World's Oldest Record Shop Could Face Closure
Published Tuesday, 2nd January, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Spillers Records in Cardiff is the world's oldest record shop and it looks set for closure. The shop, which started in 1894 was the first to sell wax phonograph cylinders.
However, the current owner wants to sell the shop as rent increases are too much. Now, a number of names in the industry have come forward to help, including Manic Street Preachers and the world's oldest record label, Columbia.
A spokesperson for Columbia has said: "Obviously it's a campaign that's pretty close to home for Nick and James, but it's also something that's come to our attention here at Columbia, partly through the Manics but also from the coverage it's receiving elsewhere."
"It's a campaign that we'd like to get behind as a label. Columbia is the oldest record label in the world and it struck a chord that we should be doing something to help out the oldest record shop in the UK."
"Independent record shops have also played a huge part in supporting so many of our acts in their early days, in a world that's increasingly digital it's important not to forget that."
Columbia would start a petition to save Spillers from closure, which impressively already has more than 3,500 signatures.
