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
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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Jul
Jul
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 […]
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Jun
Jun
It is always a pleasure to visit Bridport, a town full of independent shops. The purpose of my visit was to call in on a corking record shop Clocktower Records. Owner Roy Gregory is a fellow fan of Birkenhead’s finest football team Tranmere Rovers and one of their most famous bands, Half Man Half Biscuit. […]
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Mar
Mar
Graham Jones recently checked out Dig Vinyl who have two branches one in Liverpool and the second shop which is taking part in RSD based in West Kirby. He caught up with Carl and the team and asked about the history of the shop Dig Vinyl has been at the heart of Liverpool’s music scene […]
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Nov
Nov
How and why did you buy the shop? Both of us have been metal fans since young children and owing a record store has always been a dream of ours. After Ben was made redundant in 2022 he decided that he wanted to change career paths. After doing several graphic design courses, one of which […]