Shopping for Music in the North West of England
Piccadilly Records have a live in-store performance from Cymbals Eat Guitars coming up on Wednesday November 17th at 6pm. The Staten Island combo will be playing an acoustic set to plug their rather fine ‘Why There Are Mountains’. This is guitar pop with blasts of Sonic Youth, Pavement and the Pixies but laden with pop […]
We’ve got another shop review for you, and it’s another absolute corker. Our man Carl went to Bury Old Road instead of Bury New Road, but eventually found his way to Prestwich village and located the amazing, and aptly named, Endless Music. Judging from his review, it’s fair to say he was suitably impressed by […]
We’ve another new Top 10 added to our ‘charts’ section, this time kindly provided by Andy from Piccadilly Records, and a very fine and all-encompassing selection it is too. Everything from Space Rock, “proper” Indie (i.e not of landfill variety), to groovesome Funk and a certain Scottish band from the 80s, fond of standing on […]
OK it’s not in Manchester…but we couldn’t resist a feature on this Tardis-like record shop in North Wales. Well what’s a digger meant to do when he has been working all day in Wales and gets off early…..go and visit what is reputably the UK’s smallest record shop that’s what. Nestled on the corner of […]
Tonight, Friday 2nd October between 11pm and 12am our man Carl will be appearing on the Anthony Cranks show on BBC Radio Manchester (95.1FM or listen live here) to review this weeks new single releases. Tune in and see if he can slip in a cheeky plug or two for this ‘ere website. Good Luck […]
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 […]
“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
No sooner have we started this venture then one of the great Manchester institutions, Fat City, have announced they have left Manchester to move operations down south to somewhere called London?. I believe its a small village in Kent, so hope they appreciate them down there. A real shame to see them leave Oldham Street […]
