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Alan Perrott

Guest writer

Alan Perrott is a freelance writer with too many kids, just enough turntables and not enough records. He likes orange and walking briskly. Alan was born in Auckland in 1965.

An ode to the joy and persistence of secondhand bookstores

An ode to the joy and persistence of secondhand bookstores

Alan Perrott reports on the pressures and hardships of running a second-hand bookstore in 2018.

By Alan Perrott | 25th September, 2018

Bum note: how Record Store Day lost its cool

Bum note: how Record Store Day lost its cool

What started as a fun way to support your local record store has become an orgy of price-gouging and corporate greed, says Alan Perrott.

By Alan Perrott | 13th April, 2016