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Here is your opportunity to put faces to the names and voices or just to see how beautiful we all are.
Each member of our dedicated team, from the Customer Relations Team through to the Managing Director can be found right here.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to Contact Us
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customer relations and sales team
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full name: Roy Ford
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position: Telephone Sales & Customer Relations
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | Wasp | The Macc Lads
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favourite album: Iron Maiden 'Iron Maiden' | Wasp 'The Headless Chicken'
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full name: Lee Reeves
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position: Telephone Sales
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Oasis, The Charlatans, Metallica, Kasabian, Nirvana - Among others!
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favourite album: Always Changing - Too many to limit to just one!
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what i like Beer! Photography, Football, Music, Films, Days out with my Family.
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what I don't: Brussels - Evil little things!
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full name: Laura Stoneman
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position: Responsible for the adding, ordering and processing of new release product
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what i like Music [Guillemots, Broken Records, Irrepressibles, Arcade Fire, Coldplay], Gigs, Comedy [Kevin Bridges, Russell Kane, Andrew Lawrence, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Sarah Millican, Danny Bhoy to name a few], Travelling, Cinema, Brothers' Toffee Apple Cider and Cake. |
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what i don't: Spicy food, radio playlists (having 5 songs rammed down my ears three times an hour), new indie bands who sound like every other indie band, drunk teenage hooligans taking over nice chilled out festivals. |
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full name: Dave Joyce
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position: Responsible for the storage & management of all our stock
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home town: Gravesend
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what i like Movies, most music genres particularly Gospel, Elvis Presley, holidays in the sun and reading books by Dwight L Moody, Evan Roberts, John & Charles Wesley, Charles Finney, George Whitefield, Isaac Watts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth to name but a few. |
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what i don't: Spaghetti, rice pudding, people who exceed the driving limit on roads (they are there for a reason) and hay fever.
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invoice & despatch team
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full name: Cheryl Lees
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position: Head of Product Distribution
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home town: Kent
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favourite artist: Kylie Minogue | Madonna
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favourite album: Phil Collins 'Hits'
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purchasing & stock addition team
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full name: Stephen Franklin
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Sevenoaks (not the affluent part)
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favourite artist: Rush, Gentle Giant, Brand X, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Sunny Day Real Estate, Planesmistakenforstars (rip), Karnivool, King Crimson, Alice In Chains, Tool, The Clash, Aloha, Jazz-Fusion on vinyl!, The Prog-Archives, The Muffin Man, Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga, 70"s & 80"s horror (Suspiria, The Thing), Vinyl & Real Coffee (together!)
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favourite album: Running out of real coffee, broken turn-tables, grime/garage (or whatever the hell it"s called at the moment), opera, big brother, roadkill, intermittent freeview, breaking guitar strings, cancelled band practices, P.Diddy"s version of Kashmir
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full name: Jean-Paul Cartwright
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | The Darkness | Godsmack
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favourite album: Alter Bridge 'One Day Remains' | Iron Maiden 'Number Of The Beast'
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full name: Rich Wilson
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Harlow
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favourite artist: Jazz/Afro/Brazilian, Cardiacs, Suburban Base Records for turning me into an evil
vinyl addict
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favourite album: Miles Davis 'Kind Of Blue' |
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full name: Mark Evetts
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position: Specialises in buying our 80's & 90's Indie, Punk & New Wave
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home town: Croydon
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what i like Punk Rock, Association Football, Fergus the Ferret, Profiteroles.
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what i don't: Whiney female vocalists, motor 'sport', America.
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full name: Peter Fenton
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position: Our North American representative, managing our buying in the USA and Canada
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home town: San Francisco
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what i like Morten, Falco, Madonna, Neil & Chris, Kylie, Mylène, Claudia & Paul, Ann & Nancy, Dame Shirley, Ofra… and MANY more.
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what i don't: Misogynists, Homophobes, Egotists, Narcissists, The Ignoble, The Ungrateful, and The Ignorant.
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full name: Richard Austin
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position: A member of our buying team and processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Betelgeuse 5
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favourite artist: Tori Amos | Van der Graaf Generator | Ani Di Franco
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favourite album: The Sound 'From The Lions Mouth' | Ozric Tentacles 'Erpland'
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full name: Sharon Sexton
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Kent
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what i like The Stranglers, Ash, Muse, Manics, travel, pandas and Art Deco
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what i don't: Whistling, Jazz, beards, feet
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full name: Yasuhiko Yashiki
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position: Our Japanese representative, managing our buying throughout Japan & beyond...
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home town: Hiroshima City
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what i like The Dance Of Death by Scaramanga Six, Bipolar Diversion by Jackdaw4 in the meantime. |
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what i don't An outrageous Jap ebayers without having paid a tax from sales once and also live without paying a rent by an allowance from their parent.
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IT (the geeks)
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full name: Julia Nicholas
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position: IT Manager
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favourite artists: Fdot1, Chase & Status (pre-Mercury Records signing), Nero, Noisia, Durrty Goodz, David Mensah |
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what i like Sex and shoes and DnB...
the genius that is Fdot1, my kids, shoes, Drum n Bass, good manners, BIG bass sound that make your chest collapse, my recording studio (Lil' Rock Studios), Pole Dancing, shoes, Quentin Tarrantino (artistiscally not physically, eww!), bodies, shoes, clean sheets, erotic art (photo left courtesy of my photography teacher, the genuis that is Chris Bell), Amsterdam
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what i don't: rudeness, Crocs, Uggs (u-g-l-y you ain't got no alibi..), Jazz (the kind where 10 people are playing different tunes), cliche RnB videos, men with hairy backs, YouTube
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full name: Gary Breeze
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position: Senior Software Developer
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home town: eil Towers
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what i like sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above |
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what i don't: no sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above
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full name: John Thomson
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position: Responsible for PC and Network support
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home town: Maidstone
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favourite artist: Fleetwood Mac
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favourite album: Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours'
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full name: Mike Towers
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position: Senior Software Developer
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home town: Ashford
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favourite artist: Oasis | Meat Loaf
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favourite album: Oasis 'Heathen Chemistry' | Meat Loaf 'Bat Out Of Hell'
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management team
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full name: Cathryn Draper
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position: Company Director and oversees day to day management.
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home town: Kent
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what i like Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Faithless Outrospective. Most Porsche 911's (except silver ones - but the odd 356 Speedster in any colour is very nice). Cafe Del Mar Volume 9 |
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what i don't: Frank Zappa - he makes my eardrums want to burst (Sorry Richard). drum n bass - someone tell me where the rhythm is?
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full name: Julian Thomas
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position: Co-Founder & Company Director
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home town: The Dark Side Of The Moon
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what i like gilmour, lemmy, jazz, beans on toast, yorkshire tea, ch. palmer, real ale, english pubs, motor racing, maserati, morris minor, shotguns, japan, murakami
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what i don't: anything idol, big brother, TV soaps, beetroot, black coffee, alcopops, stella, english pubs abroad, football, austin princess, knives, spain, mills & boon
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full name: Robert Croydon
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position: Co-Founder and Managing Director
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home town: Longfield
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favourite music place: Sunday afternoon on the Terrace at Space, Ibiza
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favourite album: Mylo 'Destoy Rock And Roll' | Simon and Garfunkel 'Best Of'
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