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: […]
Category Archives: Featured Store
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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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Sep
Sep
Black City Records is Bristol’s newest vinyl retailer, joining the large number of independent record shops the city currently enjoys. What makes the store unique, not only among its Bristolian peers but across the whole of the South West is it is the only shop to specialise solely in Heavy Metal. Black City was conceived […]
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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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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 […]