Is the Vinyl Revival Here to Stay? with Pip Piper and Graham Jones

In this episode we look at the disappearance of record shops in the UK in the late 2000s, followed by a sharp resurgence that continues into the 2020s. While it seemed record shops were going the way of the 8-track and the cassette, the industry did a complete 180 and did the unthinkable - and boutique record stores started popping up again all over the UK.

To take us through the downs and ups, Pip Piper and Graham Jones join us from Dawlish, England.  During his career as a sales-rep, Graham visited more record shops than any other human. His 2008 book ‘Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened to Record Shops' documents the decline of the record shop, while his 2018 book ‘The Vinyl Revival and the Shops that Made it Happen’ documents the subsequent rise. Both books were made into films of the same name by Pip Piper.

Outside of the UK you can download ebook versions of Last Shop Standing, Strange Requests and Comic Tales From Record Shops and The Vinyl Revival and The Shops That Made it Happen from Amazon Kindle. Graham’s blog has 100 plus features on vinyl and record shops: https://grahamjonesvinylrevival.blogspot.com/

Watch the films Last Shop Standing and the Vinyl Revival on Vimeo and learn more at: thevinylrevivalfilm.com

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