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  4. Selectadisc

    in 80's Nottingham

    Posted

    We missed off Phil Large from the employee role, he went from there to rep for Island, and possibly others, and in fact I saw him a few months back

    Your thinking of Little & Large Craig !! try Phil Long he went on to run the Blue Note club in Derby. When i was a youth he used to go out with my sister i still have loads of island 7" records all with " DJ COPY NOT FOR RESALE " stamped on them .

  7. Selectadisc

    in 80's Nottingham

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    Selectadisc owner explains why it must close

    A LEGENDARY Nottingham music store will shut its doors at the end of March.

    Selectadisc, which in its 40-year history has championed new music and hosted a slew of music greats, will close in a month. The Market Street shop is now holding a clearance sale.

    "We've been trying to avoid this for two years," said owner Phil Barton, who bought the shop two years ago when closure loomed. "The shop has been basically uneconomic for the last two years. We've been trying to keep it going more as a social service than as a normally functioning business.

    There comes a point where you just say 'I cannot do this any more.'

    "Unfortunately people are consuming their music in different ways and they are not using independent music shops in the same way. Ninety-five percent of the traded music in the world is trading for free on-line.

    "When you have the downloads, the fixed costs remaining the same, the downturn in the music industry, the downturn in the worldwide economy all conspiring together - a business that is on a knife edge suddenly becomes a business that is never going to make any money."

    It's a trend happening around Britain, he noted. Ten years ago, the country had more than 1,000 independent music stores. Last year, there were 410. Now there are 305. So cold economic realities come down on a shop that has been the beating heart of new music in Nottingham.

    "Selectadisc in this town has been a focal point for new music for 40 years," he said. "Every new genre of music that has come out has been championed by this shop."

    The roll-call of musicians who have turned up for intimate gigs is an impressive one. Over the years The Clash, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller and the Ramones all played Selectadisc. More recently the Magic Numbers and the Kooks have turned up.

    But that doesn't help sales. Mr Barton has heard from people who thought of the shop as a "well-loved friend", but the question he sometimes asks then is: "Well when was the last time you actually came in and bought something?"

    The list of musicians who have played Selectadisc might also indicate place that values "interesting" over "popular".

    "A shop like Selectadisc doesn't go out of its way to compete with supermarkets," Mr Barton said. "We don't stock pop music - things you'd find advertised on television, for example. Our customers know that."

    If anyone wants to keep the place alive, Mr Barton says he'd take their call. But he's not optimistic.

    "If there's anyone in Nottingham who wants to keep the name of Selectaadisc alive and has good ideas about how to ... I'd be happy to talk to them," he said. "It would take someone with a will of iron and a lot of money to attempt it. It won't be the same Selectadisc if it comes back."

    In the meantime, he wants to give the much-loved business the final weeks it deserves.

    "We're going to be running it until the end of March and hopefully giving it a dignified sendoff.

    "I want to close it with dignity, and I want people to remember Selectadisc as a fantastic place, not something that went out with a whimper."

    Some nice commemts http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews...il/article.html

  20. Market Square

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    You can see the tree on this Live webcam in Nottingham's Old Market Square from 8am until 6pm

    http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/www/marketsquare/webcam.asp

    Great link Nick .Weird to think I was standing there on Saturday

    (P.S. I just watched it for 2 mins updating it myself every few seconds and none of the workmen moved other people did so I could tell it was live!!!!!!!!!)

    Well done to CLINT on Nottingham's market squares live web cam .

    marketsquarewebcam.jpg

  25. Did You Live In Radford?

    in Old Radford

    Posted

    Just shown my dad your post

    re the exotic dancer with the bucket & bull whip her stage name was sony/sunny sabero it was a chamber pot she used in her act and yes she was very handy with a bull whip , he tells me she was quite well educated & the odd occasion her sister would accompany her to the variety , she too would get carried away with the variety experience & have a go @ exotic dancing ?