Job Interview DisastersThe boss showed me the shop floor, complete with loose floor tiles, out-of-date equipment and prospective colleagues eyeing me like a raw steak. "Christ, what a craphole", I said. I think that's the moment I blew it. Tell us how you didn't get the job.
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Our Price. Barnstaple. 1998.At the time I was mainlining the NME, I had one ear permanently tuned to Radio One and the other on a Fender Strat with a 10 watt amp in my bedroom. I was the fucking king of music.
The first part of the interview involved naming the current top 10 singles and albums in the UK. I nailed it. Shania Twain was number one at the time.
”You got every answer right," she said. "That's never happened before.”
"So, what do you think makes Our Price better than the other record stores in Barnstaple?"
A beat. I thought through why I liked this compact disc utopia better than all the others.
There were three music shops in Barnstaple. Sound n Vision was the indie kid's paradise, chock full of CD singles and a guy who looked a little like Steve Lamacq. Up Front was fronted by a guy with 37 kids, and it was the choice for vinyl wizards taking drugs I had not even heard of at that point. And Our Price, inhabited by dads who wanted to listen to the new Ocean Colour Scene CD in their brand spanking new Ford Mondeo.
But, to me, each and every one was a cultured oasis where spending money on a Shed Seven single validated my outsider status in a town full of moron factory workers and loaded retiree's grandchildren, who were often one and the same.
I deeply considered what made Our Price better than the other two.
”Our Price smells a lot better than the other record shops,” I said. Didn't get the job.
(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 20:19, 3 replies)
Every record shop should have a guy who looks like Steve Lamacq.(
The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 20:49,
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I had to google the name,he looks like an anorexic cat.
(, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 1:11, closed)
Barnstaple used to have a guy who was a youth sub-culture all to himselfHe was the only black teen in town, and also the only punk.
Legend.
History doesn't record which record shop he favoured.
(, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 10:46, closed)
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