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
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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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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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 […]
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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
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 […]