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Post by doug61 on Feb 8, 2022 12:31:25 GMT
Very much enjoying this admittedly Londoncentric history of the Record shop....  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 8, 2022 14:07:03 GMT
That looks wonderful Doug
Thanks
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Post by personunknown on Feb 9, 2022 9:35:36 GMT
Looks like Bjork on the cover. Stewart Lee has been in my shop a couple of times, he does buy some right rubbish.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 9, 2022 9:56:22 GMT
Deffo Bjork
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Post by doug61 on Feb 9, 2022 15:47:33 GMT
Can't recommend this one enough. Cracking book, am up to the early 70's period of reggae shops around Brixton and in Hanway Street, London (round the back of the original Virgin Oxford Street store) Used to buy records in Hanway Street myself back in the day.
If you ever bought records in London, it really is a must read. The Jazz period is fascinating too, looking forward to getting to the punk period.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 9, 2022 15:59:25 GMT
Can't recommend this one enough. Cracking book, am up to the early 70's period of reggae shops around Brixton and in Hanway Street, London (round the back of the original Virgin Oxford Street store) Used to buy records in Hanway Street myself back in the day. If you ever bought records in London, it really is a must read. The Jazz period is fascinating too, looking forward to getting to the punk period. Hanway Street is a great little road There was some crazy little Spanish bar down there in the 1990s which I loved You've convinced me about the book's merits Doug |
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Post by jsm on Feb 10, 2022 22:42:25 GMT
I see Cartwright has another book on the same theme. Probably a lot of repetition, repetition, repetition?
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Post by wardance on Feb 11, 2022 18:13:09 GMT
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Post by doug61 on Feb 12, 2022 12:50:29 GMT
Some okay prices til you see postage is a tenner. |
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Post by jsm on Mar 16, 2022 1:53:05 GMT
I bought this book. Postage from England to Australia was GBP1.27. No idea how they could do it for that price.
It's a great book and I'd love to see something like it about the many record shops that used to be in Sydney. Nowhere near as many as London, of course, but some very of them were pretty idiosyncratic.
I haven't finished yet, but there are so many good stories. I like the one about the record store in A Clockwork Orange that was in a building called the Chelsea Drugstore, which also featured in The Rolling Stones song 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'.
Fantastic version of the song from Rock and Roll Circus
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Post by jsm on Mar 18, 2022 4:14:53 GMT
I've almost finished the book. There is no mention of PU's shop in Scarborough, so obviously the author has not done his homework. Otherwise, I have enjoyed it very much. I've only been to the UK once and didn't visit any record shops on that occasion. But have had vicarious experience and own several records from shops like Small Wonder and Rough Trade. I have purchased vinyl from various UK record shops online in more recent years, but my only contact back in the day was with an outfit called Oldies Unlimited. They were based in Telford and used to advertise in the NME. I wrote to them in 1977 or maybe 1978, and ordered a mystery box of 100 reggae singles. Several months later it arrived and I was amazed to see that the postage they had paid was about the same as the full amount I had sent them. Obviously, the postage they advertised was for in the UK not for Australia, but they sent it to me anyway. So, I was disappointed that Oldies Unlimited did not get a mention in the book. I looked them up on ye olde interweb and it seems they were well-known at least into the late 1980s. A shop with the same name but different location closed last year, but I am not sure if it was the same shop. Anyways, I found someone online that had one of their old flyers from the late 80s. By then you could only get 25 reggae singles at a time.
Read more here:
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Post by personunknown on Mar 18, 2022 7:10:00 GMT
I vividly remember Oldies Unlimited, they were one of the few places you could get ex chart singles. Such was the production of music in the seventies that when a record left the top fifty, the shops dependent on their size would send them back to the distributor or warehouse them. I can only remember the big Virgin stores actually keeping selected oldies, there would be an empty card sleeve with like a union Jack design on and the song title and artist written on it in felt pen. You'd take that to the counter and on several occasions you'd hear cursing and mumbling because they couldn't find it and you'd leave empty handed. The Oldies Unlimited link mentions Simon's Records in Nottingham, I lived there all my teen and young adult years but I can't remember it.
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