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Probe Records, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool

I’ve been going to Probe since I started buying records as a teenager. They’ve put me on to a lot of good music over the years, especially a lot of great 60s stuff such as the Nuggets compilation and records by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra.

I get on well with a guy who works there called Bob, who likes a lot of that 60s stuff. Through him I discovered a compilation series of music from old Italian cop shows and films, called Beat at Cinecittà. The guitar sounds are amazing, as are the covers, with photos of a girl lying down eating spaghetti, or lying on a car, that sort of thing. The sleeve for the Last Shadow Puppets album [Kane’s collaboration with Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner], with the girl on the cover, was partly inspired by discovering those compilations.

I get a lot of my inspiration from music, right down to the lyrics, because I’m not a big reader of books like some people. So being able to see the album cover is important, because you might be inspired by the haircut some guy on the cover has or the font on the artwork. 

That very Probe Records, which was mentioned in Kevin Sampson’s “Awaydays” the novel, which in turn was filmed in 2009, where Miles and The Rascals had a cameo. Why is this so amusingly strange to me?