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 […]
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Jan
Jan
Pictured above, back row: Lily, Natalie, Millie, Lillian and Craig. Front row: Luke and Emily. “The story of how a family run record shop has faced adversity and tragedy but with support from the local community are still bringing pleasure to the music fans of the Boston area” Fanatical Sunderland football fan Gareth Skinner has […]
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Dec
“It may not be a post office any more, but it still delivers” Situated in an area sometimes dubbed the North Norfolk Rivieria, Holt Vinyl Vault began life as a record shop based inside a working post office, where customers could browse the LPs while sub-postmaster and proprietor Andrew Worsdale served the queue of customers […]
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Nov
Nov
Taken from the book ‘The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made it Happen’ Vinyl Tap is located opposite Huddersfield train station. The shop had long been off the media’s radar, but that all changed on the day before Record Store Day in 2017, when Lauren Laverne broadcast her BBC 6 Music radio show live […]