Our latest featured store is written by Graham Jones, Sales Representative. I took a trip over to the Isle of Wight to call on the wonderfully quirky Reggie’s Retro owned by Sharon Holloway and supported by Michael Sumner. Both have amazing backgrounds, so I asked them how they ended up owning a record shop. Sharon: […]
Tag Archives: independent record shop
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Nov
Nov
Tony Gaughan has a great music emporium in Glasgow called Blitzkrieg Shop. I asked him how the shop came about: “My musical memories started when my sister took me to the Glasgow Apollo Theatre in 1973 to see T-Rex, I was 9 years old. This and two Sweet shows in 1974 set me up for […]
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Aug
Aug
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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Nov
Nov
Record Store Day Black Friday takes place on the 27 November this year, and, although the lockdown measures will mean that no record shops in England will be able to open their doors, participating shops will be able to sell Black Friday exclusive titles online from 6pm. This year we’re distributing exclusive releases from artists […]
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Apr
Apr
In anticipation of what would have been Record Store Day 2020 this Saturday 18 April – the biggest day in the indie record shop calendar and sadly postponed due to coronavirus – OfficialCharts.com have launched a new interactive map showcasing how to support your local record shop, even when you can’t leave the house. Indie […]