sidewinder Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yes, there was coverage of Yeovil. I know personally that many of the stores mentioned had jazz sections, but the word "jazz" was uttered only once in the 50 minute film. As the last part was about how to keep the physical product alive, the evidence of this board alone suggests jazz should have been looked into. Great - I'll have to check the film out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 HMV is sold to Hilco in rescue deal Restructuring specialist Hilco has clinched a deal to rescue music and DVD retailer HMV. Hilco, which already owns HMV Canada, said it had acquired 132 HMV shops and all nine branches of the Fopp chain in a deal that could save 2,500 jobs. Another Hilco executive, Ian Topping, said HMV would be reversing its decision to sell tablets and other devices in its stores, making way for "an enhanced music and visual range". I suspect the horse has already bolted but there's a little hope for those who like to buy from shops here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted April 5, 2013 Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 I popped into the HMV in Bath a few weeks ago. A sorry experience so not expecting any miracles there. You would be hard pushed to find anything beyond Miles Davis KOB and Kenny G in there these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzkina Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Можно ли у вас на форуме разместить банер нашего интернет магазина сток-24.рф Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Must be spam MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I think it means the HMV branch in Vladivostok has been saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I think it's HMV Moscow - I'd guess that Moscow is the first word. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 The bit at the end looks like a price. How long before someone starting asking about shipping rates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Можно ли у вас на форуме разместить банер нашего интернет магазина сток-24.рф "You can if you have the forum to place our banner internet store runoff-24." That's a pretty lazy spammer. No links, no nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Можно ли у вас на форуме разместить банер нашего интернет магазина сток-24.рф "You can if you have the forum to place our banner internet store runoff-24." That's a pretty lazy spammer. No links, no nothing. That's a slick bit of translating, Scott. Gooogle no doubt. Thanks. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Looks like a Russian sleeper cell has been activated this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 "Perhaps you would like to reconsider what you have asserted about Eric Clapton..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Vee haft vays to make you talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Oh, sock off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Spent a couple of days in London last weekend. Popped into two of the last remaining record shops from my traditional path a decade or more back. Rays at Foyles seemed to be holding its own though without the depth it once had. But HMV...oh dear! The big classical room had been cleared out and moved into the jazz room. The jazz was back in the main body of the shop. Could have been HMV Leicester from about 2006. Bought one CD from Foyles (Trio 3 + Jason Moran) where ten years ago I would have gone away on my annual trip with 20! Even then I got home to find it was available on Amazon as a download for less than £6 where I paid £13. Oh how the world has changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Last time I was in HMV Oxford St it was still a main room for jazz and with OK selection. It was only a few years ago that they had some Mosaic Selects for sale there. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 (edited) It looks like it's just happened over the last week or so - the classical room was empty apart from step ladders and things. A few months back when HMV got 'saved' there was talk of it reorienting itself towards more specialised music. Haven't seen much evidence of that in the couple of provincial shops I've stepped into. Slim pickings in the jazz, classical etc area - still lots of space for T-shirts, mugs with your favourite album on etc! I suppose it takes time to turn an oil tanker round! Edited August 20, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) Had a couple of hours to kill early on Saturday morning in London so I wandered up Oxford Street to find HMV gone. Recalled some talk of it moving back to the site I remember it in on the south side of Oxford Street by Bond Street station. So I wandered up that way and there it was. After an initial 'Ooh, its 40 years ago!' feeling interest rapidly dropped. Not much different to the provincial shops. Had a brief root around in the opera Blu-rays. When you are charging double what you can get them for on Amazon your long term survival must be in doubt. Another sign of the times was the shop in the Barbican. I'm sure I remember a book shop there. Now it sells 'gifts' - mugs, paper products etc with just a few CDs from the LSO's own label and a handful of books. Market forces. Edited February 19, 2014 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Was that the music shop just before you get to the Barbican main entrance? Always looked well stocked but have never been in. HMV is starting to be a joke - unless you want to buy their DVD movies I guess. Forget anything to do with jazz. I popped into the Bath branch some time back and didn't linger for long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) Was that the music shop just before you get to the Barbican main entrance? Always looked well stocked but have never been in. This one was in the main building on the ground level with the fountains outside. Maybe there's another shop. I find the geography of the Barbican utterly confusing. Never know which way to go back to the tube station. The music library looked well stocked, though the entrance to the library looked well hidden. I was trying to work out if it was a shop or a library - turned out to be the latter. You can see the delights on offer here: http://www.barbican.org.uk/visitor-information/shops Designer pencil case? iPhone cover? Edited February 19, 2014 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Had a couple of hours to kill early on Saturday morning in London so I wandered up Oxford Street to find HMV gone. Recalled some talk of it moving back to the site I remember it in on the south side of Oxford Street by Bond Street station. So I wandered up that way and there it was. After an initial 'Ooh, its 40 years ago!' feeling interest rapidly dropped. Not much different to the provincial shops. Had a brief root around in the opera Blu-rays. When you are charging double what you can get them for on Amazon your long term survival must be in doubt. Another sign of the times was the shop in the Barbican. I'm sure I remember a book shop there. Now it sells 'gifts' - mugs, paper products etc with just a few CDs from the LSO's own label and a handful of books. Market forces. Yes, i was surprised the other week to see the shuttered HMV on Oxford Street but then remembered the relocation. I didn't bother to look for the other site. Did you visit Harold Moores in your time killing Bev? The gift shop's been a feature at the Barbican for at least a couple of years. There is a music shop, selling scores, instruments and Cds by the Silk Street entrance which is the one I think Sidewinder's referring to - I've never been in it though. The labyrinth that is the Barbican Centre defies any logical navigation suffice to say what is Sidewinder's 'main entrance' is on the other side of the building to the pedestrian 'fountain entrance'. Tthere are still people who attended the opening of the complex in 1982 trying to find an exit, they are heard weeping and wailing through the night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) Yes, i was surprised the other week to see the shuttered HMV on Oxford Street but then remembered the relocation. I didn't bother to look for the other site. Did you visit Harold Moores in your time killing Bev? The gift shop's been a feature at the Barbican for at least a couple of years. There is a music shop, selling scores, instruments and Cds by the Silk Street entrance which is the one I think Sidewinder's referring to - I've never been in it though. The labyrinth that is the Barbican Centre defies any logical navigation suffice to say what is Sidewinder's 'main entrance' is on the other side of the building to the pedestrian 'fountain entrance'. Tthere are still people who attended the opening of the complex in 1982 trying to find an exit, they are heard weeping and wailing through the night I walked past Moores but it was early and not open. Have been there before. Like that bit about the lost souls of the Barbican. Maybe someone could commission Birtwistle to write an opera about them? I had a friend who stayed in the YMCA in one of those towers for a few months. Recall kipping on his floor (against regulations) at one point. Edited February 19, 2014 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Yes, it's the Silk Street music store that I was thinking of. Always pass it on the way in - and invariably get disoriented every time I visit the place. Maybe it is all that Brutalism gone mad ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 A sign of the times! http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/hmv-market-street-pound-shop-6915776 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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