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DATELINE : 13 FEBRUARY 2009

IN THIS ISSUE -

R.I.P. - RON ASHETON & LUX INTERIOR

THE DEMISE OF PINNACLE

BLUE CRUMB TRUCK ONLINE STORE
- Zombie News
- Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied T-shirt, on sale now
- Also on sale, Face Of The Fiend & Para-Abnormal Ts & vests
- Normal service resumed on CDs & DVDs
- Back in stock - R.I.P - A 12" Collection Double CD
- BLOOD MONEY! A FREE fiendish ZILLION DOLLAR bill with every order!

MY SPACE
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R.I.P. -
RON ASHETON &
LUX INTERIOR

    The Stooges

The Cramps

Nik Fiend 'ere :
Wot a way to kick off 2009 - blimey... - the year has only just started and Ron Asheton, guitarist of The Stooges, and Lux Interior, singer with The Cramps, have both sadly passed away... Mrs.Fiend and I have spent countless hours over the years having our brains pleasantly fried by both The Stooges and The Cramps, in fact without them, our lives would have been somewhat different! Thank you is not a big enough word for your contribution to all of the music which continues to inspire & drive us on....


THE DEMISE OF PINNACLE... HELLO TO PLASTIC HEAD

Some of you may have heard in the news about the closure of Woolworths stores in the UK. What you may not know is that contributed to the collapse of the distribution company, Pinnacle. Distributors are the people who get CDs & DVDs into record stores & they also supply all the online stores, such as Amazon, HMV, & ASF's own Blue Crumb Truck online store. Pinnacle were involved in the distribution of Alien Sex Fiend releases for over 25 years, from the first single "Ignore The Machine" & all subsequent releases on Anagram/Cherry Red Records (ASF's old record company) through to Alien Sex Fiend's own 13th Moon Records label releases from 1996 until Pinnacle's closure in early December.

So ALL Alien Sex Fiend releases - whether back catalogue or new releases & whether DVDs or CDs - were severely affected for over 2 months. Pinnacle was the biggest independent distributor in Europe, representing more than 300 record labels, & was holding over 12 million units of stock when it went under, the stock was then stuck in limbo in the warehouses & that caused a lot of disruption all round. Some copies of ASF's "Information Overload" & "Para-Abnormal" CDs are STILL stuck due to continuing legal bollox.

The timing was bad too, although Alien Sex Fiend is not a big Christmas selling type band, "RIP - A 12" Collection" was released on November 22nd 2008 & within 2 weeks was caught up in the disaster. It is a shit situation for all of the record labels involved, it is unlikely that they will get paid for sales dating back months & the artists who made those records won't get paid either.

Luckily Plastic Head Distribution have come to the rescue & from now on they will be distributing 13th Moon Records releases (via Nova). Coincidentally Anagram/Cherry Red Records will also be going through Plastic Head in future, so at least all ASF releases (CD & DVD) will be under the same roof as they used to be with Pinnacle.


Mrs Fiend writes :
The demise of Pinnacle has been a damned spanner in the works.... we were working in the studio on new songs when it all kicked off.... it threw things up in the air for a couple of months.... it's wasted time & cost money... oh the joys of running yer own label! ha! we know it's not just us & we know things change, & in the bigger scheme of things like the very sad news above, well, what the hell - BUT! All we wanna do is get on with IT but even now the situation is not 100% settled down. The new deal with PHD is only just in place & the full domino effect of Pinnacle's downfall is still being felt, we don't yet know what all the repercussions will be... so the upshot is we're holding off releasing anything new until we are more sure of our ground.

Anyway enough with the doom & gloom.... to end on a positive note (duh dah) - we're STILL here, we're back in the studio now & Nik's been doing some paintings - & we're getting back on track ...
... so STAY TUNED!

13th MOON RECORDS

13th Moon

says

Goodbye to Pinnacle
Distribution

Pinnacle

and

Hello to Plastic Head
Distribution

PHD

Via

Nova


BLUE CRUMB TRUCK ONLINE STORE NEWS


    ZOMBIE NEWS

    Spotted in a UK tabloid recently ....

    zombie news

    Now that IS feeling zombiefied!

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ALSO ON SALE

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AND

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NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED

The supply of CD & DVD stock to the Blue Crumb Truck online store was severely interrupted for over 2 months due to the collapse of Pinnacle Distribution.

Now that the new distributor, Plastic Head, is in place, stock supplies are back to normal, although it took much longer than anyone expected for the change over in record distributors to be resolved.

BACK IN STOCK
R.I.P. - A 12" COLLECTION
NEW DOUBLE CD COMPILATION

RIP Collection

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