Tell us a little bit about your store? What's the vibe?

Our ‘vibe’ is 100% customer focused. We have done everything we can to create an environment where all are welcome and feel comfortable. We have lots and lots of regulars who we are on first-name basis with and on top of that Edinburgh is home to the world’s largest arts festival, so we get lots of tourists excited to be in a ‘proper’ record shop. We love helping folk spend their disposable income and aim for everyone who walks through our door to be happier on the way out than they were on the way in.

Can you remember the first record you sold in the shop? And the last?

First – Rolling Stones ‘Hot Rocks’
Last - Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust

Do you remember the first record shop you went to? And you do you remember the first record you bought?

John Menzies in The Thistle Centre, Stirling where I bought a reissue of Monty Python ‘Always look on the Brightside of Life’ on cassette single.

What is your favourite record shop (apart from your own!) and why?

Second hand – Grouchos in Dundee because I bought my first ever vinyl there and they have survived by always blazing their own path.
First hand – Concerto Records in Amsterdam. Incredible selection and a memory of a great weekend break when my wife told me she was pregnant.

What’s your most memorable record store experience?

I once asked a customer to finish up their purchases as we were closing and realised it was HRH Prince William but more memorably; last year a man came in with an extremely old and dirty flexidisc from WW2 and asked if we could play it so he could hear what was on it. We played it and a scratchy voice from the past whispered, ‘hello, I’ll be home soon…’ and the gentleman emotionally said ‘oh, that is my father’. He had not heard his Dad’s voice in 60 years so it was a pretty special moment. Only in a record shop!

What's the best gig you've ever been to?

David Bowie – SECC, Glasgow, 2003

What's your all-time favourite book?

Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums 19th Edition

What's your all-time favourite film?

Terminator 2 – Judgement Day

What would make up your desert island discs?

Funnily enough for my 40th birthday recently I recorded my Desert Island Discs in a studio as a present from my mate. He only let me have 6 picks (not the usual 8) and they were; The Ronettes – Be My Baby, Oasis – Live Forever, Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn Part 1, Midlake – Roscoe, The Beatles – A Day in the Life & Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)

Who would form your all-time Festival line-up? (past & present)

Robert Johnson, Otis Redding, Wings, Oasis, Nina Simone and Pulp because I never got to see them at the time.

What's your all-time favourite record?

The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)

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