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Coda Music is no more :(

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  1. ejstubbs
    Member

    Heading down The Mound yesterday I noticed that Coda Music has closed its doors. Apparently the owners have chosen to retire and follow individual pursuits: https://twitter.com/CodaMusic/status/1081611819997900802
    which of course they are absolutely at liberty to do, and I wish them well for the future.

    It does seem a bit sudden, though. And a shame that it appears not to have been possible to sell the business as a going concern.

    Where can I go now to while away a spare half hour browsing through physical copies of the kind of music that I enjoy and chatting to the staff, often walking out with something I wouldn't even have known that I would like before I went in? (Note: Fopp is not the answer to that question.)

    Posted 6 years ago #

  2. paulmilne
    Member

    Oh dear, this is sad news. I suppose there are plenty of second hand vinyl shops around, but little in the way of new music and new vinyl.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  3. gkgk
    Member

    EJ, have you tried Assai in Grindlay Street? Not the same focus as Coda but worth a look.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  4. mgj
    Member

    The impending retirement hasnt exactly been a secret; was discussed on stage in front of an Edinburgh audience at Wide Days nearly three years ago. Certainly some people knew about it enough to put an application in to convert it to a cafe.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  5. PS
    Member

    Assai in Grindlay Street

    Seconded. Very helpful staff, decent selection (to my taste), occasional in-stores, etc. Pretty much all I look for in a record shop.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  6. jdanielp
    Member

    Oh dear. I'm not sure how to break this to my dad but I had better try to do so before my parents visit next...

    Posted 6 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    FOPP staff chat to me.

    How will FOPP fare with HMV going down tubes?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  8. wee folding bike
    Member

    gembo had you heard the Hourstons in Ayr is closing?

    I probably haven’t got any items there since the ‘70s. I did go for a coffee a couple of years ago. I still liked knowing it existed.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    Yes @weefolding bikes. 81 staff losing their jobs.

    My mum bought a big soup pot from their a couple of years back

    Was called Arnott's in my day but after I left Ayr they reverts to Hourston's as a name. I prefer Hourston's. As you could say the name in Ayr and get away with it. Given that the first syllable is quite edgy.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    Don't think I've bought anything in Hourston's since we went to exchange a wedding present in 2008.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  11. ejstubbs
    Member

    @gembo: I wasn't trying to suggest that Fopp staff are unfriendly, it's just the whole ambience of the shop that is utterly different.

    And I too have been wondering what the impact would be on Fopp of HMV going in to administration. The one on Rose Street seemed to be going full steam ahead when I popped in just the other day. There were big sale signs over the main windows but they didn't say "liquidation" or "closing down".

    I also noticed that the ex-BHS store is getting a very thorough seeing-to. Couldn't see much through the fabric hoarding covering the scaffolding at the front, but the whole of the back part on Rose Street seems to have been reduced to rubble. The rear elevation of the Princes Street part did look more or less intact. I wonder if it's going to end up as two separate premises?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  12. LaidBack
    Member

    Looks like I may have bought my last albums* at Coda before Christmas. Very sad as a real focal point for musicians and had been voted best shop many years.
    *Duncan Chisholm /Sandwood and Hommage à Eberhard Weber.
    (They had expanded range to include excellent ECM label with European jazz names.)

    Posted 6 years ago #

  13. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I haven't bought much new music for a long time. But for second-hand stuff (1970s, mostly) I head for Record Shak. I live in fear that the owner might retire one day. And note that that bastion of headbangery, Hoggs Head music, just along the road, closed up shop a year or so ago.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  14. Frenchy
    Member

    I went into the Record Shak once, but was too terrified to move enough to actually browse. Owner seemed to have a perfect recollection of what was in every box though, so was quickly able to tell me he didn't have whatever I happened to be looking for.

    Hog's Head was fantastic.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    “

    If you thought the vinyl revival was just another nostalgic fad, then look away now. HMV is set for a historic return to Edinburgh’s Princes Street nearly six years after the flagship store’s closure – and the new focus will be on vinyl.

    “

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/hmv-set-to-return-to-edinburghs-princes-street-3569850

    Posted 3 years ago #

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