“That was designed by martin in 1985, shortly after we opened in Afflecks, it would have been around November time.
I have to say though, i have no recollection of anyone going to look at any persons collection, let alone buying any second hand records and sticking them on the wall.”
“My name is paul ireland and it was me that came up with the whole idea this record shop.
The shop started life on the 5th of october 1985 in affleks palace on the third floor as earwig records Ltd.
One year later when i heard that affleks was due to expand onto the street front of oldham street i jumped at the chance to sign us up trading as eastern bloc records, it was a real hard struggle to get to that point with 7 day weeks the norm but soon after we got into the new premises on oldham street we got into financial trouble, i started to sell, [hash/weed] to help us get back on track.
I got busted on the 7th march 1987.
When i came out of prison at the end of '87 i found myself being verbally attacked by martin and john who had previously been putting notes through my door asking for 8th's etc, it was these notes that sent me down in the first place, [cheers john, i expected a bit of loyalty for that one].
The short story is i got froze out by all three of them, martin price, john berry and mick powers.
I don't want to hear how martin or john did this or that because without me they wouldn't have come up with anything, i just want the record put straight, e bloc was built on deception and thievery, if you listen to martin or john they will tell you lies, the only reason i got john involved in the first place was because he was doing a business course at college, funny that he forgot to add the vat in our first year.
As for mick kerwin, well i thought he was a decent sort more interested in what was right.... he jumped into my shoes pretty fast though.....
This is how the shop started, it's brief i know but i found it doesn't pay to dwell on the negative and retribution is not my style, lucky for them.
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