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monorail music

est. 2002

About Me

monorail music is a proudly independent record shop, found inside a vegan cafe / bar named Mono. It first opened it's doors to a musically-deprived Glaswegian public in 2002 with the aim to support sounds that deserve to be heard and may be difficult to find elsewhere. We feel anyone passionate about music will find something of interest amongst our varied wares. Vinyl enthusiasts are particularly well catered for. We've also paid host to many in-store performances from such underground luminaries as Chris Corsano / Paul Flaherty Duo, Colleen, Jad Fair, Simon Finn, Amina, Exias-J, William Elliot Whitmore and Jack Rose. Our website is currently under constuction. Please keep checking: www.monorailmusic.com .

We ask you appreciate monorail is a small business run by very few staff, therefor there simply isn't the time to promise an answer all the messages sent to monorail via MySpace. Sorry x .

My Interests

MONORAIL ALBUM OF THE MONTH:
Angels Of Light We Are Him (Young God CD)
OPTIMO ALBUM OF THE MONTH:
Various Twistin' Rumble volumes 1-4 (Twistin' Rumble LP) RECOMMENDED READING:
Julian Cope JAPROCKSAMPLER (Bloomsbury)

I'd like to meet:

All those in the pursuit of aural atonement.

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4New York's White Hills will be playing the Creepy Crawl night at The Flying Duck (142 Renfield Street, by the Herald building) on Thursday 27th Sep. They've recorded for Julian Cope's Fuck Off & Di label and the noble Rocket Recordings. They will be joined by Ruaraidh Sanachan and Alastair Crosbie taking the mantle of Eye Shaking Kingdom. Creepy Crawl DJs Benoit and Russell (monorail music) will play you into the wee hours with eclectic sounds from the vaults. Please note the early doors. Hope to see you there.
White Hills
Nackt Insecten (Eye Shaking Kingdom member)
Alastair Crosbie (Eye Shaking Kingdom member)
Creepy Crawl

Music:

MONORAIL PLAYLIST:
Zombi self-titled / Twilight Sentinal (Wabama LPs)
Thurston Moore Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace CD)
C.A. Celestial & Bill Wells / Lucky Luke 7"s (Wee Black Skelf)
Prince 12"s (WEA)
Skull Defekts Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy CD)
sunn O))) Oracle (Southern Lord limited LP)
Various Hallum Foe OST (Domino CD)
Sunray Tomorrow & reissues (Strawberry Recording Co CDs)
Various Eccentric Soul: Home Schooled (Numero CD & LP)
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil (Vice CD)
Various Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets (Rhino 4x CD)
Early Songs Wind Wound (Preservation CD)
MOSS Chtonic Rites (Aurora Borealis 2xLP)
David-Ivar Herman Dune Demented Abduction / Novas Cotia Runs For Gold (Gun LP)
Chrome Hoof Pre-Emptive False Rapture (Southern CD)
Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino CD & 2x LP)
The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland Let's Get Lost (self-released CDr)

Movies:

The monorail film club will run once a month in the GFT cinema in Rose Street, Glasgow. It was launched with Godard's Masculin Feminin, introduced by Stephen Pastel. We are also supplying music for the GFT Cinema cafe. Most of the Monorail staff are keen cinephiles and the GFT has always been the best place to see this kind of interesting stuff. We would encourage our customers to drop by whenever they're in the area. www.gft.org.uk

Heroes:

TEAM MONORAIL:
Dep Downie, Stephen Pastel, Russell Elder, Eilidh Rodgers, Lorna Gilfedder and Mark Hillier.

My Blog

Album Of The Month Archive

Angels Of Light -We Are Him (Young God)Young Marble Giants -Colossal Youth (Domino)Michio Kurihara -Sunset Notes (202020)Terry Riley -Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan (Elision Fields)Sister Vanilla -Lit...
Posted by monorail music on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:28:00 PST

Monorail's end of year charts 2006

Hello, We just wanted to thank you all for your support in 2006. It's been good to sell you the music in 2006. Let's do it again next year. As is traditional, we compiled an end of year list from sal...
Posted by monorail music on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:13:00 PST