Anyone checked it out yet? Rough Trade is usually pricey, especially for imports, but it's still a good browse. They're usually pretty friendly too.
I'm just glad to see that at least *somebody* is doing well in the business. Or at least, I presume they are, and that this isn't some FOPP-style misguided expansion, but I don't think that's the case. The location seems perfect.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)
well they closed down their smaller shop so i wouldn't say they're doing that well. guardian article from few weeks back. but i might pop down there on thursday, maybe even BUY something...
― blueski, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)
Wait - Fopp is gone? I feel so out of touch =(
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
so the new shop is open? Rock.
I'm sorry about the Neal's Yard one closing. It's like Rough Trade are deserting central London.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)
wait - the Neal's Yard branch closed?
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)
where did I leave my glasses? who is that? come closer, out of the shadows, so that I can see your face. I don't recall your name...
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)
I was just in that Neils Yard one a few weeks ago! Dammit! I've got nowhere left to go now. I don't wanna have to go all the way to Brick Lane. :-(
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)
The location seems perfect.
yes. yes it really does.
fuck pricey rough trade. bring back cheapo fopp!
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)
RT's transish from 70s notting hill thru to 00s brick lane is a pretty concise history of monied british youth since the mid-70s tho.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)
follow the money!
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)
we have a new prime minister adam
― blueski, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)
I know, his question time is on our "c-span".
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)
his name is tony blair.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)
those years of tory domination are over!
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)
tory domination really gets me hot
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)
I strutted into that skateboard shop this weekend hoping to walk down the spiral stairs and blow some cash and was bummed to find the Neal's Yard one was no more. Brick Lane is far from my West London-ness! Is the Talbot Road one gone too? (Though that one always lacked for vinyl and imports, I thought).
― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)
LOLZ
Although they did not actually close down the Notting Hill shop, they just opened a second in Covent Garden.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)
Covent Garden RT and Fopp TCR were both doable from Holborn in a lunch-hour, whereas Berwick Street and this are a bit trickier. Could just about make it, I suppose. And then get a salt-beef bagel from up the road!
I'm sure there used to be a dance-music shop somewhere off New Oxford Street, but when I started working here I couldn't find it. That prob shut down too.
The CG one was good, but a bit pokey and hard to find stuff in, so hopefully there will be more space here.
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)
I know what you mean, but this is probably a result of not being able to afford Covent Garden rents, isn't it? And the kind of retro clothes shops and ukelele outlets that permeate Brick Lane these days are part of that "bohemian" "culture"/low-rent feedback loop that often happens in run-down post-industrial areas.
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)
Which you might find annoying, but isn't entirely bad.
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)
run-down needs the same scare-quotes you gave bohemian. granted it'll be cheaper than covent gdn though.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)
This thread really does make me feel sad.
― admrl, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)