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SHOP 'n' ROLL - Your guide to the best rock n’roll stores in Yorkshire
About third to last on your right as you head up the street towards Devonshire Green GREAT FOR clothing with
a HUGE range of band names - you can even pick up a Ratt T-shirt there
- and at prices much lower than you find them at gigs or high street
music stores, plus sew-on patches and rock jewellery as well as a selection
of rare live CDs.
Can be found straight across from the train station, just of view to the right across the square. GREAT FOR - Huge selection of CDs, plus second hand vinyl and tapes plus rock DVDs and videos from all ages. For 80’s rock fans, this shop is absolute heaven and then some with many now sadly obscure releases on these racks as well as a good stack of tour programs dating back as far as three decades. Put it this way, you might need to allow a full afternoon to peruse their stock, they have over 40, 000 different items on the premises.
DISCOVERY
RECORDS
- 73, Westgate, Bradford Head up street away from town centre, with Morrisons store back on your right. Shop is close to Northern Drum Store. GREAT FOR The equivalent
of Wall of Sound and Rocky Horror put together, this establishment is
spread over three floors and about five different departments and again,
offers wide range of artists, old and new and a lovely metal/hard rock
CD section containing rare singles as well as big-selling albums. On small pedestrianised street with glass canopy. Second on left going up. GREAT FOR Surprisingly good variety of rock/metal Cds of bands known and unknown from all ages, plus loads of obscure DVD releases in this small store.
RADAR RECORDS
- 20 Byram Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield Byram Arcade is an old 18th century built sopping precinct. Its entrance can be found quite easily, about 50 yards up on the right on Westgate. The shop is on the first floor mezzanine inside. GREAT FOR Sizeable variety of CDS with plenty to go at in the rock metal section and top underground hard rock labels like Frontiers and Escape account for a fair few discs on their these shelves. You’ll be in there for quite bit, trust me.
HELLRAISER - 97 Kirkgate, Leeds (City Centre) Tel. 0113 2470800 Walk on past the Corn Exchange shopping mall and bear right after Relics Records - Hellraiser is a few down on the right - recognisable by a red/yellow frontage- and the odd goth or two coming in or out the door. GREAT FOR: Huge variety of metal/rock clothing and other goodies - this is basically Leeds’ answer to Sheffield’s Rocky Horrors store but with a wider and better range of metal CDs ands DVDS - plenty of titles you won’t pick up too often in HMV or Virgin/Zavvi here guys. Their premises are also shared by Kyro, who operate the area to the left, inside the door, dealing in plenty of interesting varieties of Goth gear and a healthily loaded wallet may be required for your visit here. KYRO - 0113 2423236 HELLRAISER also have a store
in York. Info on this coming shortly - it has been refurbed recently
and we’re not sure if there are any major alterations to their
stock that we need to note.
Quite a recently opened independent store, shortly after the Corn Exchange, on the right, easy to pass, en route to Hellraiser. GREAT FOR: Old and rare
vinyl, classic rock 60’s/70’s/80’s and you can also
get quite a few second hand surprises in the small but interesting metal
section, just inside the door. A good range of hard-to-find rock DVDs
also awaits. MORGANA
- 16, The Springs, Wakefield (City Centre) WF1 1QE. Carrying on walking downhill past the cathedral, the shop is on your left roughly halfway down the slope. Alternatively, it can be just about seen across to the right from the McDonalds on Kirkgate. GREAT FOR: Its variety of goth and rock/metal clothing with some fabulous artwork designs. Mainly women’s togs* apparently but blokes are catered for as well - so lads do follow your missis inside, you may very well be tempted. *this little snip of info
was partly picked up off Yell.com. If we’ve got this wrong, Morgana
people, let us (and them) know and we shall amend this info. |
