I`ve Got This On Vinyl: A North-West Music Story, 1985-2005

There was a time when finding a tune took work.You heard something in a club, on a tape, in a car, on the radio, or through a shop speaker. Then the search began: asking mates, guessing titles, travelling to town, standing at record-shop counters, buying the wrong mix, taping the right one badly, and waiting for someone to say the magic words: "I've got this on vinyl."I've Got This On Vinyl is a memoir-led cultural history of North-West music memory between 1985 and 2005. It moves through record shops, chain stores, local clubs, warehouse rumours, Blackpool nights, Manchester imports, Liverpool doors, Wigan piano-house memory, tapes, CD singles, cars and the slow arrival of downloads.It is about vinyl, but not only vinyl. It is about the effort, routes, people, places and rituals that made music feel earned before everything became searchable.Warm, funny and source-aware, this Reader Edition is a tribute to the people who found the tune, bought it, taped it, drove with it, argued over it, lost it, found it again, and kept the story alive.