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OK, wrong end of the Pennines for this Website but I was intrigued to discover that last weekend Warp Records had “re-opened” its Sheffield shop for one weekend only, as part of the Warp20 events to mark its 20th Anniversary. The revived shop was set up as a ‘pop-up shop’ in the Forum just across [...]
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 They still do, and 'kids' of all ages should be pleasantly surprised at just how many places in this city they can still buy records from. So this is our one-stop guide to the fantastic record shops of Greater Manchester, from the 'Vinyl Valley' that is Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter, to the windswept streets of Bolton, Lancashire. Browse the menu on the right hand side and go shopping! Contact Us and tell us what you think.
Please enjoy the site and Support your local record shops. Or if you haven't got any local record shops, come to Manchester and support ours.
Tony Wilson quote & image used with kind permission of the Wilson family. Support Oliver Wilson raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Visit www.justgiving.com/OliverWilson
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Doo Woppers, Hip Hoppers, Swamp Dogs, Soul Survivors and Funky Sisters get yourselves down to Tib Street and grab some vinyl delights. Beatin’ Rhythm has got a half price sale on all Soul, Funk, Disco, Philly and Sleaze Funk vinyl compilations (check out the BlunderBuss comps- cooking!) Price wise we are talking between a fiver and [...] Top Sheffield Crooner, Richard Hawley, will be promoting his new waxing, “Truelove’s Gutter”, with a special live Instore at Piccadilly Records at 4pm on 22 September. Its free to get in, but you’ll need an advance ticket if you want to catch Richard ‘givin’ it some ballad’, so be quick. March up to the shop [...] And so it came to be…rumours and whispers drifted across the late summer afternoons, swirling around the Oldham Street detritus and buzzing anxiously through the windows of Manchesters’ soul brothers, beat junkies, funk merchants and just plain old believers. I consciously chose not to believe it, swatting away the ides of August with the Evil [...] “Where would the music industry be without record shops? It is they who support new music and local talent. Nowhere is this more evident than in Manchester where the shops of the city have been at the forefront of introducing so many great bands to the world. But record retailing is an industry in crisis. I highlight in my book Last Shop Standing (Whatever Happened To Record Shops?) the reasons why 540 independent record shops have closed in the last 4 years alone. As somebody who lived in Walkden for 5 years Manchester record shops have always been close to my heart Our first Shop Chart is up and thanks to Goff over at Wowie Zowie for feeding us a veritable gator stew of Swamp Rock and Voodoo Blues. I can’t recommend the Simon Strokes record highly enough and if you want it… well you better get in the shop before me. Finish off that bowl of [...] Just over a week after we reported the closure of Fat City, we’re pleased to announced we’ve found another new shop which had up till now slipped under our radar; the very groovy ‘Wah Wah’ shop in Stockport. The shop only threw open its doors 12 weeks ago, check it out here. |
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