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Never mind IKEA, how about the record shops?

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  • #2
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Unfortunately everything has gone to hell as regards record shops. Hector's House used to be great - closed down now. Also I noticed Stovelid mentioned Backbeat. As far as I am aware it is closed down as well. I will be passing it after work today so I can post back later after my mid week pintage.

    All we have is bloody Zavvi and HMV. Cnuts.


  • #3
    casimir23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭casimir23


    Woah. Bad news, but thanks for the info. It'd be great if you could check out Backbeat.

    Lots of these shops have closed in Dublin in the last 5 years but there's a few still going.

    So what does a vinyl head do in Belfast (besides ebay)? Are there are record fairs, or is it just that one shop Zavvi?


  • #4
    Red Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭Red Soup


    It's weird for a city to have only 2 music shops. There must be some independent ones somewhere? I've had to shop online so often because what I'm looking for just isn't in Belfast.


  • #5
    casimir23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭casimir23


    There are two second hand shops carrying vinyl:

    Phoenix Records
    Backbeat

    Both located in The Haymarket, Royal Avenue

    I asked someone in the Street where the Haymarket was and he hadn't a clue, though he told me he'd lived in Belfast all his life. It turned out we were only 2 minutes from the place at the time, so I think this is a case of a place not being known by it's official 'phone book' address.

    It's a little arcade on Royal Avenue. On the same side as the Castle Court shopping centre. Zavvi is a large CD/DVD/game shop on the edge of the shopping centre. If you walk from the door of Zavvi, past the main doors to Castle Court, and then keep walking for 1 minute you'll be there. Both shops have billboards standing on the path outside so it's easy to find if you know what you're looking for.

    Even an idiot like me could understand those directions, so if you have any interest in secondhand vinyl, go in and check them out. And if you have any vinyl you don't want, bring it in and sell it. Otherwise these guys will have to close down and Belfast will be a poorer place for it.


    Notes:

    Backbeat is the sucessor to Terri Hooley's old shop Good Vibrations, which is a part of NI history. Ask to see the letter from Bill Clinton.

    Backbeat is listed on yell.com as being on Great Victoria Street, but I think that's a mistake.


  • #6
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    casimir23 wrote: »
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    Backbeat is listed on yell.com as being on Great Victoria Street, but I think that's a mistake.

    So Backbeat is open again. :)

    It was definitely on GVS previously so obviously they haven't updated the ads.


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