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3 weeks i leave for london, any good eats, record stores anyone recomends?
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good. How long will you be in London for? When is it exactly you're leaving?
So i know when i can come back. Till then ..bye! |
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youre awesome lets grab a beer
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we have mcdonalds here so you'll be ok for breakfast ![]() ![]() but on a serious note try and check out this record shop Second Layer Records 323 Archway Road Highgate London N6 5AA |
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sweet what kinda stuff is there
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http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/shop-opening.asp Over 3,000 titles in stock covering * noise * power-electronics * DIY underground * free-folk * avant-garde * post-punk * hardcore * garage-punk * avant-rock * free-jazz/improv * psychedelia * world/traditional * metal * outsider * krautrock * electronica * industrial * and generally music that defies categorisation. |
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the only really essential record shops in london are:
second layer/sound 323 sounds of the universe and if you want to check out some grime then uptown or rhythm division |
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One London record shop to rule them all, one record shop to bind them, and in the darkness FIND THEM:
Sister Ray http://www.sisterray.co.uk/index.php...40b73b567533b0 34-35 Berwick Street, London, W1F 8RP Berwick Street used to have the highest concentration of record shops in London. Alot of them have closed down due to reduced sales, but theres still a good few there. Sister Ray is a retailer for NEW vinyl however, therefore the more expensive of the shops. Try Revival Records and Music And Video Exchange for cheaper, second hand records. They're both also on Berwick Street. Not sure if your an Oasis fan DNAINTHEDNA, but the front cover photograph of Whats The Story Morning Glory is of Berwick Steet. To get there, walk out of Leicester Square as if you were going to Picadilly Circus, and look for Rupert Street on your right. Walk up Rupert Street, past a whole load of Sex Shops and you're there. Highly reccomended. |
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you all are awesome, thanks
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ray's jazz in foyle's bookshop might be worth a look, but it is EXPENSIVE
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and revival on berwick street is as good as you'll find for second hand stuff.
and flashback on essex road. |
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Rough Trade in Notting Hall is always nice, if only for sentimental reasons. The one off Brick Lane has a better selection but is a bit soul-less, and populated by people that look like Badly Drawn Boy.
Downstairs on saturday afternoons at Black Market records in Soho is great fun - but is strictly Drum and Bass, so may not be your thing. a good one-of-a-kind record shopping experience, nonetheless. |
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rough trade is ok, but you won't find anything there that you can't find anywhere else. it's really a compromise between the real underground stuff and then stuff you can find in HMV.
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honestly record shopping in foreign lands is becoming an increasingly pointless excercise. What with Amazon.
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and if you're american there's almost no point buying records here unless you want grime or dubstep because everything else will be far cheaper back home
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Yeah, agreed about the cost thing. Saying that, going to less obvious places in the US can dig up some great local bands that would be impossible to get elsewhere. Picked up some great local punk stuff in Columbus Ohio that I'd never heard of before, or since.
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really? what did you get?
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it may be pointless in europe but when i was in tokyo i found so much shit i could never find on my my own surfin da nets
2000 dollars in records spent |
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T&B^^Mostly CD-Rs. Would have to delve into the crates for specific names, but some nice stuff amongst them. Nothing incredible, but that's hardly the point. America has tons of these local scenes that feature bands that'd be lucky to get a mention even in something like Maximum Rock and Roll. There's gold in them there hills (not that there was that many hills in Ohio).
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Have you heard Necropolis? I got a 7" by them that is cool.
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