My friend Oli is opening a record shop, good news I think!
http://m.facebook.com/home.php?r117da34 ... 66&refid=7

Somewhere nice to go to in boro for once...

It opens this weekend I've been informed.

Loads of idiot savant lp's and some field mice ones...... ;)

Good Luck to him, hope he makes a go of it...there have been seven seperate attempts to open Record Shops on Teesside in the last few years. Only "Sound It Out" remains.

Indeed guv!

I think it will work though.
He's gonna have sofas, tea, coffee, sell mags, books, cd's etc... generally be a nice place to hang out!

Ace idea. I'll be one of his first customers.

Specialist vinyl shops, with maybe a few CDs on the side, are the way forward. Bit of extra revenue from coffee and mags won't do any harm at all. If he lets you listen to stuff all the better!

for making the effort and I'll definitely call in next time I'm in the area. That isn't often mind so he'd better get some other customers as well.

It's on linthorpe rd btw, opposite psyche...

I'll make a point of spitting on the prentious load of shite that Psyche is. That twat who owns it does my crust in..he was on the radio a few months ago bragging about his great Northern Soul Collection...load of ten-bob charity-shop 45's more like. Knows Nowt.

I've never set foot in there ever.
Don't think I'd suit them clothes....

He should have little booths where you can listen to the records...... hang on didn't we used to have them.

You want friendly well informed record shop owners who aren't up their own arses. There's one in Toulouse called Labo where the owner is into latin stuff and US indie rock but he stocks anything decent he can get on vinyl- new or second hand. Always has a chat, remembers what you've bought before and recommends new stock that you might like. Doesn't over price or pretend that records are in excellent condition when they're really good at best. He shifted loads of old reggae a while back because he got the collection cheap and was happy to get €3 for a single instead of pretending it was super rare and sitting it on his website for years.

Little booths or just turntables with headphones or one turntable and no snobbery will do.

Bingo!

Good luck to him, is this Oli who was in the Idiots??

Yup, the very same olbo!

Close to where Alan Fearnleys was if Im not mistaken

Indeed..

Is it in the Old Panasonic showroom on Linthorpe? Good luck to your mate, not many specialists left now, my local Dam records shut ages ago and used to often have bands playing live in store.
Hope your mate is aware of the Poundland of CDs and Dvds, Thats Entertainment is open in Boro in the old Poundland on Captain Cooks square, still big market for Vinyl to them in the know!

I dunno what the shop was in the past... I'm sure it'll be a success!

You can't buy owt good to listen to in a pound shop........

Will there be any Bucks fizz or Nolan sisters works

Yes, there will be a full back catalogue of every eurovision song contest entrant in history.*






























*this is untrue

Mercifully, jedwards back catalogue is titchy/non existant...!