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I’ve listened to the Royal High School public inquiry each day and listened is the key word here rather than watched. Having recently moved and emptied a loft and a container I have dozens of shop-related boxes to go through and some haven’t seen the light of day for over 20 years.

Every now and again I’ll put a picture on Twitter and it gets a far bigger reaction than expected. This week was one of those times and I can only think that it spoke to the ongoing issues over the Ross Bandstand and the use of Princes Street Gardens.

We now seem to live in a world where minorities are taking the majority of decisions or the minority is seen as the majority!

While there is much talk about cycling in Edinburgh it will always be a minority interest for getting around while unsurprisingly walking is something we all do. There are plans to make Edinburgh city centre a more pleasurable place to walk around of course with pedestrianisation high on the list.

I moved house last Friday, which is why there was no column last week. For those asking, it didn’t go well and more on that once the lawyers give me the all-clear! One thing I did end up doing was going through lots of old stuff and even I had forgotten just how different things used to be selling music.

I know I mentioned the Old Town Business Improvement District last week but I make no apologies for saying more now. The BID needs a new project manager and the application deadline has just ended. Worryingly, the 12-month contract is only for 25 hours a week.

Edinburgh hasn’t been short on controversy recently and this week was no exception with the now they’re up, now they’re down, now they’re up sometimes and a bit lower black boards blocking views of Princes Street Gardens and the Castle.

Saturday, 13 October has been declared National Album Day and while many will see it as a cynical marketing ploy there is actually much merit in listening to an album as an artist intended.

It is sometimes forgotten amongst all the Leith Theatre and IMPACT Centre publicity that Edinburgh has a similar sized venue already fully operational, if in need of some TLC.

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award longlist was announced this week and while I’m not its biggest fan there are definitely albums worth your attention. Truth be told the older established artists have produced the best albums and therein lies the quandary for the judges.

There used to be a rule in the music industry that bands shouldn’t release their albums during the summer when folk went on holiday and this basically stretched from the middle of July to the last week of September when there would suddenly be a rush of albums geared towards all the students either starting or returning to university and college.

Janet Archer, the chief executive of Creative Scotland, may have resigned but it is hard to imagine things being much different whoever takes on the considerable task of trying to restore confidence in an organisation described in an inquiry by a Holyrood committee last month as having a funding system that fell “well below” the standard expected of a public body.

Good news hopefully on the small venue front with the announcement from Glen Rowe and his Neko Trust charity that they will be looking to launch a small venue in Edinburgh.

I’ve known the jazz musician John Burgess since as a young man he came in the shop to sell his record collection.

An older American couple managed to make three of the points that crop up regularly in my column in one short conversation.

It is no great surprise that there has been renewed interest in the permanent Scottish music exhibition centre I have been working on for the last three years, given all the publicity for the opening of the National Museum of Scotland’s Rip It Up exhibition.

Avalanche has always had a very successful social media presence and in particular a popular Twitter account. I hope that I come up with some decent original content myself but I also have to thank many other accounts that provide an endless source of news, facts and entertainment all day and felt it was time to pay my dues.

I try hard to limit my columns about the high street but this week’s news that both Poundworld and House of Fraser are struggling has got everyone talking about whether it’s all over now, just as the Rolling Stones arrive in town.