Richard Hawley

Yanks is a gym now! I can see it from my window.

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I'm not denying, that I was trying, to appear nonchalant

aye cod, the one near midland hotel but the other side of st peters square down oxford road, the building next door was originally a 1920's cinema, if you look at the second floor you used to be able to see the name but it's a while since i looked.
davenports used to have blues and jazz and country and rock n roll, george once told me he'd never seen anyone but me buy stuff in all the sections.
black sedan was a very very long time ago. and eighth day is the wholefood cafe still there in all saints. that was hippy central back when i was a lad.
the one downstairs near deansgate was the one luther remembers, robinson's records. i bought all my cut-out little walter albums there. and my copy of the pistols holiday in the sun in the picture sleeve.
the old old hmv on market street upstairs was great cos derek used to run the singles counter and he was and is a top soulboy. he now runs one of the finest shops in england, http://www.beatinrhythm.com/ on tib street. and the guy who ran the album bit was a ted so he always had good rock n roll in there.

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thanks for all that both of you - it got me searching Robinsons - came up with this on an 808 state board;
Pandemonium was run by a Certain George Davenport, he moved to Newton Heath and was recently threatened with eviction: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/174
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also about him;
many years ago in pandemonium, above Babylon pizza next to the poly he would have records that were freely available in HMV and if you asked him how much he'd always say £30, or he'd record it on tape for you for £1 a side! he used to charge 50p just to go in at one stage. very odd.

ha ha thank fuck for the ecentrics

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"Come back tomorrow night and try it again"

We used to have a bootleg stall int he market back in the 80's - got loads of live gigs from there - the only one I can remember now though is The Mission. Unfortunately the bloke got caught and sent to prison so that put a stop to that!

No, I don't remember that one, I wouldn't have known what it meant as I had a very sheltered childhood.

I started going into Migrant Mouse about 1972, I felt really grown up and hadn't a clue who most of the records were by. That was the start of my muscial education, and I'm still learning.

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Love is so hard to find
And even harder to define

Blimey i had a bootleg of the Mission on tape, can't remember what gig though, but it was the must have for all Mission fans back then. Went to see them at the Colliseum in Leeds in maybe 1990 & thought Wayne Hussey was god.......oh how sad was that!!!!

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& stay awhile.
We can close our eyes, Love
& let the dreams come softly.

I remember seeing the Mission at Keele University on Wayne Hussey's birthday and a naked goth-type lady with a rose up her bottom came on stage and gave him a kiss, after which he removed aforesaid rose.

As a young lad, I was quite overcome with all this rock'n'roll excess, (and as were the majority of the rest of the audience) as you can quite imagine.

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Ooh poor lady, lets hope the thorns had been removed as for kissing Wayne i guess i would have been jealous back then, tho now thinks aforementioned Mr Hussey looked a bit of a mess. I must have had too many pints of Cider & Black when i saw them as i cannot recall anything of the gig, apart from lots of arm waving.

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Look into my eyes
& stay awhile.
We can close our eyes, Love
& let the dreams come softly.

It seems that vinyl is gaining in popularity - at least 7"!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7750581.stm

(Is it just me or is the Rough Trade picture of their 7" counter displaying 12"? )

I saw the Mish at Manchester Apollo in 1990, they were great live.
Lots of young ladies "kissed" Wayne Hussey (including one lass at our school apparently) - goth ladies to loved him, I always thought he looked like a potato.

For the Manchester crew - I also remember the rather lovely King Bee records in Chorlton. Mrs SPT worked int he toyshop next door for a bit. Dunno if it's still there...

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Herdmans chemists in Cramlington used to have loads of cheap singles so I remember mooching there - all sorts of odd shops used to have odd boxes of singles in those days for no apparent reason. In Newcastle it was Pet Sounds later (there was the shop in the Haymarket which might have been called something else but was linked to the other one near the station). Windows was always good for browsing and in the seventies and eighties HMV and Virgin still had huge stocks and kept things you can only get online or in specialist shops these days.

Rocks Off in Rochdale was always great (think it's still there) when I first started buying records. I remember they kept a few Dead Kennedys records on one side for me as they'd seen I'd bought some previously and reckoned I'd be back for more! They weren't wrong...

Oh and I have fond memories of buying REM bootlegs from Clampdown Records in Manchester when it was under the Corn Exchange.

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Chris

both still there mate, king bee records and busy bee toy shop, i live round the corner from them. king bee is brill, proper shop with jazz and blues and pop and rock and 50's and 60's and soul and reggae lots of vinyl. twangy bought his copy of harry j's "the liquidator" (which i covet) in there.

http://www.kingbeerecords.co.uk/

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I remember Revolver and Selectadisc...I used to shop there for my Bowie and Tubes stuff many years ago.

More local to me were two record shops which disappeared way back in the mid 1970's. One was called 'Phelps' located in Matlock Bath; when I was a skint 11 year old, I used to drool over Hawkwind albums that I could never afford. Seem to think they cost around £2.15 each. The gulf between that and what I could earn on my evening paper round was immense! The other was called 'Pickadisc' and was situated in Matlock Town Center (when we had one), and lasted for what seemed like less than a year. I was 13 at time and remember buying Bowie's Aladdin Sane album with the cash I had for my birthday. I think I still have it somehwere in the house.

We used a to have a branch of Hudson's in Matlock but that closed many years ago. I think the only branch left is Chesterfield. The demise of local record stores (or any kind of shop) is very sad. Matlock used to have Hi-Fi and photo stores, but not any more. Just lately, there seems to be premisies boarded up each week. Its looking more and more like Tumbleweed town. A worrying sign of the times...
Cheers, Steve.