It’s just 2 weeks to Christmas and it’s been another crazy day at the Newcastle Drum centre! Here’s some of the everyday things that we’ve been up to today as well as our usual drum centre antics.
We’ve got some extra stock of LP percussion come in – lots of extra bits and bobs in the way of percussion including some wacky hand held gear like the Flexatone and the Kokiriko as well as the ever popular Red and Blue Jam Blocks. We’ve taken delivery of extra Pearl Vision kits this week to satisfy a few of our customers taking advantage of the amazing free tom on the VBX kits.
We’ve had some of our shop faves come into stock too! The ever popular croaking frog and hooting owls are here now and they’re great little presents for anyone!
The guys in the shop have been putting the Spongebob Squarepants kit through it’s paces too! You can see some videos of us ripping up the poor little thing in our next post.
As usual we’ve had our mail order and internet deliveries going out across the country – everything from kits to cowbells!
Along with our usual drum kit servicing, we’ve just taken delivery of lots of spare marimba parts for one of the marching jazz bands that we regularly supply. Get in touch if you need spares yourself.
We’ve been playing djembes with a couple of customers this afternoon, sorting through some of the excellent Kambala Bassam djembes as well as Remo’s superb Earth djembes.
We had chance to pull one of bargain kits out of the warehouse and set it up on the shop floor and it’s a beast. Gretsch Catalina Stealth kit with a monsterous 24” Kicker in all black with black hardware. Shell pack only at £435 and you’ll not find it on the web as it’s an end of line bargain special. Give us a bell if you like the sound of it!
Our Friday Freebies prize draw will be drawn again tomorrow and there’s still a good bounty of prizes to go for! Last weeks winner won an i-pod, so there’s one less of those, but there’s still cymbals, pedals and much more for someone this side of Christmas.
The last of our 2008 model VX kits went today to a lucky young fella for Christmas. We’ve still got some clearance 2008 model QR kits available, but hurry as there’s only a few left!
Today’s music in the shop has been eclectic as ever! We’ve had a Basement Jaxx’s new album, Roxette, Dave Weckl Band and Speech Debelle on today, so we’re broadening our horizons in some respects! We’re lining up Extreme’s ‘Play with me’ for our last big tune of the day, as featured in ‘Bill and Ted’s excellent Adventure’. Most triumphant. ‘Elvis Sings Christmas’ is lined up for a little late night listening.
Keep it Christmas!
The Team @ NDC
