O/T:- - Selectadisc

[DaveSmithRules]

Yesterday, which was supposed to be Record Store Day, we at LeftLion had a good reminisce about Selectadisc. Unquestionably Nottingham's greatest ever record shop.



We also put this piece up by their long-term manager Jim Cooke.
https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2020...-the-nineties/

One thing I always like about Jim is how he mentions Notts in everything he writes. Be it an email or that article above about a record store in the 90s.

[BigFatPie]

I have to confess to spending more time reading the fanzines than looking at the records...

Great shop though.

[legs77]

Spent loads of time and money in the 90’s in that shop what was always good about it was the people who worked there all knew their stuff.

Over time I got to know a few of them so they would say if you like XYZ you might like this band etc.

A shop I do miss just like the clothing shop Hope & Glory.

[cocopops61]

Selectadisc was indeed a great independent record shop but my favourite was Arcade Records whos owners (brothers I think) knowledge of all music was second to none,I spent a fortune in there but don't regret a penny,if I remember correctly one of them supported Villa,they had to shut shop when the building they rented got pulled down,I saw one of the brothers serving in Flopp afterwards

[ncfcog]

I used Togo in Selectadisc religiously late 70s early 80s, as well as Arcade records and Way Ahead. Selectadisc always had the best section of records but Way Ahead used to have a good selection of t-shirts as well.

One day in about 1981 I was in way ahead when this couple walked in, wandered up to me and asked if I knew of any decent second hand clothes stores, I suggested the Oxfam shop down the road, it was no other than ‘Chrissy Boy’ Chris Foreman from Madness and his then girlfriend Jenny Bellestar, from the Bellestars!

[ncfcog]

I used Togo in Selectadisc religiously late 70s early 80s, as well as Arcade records and Way Ahead. Selectadisc always had the best section of records but Way Ahead used to have a good selection of t-shirts as well.

One day in about 1981 I was in way ahead when this couple walked in, wandered up to me and asked if I knew of any decent second hand clothes stores, I suggested the Oxfam shop down the road, it was no other than ‘Chrissy Boy’ Chris Foreman from Madness and his then girlfriend Jenny Bellestar, from the Bellestars!

I was wearing my baggy trousers … it was a sign of the times.

[cocopops61]

I used Togo in Selectadisc religiously late 70s early 80s, as well as Arcade records and Way Ahead. Selectadisc always had the best section of records but Way Ahead used to have a good selection of t-shirts as well.

One day in about 1981 I was in way ahead when this couple walked in, wandered up to me and asked if I knew of any decent second hand clothes stores, I suggested the Oxfam shop down the road, it was no other than ‘Chrissy Boy’ Chris Foreman from Madness and his then girlfriend Jenny Bellestar, from the Bellestars!

I recognize the name Way Ahead records but I can't place it,where was it situated?

[ncfcog]

I recognize the name Way Ahead records but I can't place it,where was it situated?

St James St

[cocopops61]

St James St

Ahhh yeah,half way up on the right hand side,cheers

[queenslandpie]

I probably spent more money in this shop than any in Nottingham when I lived there. Several hundred pieces of Selecta Disk bought vinyl are now gathering dust here in QLD.