanent nights for B&Q.

685
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,720
Basically, pure and simple terms,
a shelf stacker.

686
00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:17,400
Empty the wagons, fill the shelves,
make it all look pretty

687
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,400
for you people to come and spend
your money and pay my wages.

688
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,200
That's the way I look at it, anyway.

689
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,120
What I think about when I'm working
is, go in, clock on,

690
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,400
do the job, clock off, go home.

691
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,600
This is my release.

692
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,440
# If you want to turn me onto

693
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,800
# Anything you really want to

694
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,320
# Turn me onto your love

695
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,720
# Sweet love

696
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,680
# Come on, sweet Caroline

697
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,280
# You're my sweet Caroline

698
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:53,840
# You know I want to take you

699
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,320
# I've really got to make you

700
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,360
# Come on, sweet Caroline

701
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,360
# Take my hand

702
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,160
# Together we can rock'n'roll. #

703
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,320
When is your record collection
going to be complete?

704
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,520
Never, never.

705
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,000
It will... I mean,
I have already said,

706
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,320
I have been doing research into
this, this sounds morbid I know,

707
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:23,000
but one of the things I've
looked into is, actually,

708
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,000
I would begrudge selling this
on to somebody,

709
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,880
because I don't know they would
actually look after it.

710
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,680
I don't have any children myself,
I don't have a partner,

711
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:40,240
and I thought, "Well, what's the one
way I'd like to be with my records?"

712
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:43,040
I thought, "Well, how about being
buried with them?"

713
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,720
and I was actually talking
to a friend of mine

714
00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,320
who is actually an undertaker,
and he said,

715
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,000
"You know, there is actually
two or three companies

716
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,440
"that can melt your vinyl down," he
said, "And make it into a coffin."

717
00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:00,240
So that's one of my things on my
will, to have my vinyl melted down

718
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:02,560
and be buried with my vinyl.

719
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,880
In a vinyl coffin.

720
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,680
It's my idea of taking it with me,

721
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,520
you know, because to me,
it means so much to me.

722
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:12,800
You know?

723
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,280
Oh, let's have a look
at these, Janet.

724
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,880
Oh, let's have a look at these.

725
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:53,960
Is this what you like?

726
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:54,960
Meat Loaf, yeah.

727
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,800
Oh, that looks nice.

728
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,440
Meat Loaf, that one there.

729
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,280
Meat Loaf, again.

730
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:05,680
Have you got it?
Yeah.

731
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:06,960
And Meat Loaf again.

732
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,520
I think I can afford
the three for you, Janet.

733
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,640
We'll get the three of these.
OK.

734
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,760
Yes, lovely, smashing.

735
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,360
Yes, good shop, this. Good shop.

736
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,400
So, are you the Meat Loaf fan?

737
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:22,800
Yeah.

738
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,040
She's got her own Jukebox.
She's got her own Jukebox.

739
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,840
I've got my own Jukebox, yeah.

740
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,920
What is it about Meat Loaf, then?

741
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,600
I just like the way he sings,
he sings nice.

742
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,800
I'm going to build a little
collection up for her.

743
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,880
A collection of vinyls, I mean.

744
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,080
I'm glad that record player
works for you, as well.

745
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,160
Oh, it's great.

746
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,920
The best fiver you've spent for a
long time, I should imagine. Yeah.

747
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,560
You've got to keep getting up, like.

748
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,760
Oh, well, that's the half the fun
of records, keeps you fit.

749
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,080
Yeah, well, she's got
to keep getting up.

750
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,200
Ah.

751
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,720
What have you got planned
for the rest of the day?

752
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:56,960
Well, I'm going to have
three bottles of brown ale,

753
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,200
then we're going on the market,
shopping.

754
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,840
We've got the music first.

755
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:07,480
We always come here,
yes, good service.

756
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:11,160
Anything you want,
you can get it in here.

757
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:17,920
That's excluding loose women
from Taiwan.

758
00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:23,680
See you later, gentlemen!

759
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:24,880
Bye.

760
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,200
Bye-bye, pet.

761
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,200
Bye.

762
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,400
Goodbye.

763
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,120
He's lovely.

764
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,400
It's record shop day.

765
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:42,600
Store day.

766
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,560
Record store day, yeah.

767
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,720
It started three years ago...

768
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:48,720
In the states.
..in the states,

769
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,680
and it was to celebrate all these
indie shops in the states.

770
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,720
There's actually about as many
independent record shops

771
00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:57,480
in the states now
as there is in the UK,

772
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,920
because the numbers have reduced
that many.

773
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:03,160
You know, when you think about
how big America is

774
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,840
and there is the same number
of indie shops there.

775
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,200
It's ridiculous.

776
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:19,600
So far, already, it's been busy, like
busier than normal for a Saturday,

777
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,160
and today we've got a
few bands playing

778
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,080
like Russell and the Wolves,
who are just nuts.

779
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,320
They're like The Cramps but louder.

780
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,240
It's going to be busy with customers,

781
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:32,440
but also going to be busy with people
coming to see the band as well,

782
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,480
and so it's going to
be very interesting.

783
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,240
SINGS INDISTINCTLY

784
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,720
I love it when it's
busy like that.

785
00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:28,160
If that was like that all the
time I'd be quite happy.

786
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:32,480
When I'm just on my feet and serving
four people at once, that's great.

787
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,120
I love that.
When it's quiet and it's just like...

788
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:39,560
You get a bit lethargic, but that,
I'm, like, totally on a high now.

789
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,000
I'm knackered,
but I'm totally on a high.

790
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,720
It's probably the busiest day
of this year, I think.

791
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:46,840
Busier than Christmas.

792
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,640
Busiest day ever, ever.

793
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,200
It probably is the busiest day.

794
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:51,560
In my books for the year,

795
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,760
there will be a spike
on this day, going up.

796
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,680
'I think the shop is an escape
for a lot of people.'

797
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:12,560
'It's somewhere for them to go and
escape their lives for an hour.'

798
00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:15,680
'And that's important.'

799
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,760
'You put a record on and you're
totally taken away

800
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,280
'for however long the record lasts.'

801
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,440
'and I think there's always going to
be a market for that.'

802
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,280
# Supper in black

803
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:28,920
# Smoking jacket still intact

804
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,120
# And I believe

805
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,560
# You're anything but sad

806
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:45,880
# Suffer alone

807
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,840
# Some home

808
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,320
# Suffer alone

809
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,880
# Some home

810
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,360
# Suffer alone

811
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,480
# Some home

812
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,760
# Suffer alone

813
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:29,160
# Some home

814
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,280
# Suffer alone

815
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:38,360
# Some home

816
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,800
# Suffer alone

817
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:49,160
# Some home. #

818
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,560
# This isn't the time,
This isn't the place

819
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,240
# You're out of line,
I'm a disgrace

820
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,920
# You'll never be the best

821
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,760
# I've ever seen

822
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:17,600
# You'll always see

823
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,680
# The worst I've ever been. #