Lost record shops of Glasgow

[Cyclo2000]

Gosh.

Not a record shop at all but Hamilton was something of a cultural desert apart from Impulse and
The Bell Book and Candle.
Hippy shop with branches in EK and Almada street. Sold books, candles and err...bells. Incense actually. Ho Ho! Get the polis!

[cozycoupe]

okay going outside the city centre....
I remember standing drooling at Midge Ure (in Slik days) as a kid while he bought guitar strings at the Music House in Rutherglen. They had another branch in Bridgeton.
Great wee local shop...moved from Hamilton Road to the Mitchell Arcade when it was a nice shopping centre.
Spent a LOT of my pocket money there.

[neilmc]

Looks like Fopp could be joining the ranks of lost record shops:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.j ... opp124.xml

[JayKay]

...just a matter of days since a branch opened in Cumbernauld

[tobester]

My dad gets inundated with phone calls for people phoning the shop in byres road.

One digit different between his and theirs but people read the number wrongly.

Funnily enough his old neighbour had the same problem with Two Fat Ladies, it was the 3 digit code people got wrong

[Dexter St. Clair]

It was cash only in the Tottenham Court Road branch today. I left with 5 albums and a 12" which may possibly be heard at the mod weeKender.


http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6015

[ymc]

I remember Bell, Book and Candle too - at least the EK shop in Olympia Arcade. Lots of books, bric-a-brac and, yes, curious incense

Interestingly, I'm almost certain they were run by the now Minister of Armed Forces, Adam Ingram's wife Maureen as I used to deliver their papers when they lived in Greenhills, EK so I knew them to speak to.

From memory, I don't think the shops lasted too long.

[simon803]

I remember buying heavy metal postcards in the east kilbride bell book and candle in the mid-late 80's. there was also a pretty decent second hand store (more like 5 boxes of 80's indie 12"s) in a little arcade in the village around '88 or '89.
but back to glasgow... most of my youth was spent in missing in oswald street. the original one, after it moved from the barras.
rubadub used to be in the virginia galleries before moving to it's current locale.
I actually owned a short lived record store in the basement of flip on queen street between 1997 and 2000. it specialised in import underground punk and hardcore. I was slammed by the internet.
as an aside I have very fond memories of entire saturdays spent in the virgin on union street. I'd get the train in, buy a ticket for an upcoming show then spend most of the afternoon hanging out in the skate shop on the top floor watching videos and listening to minor threat and suicidal tendencies.

[JayKay]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stm

Union st branch was shut this morning.

[Sharon]

The bad man made me do it

[JayKay]

[red_kola]

when Music Zone went under, Fopp got all their remining stock cheap. Music Zone were heavily in debt. Fopp set up a company called 'MZ2007' to deal with this and compartmentalise it away from the main Fopp company. the distributors weren't having this - and stated that Fopp, not the new company were responsible for the MZ debt. Fopp refused to pay. All the distros simply cut Fopp out of everything until they were paid for the Music Zone debt. hence no stock, and now no stores.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Note the late night opening especially for DJs on their way to le palais de dance.







That's what I call service. Call them up and get the latest remixes played over the phone.

[blackhack]

there was a Bruces record shop in Duke st that later became Tom Russells,i remember the wee red paper bags that the 7" singles came in...i found it at bruces,im sure there was also one on shettleston rd too

[JayKay]

there was a Bruces record shop in Duke st that later became Tom Russells,i remember the wee red paper bags that the 7" singles came in...i found it at bruces,im sure there was also one on shettleston rd too

I'm pretty sure there was a Tom Russells branch in Shettleston Rd so that makes sense.