Manics speak out about closing down of local record store

Welsh rockers The Manic Street Preachers have spoken up about the closure of a record shop that claims to be the oldest in the world. The band has said that the shop was a key part of their upbringing.

Spiller Records was opened by Henry Spiller in Cardiff in 1984 , specialising in the sale of phonographs. In 1920 Spiller’s son Edward took over and begun selling musical instruments alongside pre-recorded music. The shop moved in the late 1940’s to bigger premises but has kept going as an independent record store, as it still is today.

Unfortunately, due to a recent hike in rent prices Spiller Records’ future looks doubtful. The Manic’s are keen for the shop to be saved, saying “Spillers was a lifeline. It gave us our musical education - the only record shop in Wales where we could find the music that made us who we are.”.

Spiller Records is one of a number of small independent record shops whose future hangs in the balance. Should more be done to save independent record stores like Spiller Records? Why not discuss it in the eGigs forums?

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