Harry's Place Arts

So, earlier this week I got some dusty fingers rummaging around in the sale-bins of Soho looking for lost musical treasures. Whether I found any, of course, is up to you. This week I opportune you with three new chunes… As you know, the CDs these tracks have been lifted off where obtained for under [...]

Right, here are four tracks for you to listen to over the next week. Each is a new track off the four bargain-bin CDs that attracted the most enthusiasm (such as it was) from the first four Junkbox Juries. Each of these CDs was found in a bargain bin and cost under £1. We’re here to [...]

So, by now everyone should know the concept (or conceit) – we fish out CDs from those clearance bins and ponder how they got here. What unfulfilled promise, what injustice, what quirk of fate led this disc to fall from the top shelf into the junk box? We must never have heard of the artist [...]

For this week’s Junkbox Jury I have bent the rules a little. You see, I know all three of these artists, but since they are all South African, I don’t think very many other people in the UK do – which is why these albums have landed up in bargain bins. I suspect they were [...]

I got these three CDs from Beanos Records in Croydon last Saturday for 50p each, or 3 for a pound. Sibrydion sing in Welsh. What the hey, Sigur Rós sing in Icelandic, and they’re pretty good. This album, Simsalabim is special, too, because it was after seeing it in two separate junkboxes in a single [...]

So. This is the concept of Junkbox Jury… One of the most exciting moments for any band – particularly a new one, and particularly if its their first – is when the record comes out. It may be a full-length album, or something more modest like an EP or a single, but its always a [...]