London Record Shops (List of - Can you add to this?)

[bullit]

Okay, so **I moved to London** then moved out to *Turkey* but here is the list.

**Shops i know of so far (are all of these still running?)**

**- Selectors Emporium (Brixton Hill)
- Honest Johns (Notting Hill)
- Sounds of the Universe (Broadwick Street W1)
- Peckings Studio One Shop (Askew Rd, Shepherds bush)
- Sister Rays (Berwick St)
- Dub Vendor (Notting Hill tube station or is this at Ladbroke Rd station?)
- Dub Vendor in Clapham Junction (Lavender Hill?)
- Massive Records (Camden town)**
- *Reckless Records (CLOSED/GONE)*
**- Revival Records (Berwick St)
- Nudge (Hanbury St, E1)
- Haggle (Haggle Vinyl, 114 Essex Road, Islington
London, N1 8LX)
- Alans Records (East Finchley, Check opening times)
- HMV (Oxford St)**
- *Daddy Kools (CLOSED/GONE)*
**- Music Temple Records (Brixton Village)
- Out On The Floor Records (Camden)
- Supertone Records (Brixton Acre Lane)
- CJ's Music Specialist (Balham, South London)
- Unknown (Whitechapel High Street)
- Spitalfields Market Record Fair (E1) - every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month
- Blacker Dread (coldharbour lane , Brixton)
- Supertone (Acre lane, Brixton)**

[Chris]

I'm going to be visiting London in Jan. and I was also hoping for some suggestions for shops. Thanks for posting the topic Bullit and I'm looking forward to the replies.

Chris

[Rootsman]

Daddy Kools gone, Reckless Records gone (although another 2nd hand record shop now on premise)

[ital kemar]

cjs music specialist in balham, south london. 2 stops on train from dub vendors clapham junction shop. good little shop. there was also a good shop on whitechapel high street, cant remember name, but a good selection too.

ital kemar

[6anbatte]

Revival Records is now where Reckless Records used to be in Berwick Street. I've picked up some absolute gems from here. They'll wet clean albums for £1 an album as well.

Nudge in Hanbury Street E1 is an absolute must visit. If you go there you can nip through to Rough Trade in Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane.

Alan's Records in East Finchley - you do need to check he is open before you go though.

Incidentally, you can walk down Berwick Street to Sister Ray's come out and turn left down the hill a couple of doors to Revival Records, out of there and turn left down Berwick Street turn left into Broadwick Street to Sounds Of The Universe. They are that close to each other.

You could start at HMV in Oxford Street if you wanted as that is 5 mins for Sister Ray's!

Nudge, Revival and Alan's are 2nd hand. Sister and Sounds tend to be reissues. They do have some 2nd hand albums, but, that said, I have never bought anything 2nd hand from either of them.

As you are in Notting Hill Honest John's is an absolute must visit for reissue vinyl and CDs. They do often have 2nd hand vinyl, but don't advertise it.

Haven't bought anything from Dub Vendor in Clapham in years.

[bullit]

Thank you for all the info, updated the list a little.. Looking forward to all this.

[Rootsman]

So Bullit, where in London are you moving too?

And what prompted your to move to our great capital?

Dave

[bullit]

Probably Notting Hill/Kensington/Ladbroke Grove/Bayswater/Hammersmith/Kensal Green/Shepherds Bush Area, will know for sure by about Dec 14th as im exploring then and finding the place.

Moving there with girlfriend who is starting a course there, starting a new life, fresh beginnings. Can study my course anywhere so im free in that regard.. Record shops and excitement for 6 months, then could stay there for longer but could be anywhere.

New places, new adventures, feels a bit stale around here at the moment, could fade into oblivion without even starting. So its london with the lady and in a few years will probably move somewhere totally random, pick a place on the map and go there stylee.

Where abouts are you Dave?

[Rootsman]

Hi Bullit,

Sounds like your keeping options pretty open and the areas you are looking at are pretty diverse. Are ypu looking at these location based on your love of reggae?

I personally come from Bow in East London, although most of my time was spent around the Hackney and Stoke Newington areas which is where most of my friends lived, its was also a hotbed for the reggae music scene with a generpous helping of clubs, record shops and so on.

I know reside in Dagenham in Essex but am also hoping to move out of the area some time in the not too distant future.

Where are you at prsent bullit?

[6anbatte]

Ah, almost forgot!! No idea how that happened as I was there on Friday!

Spitalfields Market Record Fair (E1) - every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month! Definitely worth a visit as they do have some superb stuff there.

You can then nip across to Nudge and then through to Rough Trade!