When the music industry stopped Vincent Macklin found a lockdown fix Reuse and repair – online directory helps people with broken goods find menders
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‘People have been dragging out radios that have been lying in the barn for the past 40 years,’ says Vincent Macklin who began offering radio repair services during lockdown. Photograph: Courtesy Vincent Macklin
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Vincent Macklin has put The Chieftains, The Strypes and Paul Brady in the limelight during more than three decades running a stage sound and lighting company. But when the pandemic struck last year, the curtains suddenly fell on his unceasingly busy world.