Going To Sea In A Sieve: The Autobiography - Plot & Excerpts
Some of the casual staff they sent to work there thought the place odd and the rump of our old stock ‘way out’. DJs stopped their pilgrimages to our door and any scene that had centred around the life and sounds of One Stop Records dissipated and died.The new owners were determined to knock any individuality out of what had once been London’s hippest store and make us another anonymous cog in the corporate machine. One morning two men arrived and took down the One Stop sign with its black-and-white psychedelic spiral logo; in its place they bunged up the orange Harlequin brand, complete with gurning jester motif. Next, a batch of huge, bright-red SALE posters arrived with orders to put them all in our window. They featured the names of popular but terrible chart acts surrounded by lots of exclamation marks – The New Seekers!!!!! 49p!!!!! – the sort of stuff that John and Ian would have burned the place down rather than admit they had it in stock, let alone advertise the fact.We had never had anything like a sale before and I wondered where all these very bad records were going to come from.
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