Anybody remember Shades records the heavy metal specialist shop in St Annes Court,Wardour St?
Remember them very well - used to buy mail order when I was a kid and then broke all the rules on a sixth form study weekend in London to go. Was in heaven. Bet its not there now though.
Anybody remember Shades records the heavy metal specialist shop in St Annes Court,Wardour St?
Remember them very well - used to buy mail order when I was a kid and then broke all the rules on a sixth form study weekend in London to go. Was in heaven. Bet its not there now though.
Long gone donnyaddick,closed in 1992 and replaced with Chocci's Chunes a dance music shop
Back in the day (the 1970s) I used to frequent an excellent little record shop in Bexley Village. I can't for the life of me remember the name of said shop though. Can anybody remind me?
That was Elpees - they had one in Northumberland Heath for a while as well. The one in Bexley had a great Punk singles selection.
......what was the name of the record shop in Sidcup High Street; next to boots, opposite Woolworths? Remember buying Thompson Twins album on cassette in there in the '80's.
Anybody remember Shades records the heavy metal specialist shop in St Annes Court,Wardour St?
Like donnyaddick I used to order stuff mail order from there in my youth and visited a couple of times. Remember a guy called Kelv Hellrazer worked there, wrote for Metal Forces magazine. Wished he was from LA but probably came from Romford.
Anybody remember Shades records the heavy metal specialist shop in St Annes Court,Wardour St?
Like donnyaddick I used to order stuff mail order from there in my youth and visited a couple of times. Remember a guy called Kelv Hellrazer worked there, wrote for Metal Forces magazine. Wished he was from LA but probably came from Romford.
Met Tommy Vance in there!
Last album I bought from Shades was an import copy of Presto by Rush.
Anybody remember Shades records the heavy metal specialist shop in St Annes Court,Wardour St?
Like donnyaddick I used to order stuff mail order from there in my youth and visited a couple of times. Remember a guy called Kelv Hellrazer worked there, wrote for Metal Forces magazine. Wished he was from LA but probably came from Romford.
Shades was owned by a guy called Mike and yes Kelvin did work there,he also wrote for Metal Forces,lived in london and after leaving shades worked at the same place as me, he was a big Fan of POISON. Great bloke and knew tons of bands, had some good times with kelv. Had long peroxide hair what a dude.
Ahhh memories...25 years ago as a young whipper snapper, all my pocket money was spent Saturday mornings at TW Records in Plumstead and then onto The Valley in the afternoons...every other week
Back in the day (the 1970s) I used to frequent an excellent little record shop in Bexley Village. I can't for the life of me remember the name of said shop though. Can anybody remind me?
That was Elpees - they had one in Northumberland Heath for a while as well. The one in Bexley had a great Punk singles selection.
My mum worked in the one at Northumberland Heath, it was a great escape from Erith School many hours spent listening to unknown bands in the used section.
Morps Music in Lewisham was my heaven. Sadly long gone.
Are Sister Ray and Selectadisc in Berwick St still around.
Clem - Sister Ray is definitely still there, will have a look tomorrow for Selectadisc.
Sister Ray moved into the Selectadisc premises a few years ago. I think the Record & Tape Exchange is the only other music related shop hanging on in Berwick Street now.
I had many a happy day rummaging through the racks of the record shops on that street, & there used to be a fair few more that were around on Wardour St & around the Chinatown area. I used to love grabbing some of the promo albums that had been sold to the shops by journos. Always before official release & always dirt cheap! All of that is sadly gone now though!
Morps Music in Lewisham was my heaven. Sadly long gone.
Are Sister Ray and Selectadisc in Berwick St still around.
Clem - Sister Ray is definitely still there, will have a look tomorrow for Selectadisc.
Sister Ray moved into the Selectadisc premises a few years ago. I think the Record & Tape Exchange is the only other music related shop hanging on in Berwick Street now.
I had many a happy day rummaging through the racks of the record shops on that street, & there used to be a fair few more that were around on Wardour St & around the Chinatown area. I used to love grabbing some of the promo albums that had been sold to the shops by journos. Always before official release & always dirt cheap! All of that is sadly gone now though!
Fopp - Earlham Street, just off the Seven Dials. Stacks of £3/£5 CDs in all genres, as well as hundreds of DVDs. However, although it used to be an independent shop, it might be an offshoot of HMV.
Used to have a client in Tunbridge Wells & used to love going down there just to go to Ape - great little store, the staff obviously spent a lot of time writing up their own reviews & had a great selection of all sorts of music. Been a while since I was down there, but hope they're still going.
Morps Music in Lewisham was my heaven. Sadly long gone.
Are Sister Ray and Selectadisc in Berwick St still around.
Clem - Sister Ray is definitely still there, will have a look tomorrow for Selectadisc.
Sister Ray moved into the Selectadisc premises a few years ago. I think the Record & Tape Exchange is the only other music related shop hanging on in Berwick Street now.
I had many a happy day rummaging through the racks of the record shops on that street, & there used to be a fair few more that were around on Wardour St & around the Chinatown area. I used to love grabbing some of the promo albums that had been sold to the shops by journos. Always before official release & always dirt cheap! All of that is sadly gone now though!
Probably Cheapo Cheapo and Steve Sounds.
I spent an absolute fortune in both of those shops.....both now gone
Is cruisin records in welling/bexelyheath still going used to get all my soul/funk 12 inchers from there Used to be a good record shop in bexleyheath about where jd is now?
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Last album I bought from Shades was an import copy of Presto by Rush.
I had many a happy day rummaging through the racks of the record shops on that street, & there used to be a fair few more that were around on Wardour St & around the Chinatown area. I used to love grabbing some of the promo albums that had been sold to the shops by journos. Always before official release & always dirt cheap! All of that is sadly gone now though!
Saturday Mornings with the BromleyPunx in the late 70's........
(Still got all of the early Punk stuff).
Used to be a good record shop in bexleyheath about where jd is now?