Lucky’s Record Bar opened on June 26th 2021 in a tiny space in the old Buttermarket in Redruth, Cornwall. Proper Music’s Graham Jones paid a visit and reckoned it is the smallest record shop in England. The smallest record shop in the UK is VOD Music in Mold, North Wales. He asked owner Kevin Downing […]
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Jul
Jul
Graham Jones asks Paul Maskell, owner of The Beat And Track, “What was it like to open a record shop during Covid?” My anticipated first-day-of-trading apprehension dissolved just as soon as my first customer stepped through the door at 9.00am. ‘Mr Kingsmill’ as he was then known , Rich as he is now known, promptly […]
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Mar
Mar
Will Webster found his way into the music industry via the job centre. In Will’s case it was in Bristol and he started off working in Virgin Records as a singles buyer. In the 80s nearly every record shop had a singles buyer. The sales rep from Island records mentioned to Will one day that […]
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Aug
Aug
The wonderfully named Winyl, specialises in vegan and organic wines, providing easy drinking product for the 3.5m people in the UK that have chosen a vegan diet. The vinyl range is wide reaching and a dynamic mix of vintage and new. Whilst the store is snug, the vibe is relaxed where you can come and […]
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Jun
Jun
Music’s Not Dead is not just a record shop. It is a mission statement that owner Del Querns lives by. Del was a long-time employee of Powerplay, a chain of record shops on the south coast. The owners had decided to close the business down, saying that record retailing was dead. Del was not convinced […]
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May
May
Roger Mortimer, owner of Sound Knowledge, is a Wiltshire lad, born in Melksham in 1959. He tuned into music at a young age, having an older brother and sister, and spent his early years listening to their musical purchases, including the Beatles, the Stones and Otis Redding. The listening habit developed during summer holidays spent […]