Posted November 22, 200618 yr Manic Street Preachers have joined a campaign to save the world's oldest record shop. The group are backing a move to stop Spillers in Cardiff from closing, more than 100 years since the store opened. The store is reportedly set to go to the wall as a result of a dramatic rise in rent, prompting James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore to act. Spillers begun trading in 1894 and was the site of a number of busking gigs by Bradfield and Wire before the Manics became famous. In a statement, the band said: "Spillers was a lifeline, it gave us our musical education. The only record shop in Wales where we could find the music that made us who we are." A petition to save Spilers has apparently been launched in the store itself. Spillers is an institution... whatever you want, they'll have it... and the staff are well-informed and lovely. It's one of those criminally rare breed of record shop that actually cares... that actually loves music. It'd be a crying shame for the shop to close after all these years... the reason being that across the road, the Welsh Development Authority have decided to build yet another ugly, faceless, bland shopping centre.... hence the small shops have to pay for it... http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/about_spillers/182/
November 22, 200618 yr Manic Street Preachers have joined a campaign to save the world's oldest record shop. The group are backing a move to stop Spillers in Cardiff from closing, more than 100 years since the store opened. The store is reportedly set to go to the wall as a result of a dramatic rise in rent, prompting James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore to act. Spillers begun trading in 1894 and was the site of a number of busking gigs by Bradfield and Wire before the Manics became famous. In a statement, the band said: "Spillers was a lifeline, it gave us our musical education. The only record shop in Wales where we could find the music that made us who we are." A petition to save Spilers has apparently been launched in the store itself. Spillers is an institution... whatever you want, they'll have it... and the staff are well-informed and lovely. It's one of those criminally rare breed of record shop that actually cares... that actually loves music. It'd be a crying shame for the shop to close after all these years... the reason being that across the road, the Welsh Development Authority have decided to build yet another ugly, faceless, bland shopping centre.... hence the small shops have to pay for it... http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/about_spillers/182/ Good on the Manics for stepping up to the plate... It really totally disgusts me the way that councils treat independent traders, as if they dont have enough sh!t on their plate dealing with the big chains, they have to deal with local councils who place no value on these small, indie traders... I think it's obvious that local politicians are in the pockets of developers who just want to homogenise (or more specifically Americanise) everything.. It's happening in Chinatown and Camden Market as well.... As far as record shops go, my home town of Dundee used to have three indie record shops when I was growing up, now there are none (save for "Grouchos", but they're a second hand record/CD/DVD place..), Virgin and HMV killed off the independent record shops...
November 22, 200618 yr Good on the Manics for stepping up to the plate... yes good on them!!! did you see the guardian article on indie record shops the other week??? made intresting reading!!!
November 23, 200618 yr Reddingtons Rare Records in Birmingham closed down recently too. They were forced to move to new premises in Digbeth after failing to keep up with the rent a few years ago, and a couple of months ago they had to close up for good. After closure they put up all the records they couldn't sell outside the shop and allowed people to grab them for free. They now trade on the internet. http://www.reddingtonsrarerecords.co.uk/
November 24, 200618 yr That's what I liked about the Manics - they spoke up (or wrote songs) if they disagreed about something... it's just a shame they were always so outspoken :( I've dug out their Forever Delayed album and i'm giving it another listen atm ^_^
November 24, 200618 yr Author has anyone here ever been to Spillers? If you haven't, it's definitely recommended - a treasure trove of rarities and everything fairly priced - they seem to have everything you ask for, or if they don't have it - they'll get it for you in days. Amazing shop.
November 24, 200618 yr has anyone here ever been to Spillers? If you haven't, it's definitely recommended - a treasure trove of rarities and everything fairly priced - they seem to have everything you ask for, or if they don't have it - they'll get it for you in days. Amazing shop. Can you order off the Net from them....?
November 24, 200618 yr Author you can, Scott, yes... go to www.spillersrecords.co.uk .... my favourite shop in the world - you'd LOVE it, Scott.... whenever Morrissey's in town, he never fails to pop in... my friend worked there a few years ago and she nearly fainted when up walked Morrissey with a handful of George Formby CDs!
November 24, 200618 yr you can, Scott, yes... go to www.spillersrecords.co.uk .... my favourite shop in the world - you'd LOVE it, Scott.... whenever Morrissey's in town, he never fails to pop in... my friend worked there a few years ago and she nearly fainted when up walked Morrissey with a handful of George Formby CDs! I probably would mate, I just love wandering around these little indie record stores, but I'm kinda spoiled for choice in my manner (Camden) when it comes to that, there's about half a dozen or so small, specialist outlets... I'd kinda have to have a better reason to go all the way to Cardiff than just to walk around a record shop.... :lol: I'll check out the site though mate, cheers.....
November 24, 200618 yr Its all the well and good the Manics preaching and saying how great the store is but if it is in financial trouble then why don't THEY pay the rent ? they are multi millionaires as a result of record sales so instead of weasel words and shedding crocodile tears why don't they do something practical and help financially keep the store alive
November 25, 200618 yr Its all the well and good the Manics preaching and saying how great the store is but if it is in financial trouble then why don't THEY pay the rent ? they are multi millionaires as a result of record sales so instead of weasel words and shedding crocodile tears why don't they do something practical and help financially keep the store alive Hmmm, the same thing kinda crossed my mind too....
November 25, 200618 yr Hmmm, the same thing kinda crossed my mind too.... Yeah that was my first though that came through my mind, they could do a benefit gig for the place or something and the money raised from it go to help the store survive financially
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