Alan PerrottAlan Perrott

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

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Alan Perrott reports on the pressures of running a secondhand bookstore in 2018. Maud Cahill has owned secondhand bookstore Jason Books in downtown Auckland since 2002. “My parents didn’t read very much,” she says. “But I can’t remember not having books. I’d go to the library every week, search every shelf with children’s books, then go … Read more

Bum note: how Record Store Day lost its cool

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This Saturday marks the return of Record Store Day, the annual international celebration of independent music retail. 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. We must destroy Record Store Day to save Record Store Day. Which, frankly, is … Read more