Life, Vinyl & a Second Chance: Inside Cornwall’s Rotten Records Graham Jones visited the UK’s most Southern mainland record shops in Helston Cornwall to interview owners Nick and Ana. Tucked away down an alley on The Lizard, at the southern edge of Cornwall, Rotten Records isn’t just another independent record shop—it’s the result of resilience, […]
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Apr
Apr
Capsule Records is one of the many new shops to have opened in recent years and is already making a big impression on the South Coast, attracting music fans from near and far. Graham Jones asked co-owner Lawrence Bleach for the story behind the shop. The story so far We opened in March 2023 as […]
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Graham Jones paid a visit to the UK’s most South Westerly record shop ‘Far Land Records’. I called on this shop soon after it opened and its transformation in such a short time is impressive. Far Land Records is run by husband-and-wife duo Paul and Angela Noble, whose relationship began with a shared passion for […]
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Nov
Graham Jones is always keen to visit new record shops and recently paid a visit to Spin Sounds in Dorking. It is wonderful to see a new record shop open in Dorking, a town that always felt like it should have one. Spin Sounds has just celebrated its first year, but it is a shop […]
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Aug
It is always great to report on a new record shop opening but even more exciting to hear about a shop that specialises in jazz/blues and hip-hop that has opened in Glasgow. Graham Jones asked owners Alan and Carolyn Bonnyman about the store. We are a new, small, independent record shop based in the west […]
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Olaf’s Record Store opened in October 2020 – perhaps one of the less good times to open a retail store – only to find we were shut down less than a few weeks later due to Covid. That first day open was a strange experience with the shop busy with vinyl buyers desperate to shake […]