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World’s oldest record shop relocates
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 July 2010
A Cardiff record store sometimes referred to as the “oldest record shop in the world” reopens in new premises today after leaving the property where it had been housed for six decades in June because of rising rents.
Spillers Records first opened in the Welsh capital’s Queen’s Arcade in 1894 selling music on wax cylinders and shellac discs. It relocated to a unit on The Hayes in the 1940s and stayed there until last month. Owner Nick Todd said the street where his shop was based had become “corporate alley” and rents were just too high to keep the operation going. He hopes the move to premises in the city’s Morgan Arcade will ensure the shop can stay in business, despite the huge pressures on all indie record stores these days.
Todd did consider selling the shop back in 2006 as the music retail market became ever more challenging, but decided to stay on after a campaign by artists like the Manic Street Preachers who feared new owners might radically alter the old school record shop feel of the business that has proven so popular with musicians and music fans alike for over a century.
