“You are never going to discover Captain Beefheart, 13th Floor Elevators or the Velvet Underground in Tesco.” (Richard Hawley)
As well as the August prize draw for our Mag Survey Competition, we’re also giving away tickets to the premiere of Last Shop Standing – The Rise, Fall And Rebirth Of The Independent Record Shop , the forthcoming film based on the successful book of the same name written by Graham Jones and documenting his journey around UK record shops interviewing the characters who run them and their battle to survive. With lots of great anecdotes and comic moments, the film features contributions from Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Norman Cook, Richard Hawley, Nerima Pallot and Billy Bragg.
We’re giving away 3 pairs of tickets to the premiere to be held at the Ritzy in Brixton, London on 5th September 2012, PLUS winners and their guests will be invited to the aftershow party!!
To enter the competition, please email your answer to the question below, along with your name and postal address, to competition(at)propermusic(dot)com including ‘Last Shop Standing’ in the subject line. Deadline: Wednesday 22nd August 2012.
This competition is now closed. The correct answer was Sheffield.
Congratulations to our winners: David Williams, Edina Lengyel & James Kennedy!!
I have been a vinyl junkie since I was 6 years old. That’s 40 years. I don’t think anyone who considers themselves a musical anorak would purchase music from TESCO. Whether it be a record shop in the high street or a download store online, the importance to people like me is not to have musical partiality dictated by availability. Today I purchase music from shops in the high street, jumble sales, car boots, and places online. I rely heavily upon radio stations such as radio 6 to keep me in touch with what’s is current and not necessarily commercially viable. The high street record shop is still there….I recently walked into a few great shops whilst in Edinburgh. There’s none in my hometown now and haven’t been for a while but that is representative of people who want to be in them and purchase from them. People wanting a record shop is just more niche. That’s ok to me.