|
Post by Planet Mondo on Apr 11, 2006 13:59:41 GMT
I recognise the name Guy Norris, but can't think where it was. Any info anyone?
My personal Faves were Kellys records. The one in Vic Circus, near the Cork and Cheese was best for Crass stuff and Pistols import.
The other Kellys in the basement near the railway bridge was good for badges ( if you couldnt get it at Nasty )
Golden Disc for New Releases
Downtown Discount Valkyrie Rd or Southchurch was worth a visit for all the punk sleeves on the walls.
Parrot was OK(bloke was a bit grumpy and they had weird imports), but Projection was a bit too Fleetwood Mac crowd for me
|
|
peter
New Member
Posts: 6
|
Post by peter on Apr 11, 2006 16:57:57 GMT
Guy Norris was in the precinct near the Wimpy bar - it's now Gades wool shop. Paul (nowof Carmel Records) used to run the Downtown in London Road,Westcliff I remember
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 12, 2006 17:10:00 GMT
The bloke in Parrots was a miserable sarcastic git who looked like Beethoven and smelled like a goat. He was always incredibly rude to the people that actually provided his living. Once he was so rude to me that I told him he could stick his record shop and never went back there. A week or so later he was at the bus stop on the corner of Hamlet Court Road, he saw me coming in his direction and went and hid in the doorway of the fishmongers, which amused me no end....
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 12, 2006 17:21:29 GMT
Projection was the best 'independent' record shop IMHO, you could always get really obscure stuff, and he always had Crass records in first. In fact I first heard Feeding of the 5000 in there back in 1978, and it knocked me sideways! As I was also a jazz fan I always used to get my jazz albums in there as well, and Barry martin was always more than pleased to play stuff that was requested, no matter how noisy or obscure...
Guy Norris was good back in the really early days of punk, I remember hanging about in there with Mark and Shane Conway round about the time I left school in 1977. I never had any money, but used to love looking at all the punk singles that they used to have on one of those revolving rack things. And what money I did get from my paper round I used to spend in Dayvilles Ice Cream parlour down by the Odean. Steven Gee had a bit more money than me and used to buy the singles fairly indiscriminately, so I just taped them off him.
The best thing about Golden Disk in the late 70s/early 80s was the tasy girls behind the counter, although they were well out of my class or so I thought (as I put it in my fanzine New Crimes, "I expect they've all got boyfriends")
There was also that record shop in Southchurch Road, which later became Spud U Like I think, caled Record World or something equally imaginative, where they had loads of punk singles, and you could also get fanzines like Sniffing Glue, etc there. Ithink they also had a hand in the making of the Machines EP???
|
|
|
Post by Planet Mondo on Apr 12, 2006 18:45:22 GMT
Yeah I'd forgotten about the Golden disc girls.
The branch near the old post office used to have a fantastic selection of punk stuff. I got dead kennedys, damned and UK Subs from there.
Parrot had a few winners. I got a miss pressed Adam and the Ants Xerox from there (had Physical, not whip in my valis e on the Bside)
I think the Southchurch one was Downtown Discount. Weirdly enough it used to always smell of mash - then it became a Spud U Like
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 14, 2006 0:05:07 GMT
Just remembered, the shop in Southchurch road ran a record label called 'Dirty Dicks'...
|
|
|
Post by andiprey on Apr 15, 2006 8:48:42 GMT
Record world was run by Trevor Stoneman who also worked in Guy and Norris, The Dirty Dicks/ no pap lable put out the great Speedball 45 no survivors and Trevor also brought Stiff little fingers to Southend tec.
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 15, 2006 9:43:53 GMT
Thats it, great, thanks for correcting/reminding my befuddled old brain....
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 15, 2006 13:55:31 GMT
Guy Norris had a video player in the shop back in 1977, which tended to repeat the same old tracks over and over again in a loop, however this was quite a radical new thing in those days long before MTV or promo videos became commonplace, and I remember being quite mesmerised by it, and gawking at the moving pictures, even if it was just "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by the Carpenters or "Oh Laurie" by the Allessi Brothers over and over again...
Sad but true...
|
|
|
Post by andiprey on Apr 15, 2006 13:57:22 GMT
Thats right, but it had Anarchy on it as well.
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 15, 2006 14:12:58 GMT
Actually i think thats why we used to gawk at the thing, putting up with all the rubbish until Anarchy came round again...
|
|
|
Post by andiprey on Apr 15, 2006 14:16:21 GMT
Ive just remembed a record shop that was opposite the blue boar in west street from75 to 77 and was run by two women who at the time seemed middle aged but were prob about late 20s,. I used to go there pre punk days in my school lunch hour and just gab on about bands. I brought the Small Faces itchycoo park.Does anyone else remember this shop? It must have been there as ive still got the singles.
|
|
graham
Full Member
There is no authority but yourself
Posts: 208
|
Post by graham on Apr 15, 2006 14:20:12 GMT
Yes, can't remember the name but I definately remember the shop. I bought my first album in there with my paper round money in 1976. I'm afraid to confess it was 'Relayer' by Yes...
There was also 'JR Tapes' in Sutton Road, where you could get the cheapest Agfa cassette tapes around... Good for taping your mates bigger brother's Genesis albums on...
|
|
|
Post by andiprey on Apr 15, 2006 14:27:06 GMT
Oh yeah! I remember J R tapes. There should be a special mention for Dell at the Record museum as he will out live us all. I got Anarchy from him on E.M.I.( every mistake imaginable)
|
|
steve
New Member
Glitter, stardust in dull, camp form. Hero are you out there, or are you just a shadow?
Posts: 42
|
Post by steve on Apr 15, 2006 17:10:59 GMT
I remember the video in Guy Norris, but I beg to differ in that there were some pretty amazing videos on there from time to time! I remember seeing my very first Residents video there, 'moisture' (aka 'snail in purse'). I remember that frightful man from Parrots too!
|
|