Tag: Bowers & Wilkins

This week’s episode features Le Freak Records in Dundee. “Record Store Day… it’s kind of like Halloween to a fancy dress shop, in terms of its the one week or month where you actually kins of feel like you’re making money!“ Jack LeFeuvre

“It’s a place that people come to, they can relax, they can find something if they’re feeling great, they can find something if they’re feeling blue, it’s just a staple of what a good community should be.” Sandy Bitman

This week’s episode features Flashback Records in London. “The great thing about working in a second hand record shop is that you’re not part of the whole sort of industry machine. You’re working within music, dealing with great music the whole time, but you’re not part of that whole horrible promotional machine that surrounds all of music it seems.” Mark Burgess

“We’ve always looked at ourselves as kind of being the epicentre of culture… If you are in the most musical city in North America, and art imitates life, then your record shop in New Orleans should be the epicentre for you know, all things local culture.” Lee Rea

“Our whole ethos has always been that we don’t want to be a stuffy music shop… we want everyone to feel comfortable, and definitely as a women who works in music, we want to go against that whole idea that record shops are very masculine.” Hannah Tinker

“Music Millennium has always been a community centre, if you go back in to the 50s and 60s, it was a place where, especially younger people, would gather. They could find out about new music, but they could also find out about all the cultural things that were going on at the time.” Terry Currier

"Even though I've been doing it for so long, it still doesn't really feel like a job, it's more of a passion, it's something I still enjoy doing everyday." Steve Meekings

“Independent record shops are important to a local community I think, a lot of them become a meeting place or kind of a cultural hub… being a place that shares music and art and things like that, I think is important to every community essentially.” Dan Drinkard

“It’s not work, it’s something I started because it’s precious to me, I love working in a record shop, I love meeting new people, I love turning people on to music” Jake Holloway.