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10 August 2011updated 17 Jan 2012 8:52am

Riot fire must not stop the music

The destroyed Pias warehouse contained recordings of some of the UK's best independent music.

By Tom Ravenscroft

As some of you may know, during this week’s horrific riots across the UK, a SonyDADC warehouse that stores the physical distribution for Pias was burned to the ground and, among it, the stock of huge swaths of independent record labels. The list of labels is frankly extraordinary — between them, they have provided a large proportion of the joy I have experienced since I first started buying music and the thought that so many may of them, in one act of crazed stupidity, have lost so much, is deeply upsetting.

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