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Sister Ray, the record shop that now occupies the store featured on the cover of Oasis' landmark 1995 album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?', is facing closure.

Located in London's Berwick Street, the shop were the first people to distribute Arctic Monkeys' records, selling the band's debut EP 'Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys' through its mail order system in 2005.

The store, which is featured on the left side of Oasis' album cover, has gone into administration, although owners are keen to find someone to continue the business.

Sister Ray, established nearly 20 years ago and named after a 1968 song by The Velvet Underground, was awarded Music Week's Independent Record Shop Of The Year award in 2007.

It is currently the only fully independent record shop in London's West End.

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Tomc2488

Jul 31, 2008

Thats a shame, Sister Ray is a great little shop. Have picked up some great records there over the past couple of years. I hope they find someone to carry things on.

ed2005

Jul 31, 2008

Gutted, gutted, gutted. Now live in Scotland but was a regular visitor to this Berwick Street legend when I lived south.Surely there can be some way of it being saved? Would rather buy records from the likes of places like Sister Ray, Rough Trade, (and here in Scotland) Avalanche than HMV or Zavvi.There are those who will claim that downloads are doing the damage. I beg to differ. The people who shop at places like Sister Ray are people who will go all over to find their music, and it's far more likely that some stuff is being undercut elsewhere (supermarket chains are not helping either). Wish I had the cash to help. Sigh...

cobbyshambles

Jul 31, 2008

Great records?Get over it son,they've invented cd's and mp3's now so move on like the rest of us and stop scrambling through bloody viny'ls. Im tired of retro's

rubbersoul7

Jul 31, 2008

Cobbyshambles, why is liking records considered 'retro'? They are probably tired of you too! Maybe people don't want to 'move on', vinyl sounds incredible. You clearly don't care about the quality of the music you listen to if you are happy with MP3. Vinyl will always be superior.

ed2005

Jul 31, 2008

Cobbyshambles - records for 'retros?' the dance scene always preferred vinyl to CD and mp3s are not collectable. In fact one of the reasons why vinyl has had a revival over the last five years is due to the fact that mp3s are impersonal. I realise that many people may prefer to do their shopping over the net, that's their choice; personally I like browsing, a chat with the informative people who work in specialist shops and not feeling like I'm being cattle herded. I don't think it's just us oldies of 31 who feel like that, or am I just being retro? ; )

Pedal Bin

Aug 4, 2008

Sister Ray was a great little shop. I'm assuming its moved into what was Selectadisc as that was the record shop on the front cover of 'What's The Story'. Actualy I think I bought more stuff from Selectadisc thatn I did Sister Ray.

lipgloss

Aug 5, 2008

cobbyshambles obviously cannot be a fan of music, what a ridiculous comment! a lot of the vinyl i have you can't even get on mp3 or cd. vinyl is beautiful, the sound is incredible! I download a hell of a lot of music, but as someone has said, nothing beats going into a record shop and chatting for half an hour about likes and dislikes, picking up a few bargains, sometimes the odd limited edition or autographed sleeve! you should try it, it's magical!