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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 MY SPACE VAMPIRE FREAKS SITE UPDATES |
  
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| 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 : 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 ... |
13th MOON RECORDS
says Goodbye to Pinnacle
and Hello to Plastic Head
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BLUE CRUMB TRUCK ONLINE STORE NEWS
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ZOMBIE NEWS Spotted in a UK tabloid recently ....
Now that IS feeling zombiefied! |
THE OFFICIAL ALIEN SEX FIEND ONLINE STORE OPEN 24 hours!
SALE NOW ON! NOW I'M FEELING
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ALSO ON SALE FACE OF THE FIEND Girl's & Men's T-shirts & Vests
AND PARA-ABNORMAL Girl's & Men's T-shirts & Vests
ALL AT ONLY £9-99 (Reduced from £13-99 & £14-99) |
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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
BUY NOW for £9.95 |
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This is a similar set up to MySpace but with a slant towards industrial & gothic music, so most of the members are into that musical area. |
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