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Selectors: Sue Starbuck
Sat 07 Jan 2023In the first of a new video interview series Nick Strang, Spore Print Productions and Plates speak to Nottingham-based DJ and former Selectadisc worker Sue Starbuck...
Selectadisc in the Nineties
Thu 16 Apr 2020In the days before iTunes and Spotify, Nottingham boomed with dozens of record shops. The biggest of these was Selectadisc, which opened in 1966 and finally closed its doors in 2009. Jim Cooke was the store manager and worked for them for over thirty years. Here he remembers the halcyon days of the nineties in that store...
Nottingham Adverts Ripped from the Pages of History
Mon 16 May 2016This month, our Wayne Burrows talks us through the advert for the old women's clothes shop Birdcage, which used to be located on Bridlesmith Gate
RIP Pete Davis (22 March 1950 - 4 August 2014)
Sun 17 Aug 2014Storyteller, fireman and author of Under Bestwood passes away
Jim Cooke of Selectadisc on Record Store Day
Sun 10 Apr 2011"The last few years at Selectadisc were awful, staff morale was crap...it was clear we had had it."
Interview: Graeme Park
Mon 01 Jun 2009"I soon realised that by being a DJ, three nights a week, I was getting 25 quid a night extra"
A Selectadisc Worker on the Closure
Sat 18 Apr 2009"With a reputation that spread across the Atlantic, the customers were far more colourful than the ones in your local branch of Gregg’s"
Selectadisc Closure Announced
Sat 28 Feb 2009It was announced yesterday that after over 40 years of trading in Nottingham, the legendary music shop Selectadisc is going to close at the end of March. There is only one word to describe this: Tragic.
Interview: Jim Cooke, Manager of Selectadisc
Thu 01 Jun 2006We had a chat with the long serving manager of Nottingham's favourite independent record store...