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 […]
Category Archives: Featured Store
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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 […]
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Apr
Apr
When successful TV and film editor Kieran Smyth realized he no longer wanted to be a successful TV and film editor, he turned to the thing he’d always loved: music, and especially vinyl records. “I’ve lived in Kentish Town since 2005 and had always thought it would be great to have a really good record […]
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Mar
Mar
Owned by Derry Watkins and Natasha Youngs, Resident Music is one of the world’s best record shops. It was winner of England’s Favourite Independent Record Shop in a poll organised for Record Store Day. It’s a far cry from the day before they opened, when Natasha, perched halfway up a ladder painting the shop, heard […]