title Closing Down: Viva La Revolution Records, Diss, Norfolk - 21st January 2006 intro It's the end of an era. Over the last 10 years, Nosher has collected somewhere in the region of 1,000 CDs - at least 700 of which came from the great independent record shop "Revolution Records" in Diss, including around 500 that were second-hand. It had become very much an enjoyable part of a Saturday to go in, buy a handful of CDs and then hang out for bit. A few weeks before Wes had been on the turntables playing Pink Floyd's 24-minute track "Meddle", which we both wigged out to, much to the bemusement of members of staff and passers-by. Sadly, as most people seem to either buy only top-twenty shite from some supermarket, or download 128kbps crap off the internet; there's less of a place for somewhere like Revs, with its random second-hand stuff and some amazingly weird left-field Indie that would have remained unheard otherwise. To commiserate the closing-down, Nosher is invited along with a whole bunch of other regulars to a "do" in the shop on the last Saturday of its existence. Playing a short set before her later appearance at the Yaxley acoustic music evening is Alex Hill, who played Revs last July with the Cracking Daisies, and Nosher is pursaded to do a quick turn on a Yamaha organ. This place will be sorely missed. imgp6602 On Saturday afternoon, Geoff Sharkey is playing imgp6603 Punters browse the half-price sale imgp6604b The Sharkeys do some music imgp6605 Vinyl is inspected imgp6606 People mill around scavenging reduced stock imgp6608 A stack of vinyl LPs imgp6610 Geoff Sharkey amongst the records imgp6611 Geoff Sharkey imgp6613 Hazel looks taken by surprise imgp6615 There's a flea market on the market place imgp6617 There's tons of food and beer laid on imgp6618 Quiche and sandwiches imgp6620 Random piles of CDs imgp6627 Alex Hill plays a set in the evening imgp6628 The Yamaha organg in place imgp6629 Local Mere Quacks artist Mike Webb imgp6633 Alex Hill after a song imgp6640 Another regular gives the nibbles the thumbs-up imgp6646 Alex Hill sings imgp6650 Alex Hill in Revolution Records imgp6651 Hazel pours a glass of wine imgp6652 The evening event imgp6653 Lou helps out on the "bar" imgp6655 A couple of regulars chat imgp6657 Wayne Flatman models a very rare Revs t-shirt imgp6659 Steamy windows: the front of Revs imgp6660 More browsing imgp6666 Lou and Hazel imgp6667b More regulars imgp6671 Lou chats to a regular imgp6672 Mike Webb checks something out imgp6674 Random 10p vinyl records imgp6675 Mike Webb looks at CDs imgp6676 The scene in Revolution Records imgp6678 Wayne Flatman finds something amusing imgp6679 Hazel is presented with a card imgp6682 Wes gives the card thumbs up imgp6686 Mike Webb and Nigel over a case of CDs imgp6688 Wes pretends to play Bruce Springsteen's Fender imgp6690 Wes's mate and fellow-regular has a go too imgp6691 Posters and an armchair await their destiny imgp6696 The beer is running out imgp6700 The front of Revolution Records imgp6701 The corner of a window display imgp6702 A Beatles poster imgp6703 More random music merchandise imgp6706 Nosher's bike in the corner of the shop imgp6708 A view over the organ imgp6710 Mark's girlfriend, Mark, Hazel and Wes imgp6714 Mark cues up the next track