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Easy peeps.. Does any1 know what happened to beat street records after it moved from bolton to tibb st manchester??? Not seen Mike Stuart for ages or the guy who owned it, was it Mike.
I heard they where setting up on the net but i cant seem to find any links to a site???

nice 1 peeps
da fink :thumbsup:
 
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beat street shut a couple of years (maybe not even that) after they moved to manchester mike did set up an online shop not with pru but with another guy cant remember his name that didnt last very long.still see pru every now and again.
 
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bump!

Any updates on these two? Not seen or heard anything about them in years.........:ghost:
 
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no way!! Beat street moved to Tibb St???? That one completely passed me by:$ I remember Spin Inn opening up on Tibb Street:confused:

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i feel like ive just exposed myself to be a complete fraud. Some DJ I am eh, dont even know my local specialist vinyl shops:$
 
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It used to be one of my main record shops especially 91-92. I had no idea that it moved to Manchester :S

Was it because of the redevelopment nearby in it's old spot, or just lack of punters through the door? :think:

It was certainly a better place for finding stuff when they opened the basement towards the end of it's life and had all the decks set up for us to use, as I couldn't be arsed hanging around for hours waiting for them to drop something I liked after i'd bought the id'd tunes on my wantlist.
 
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Used to go there quite a bit between about 92-94. Always found Pru, Mike and the guy with a dark haired ponytail (whose names escapes me but I think he told me DJ'd at Sankeys in Manc?) the most friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff I've ever come across in a record store.

Used to love listening a big pile of new tunes downstairs. Pru even used to sell secondhand tunes on your behalf for a while (for a small share of the profits) if they could sell which I always thought was an excellent idea for both sides. Did well out of this as used to bring up secondhand tunes from London which I'd got for a quid and knew were popular up north. Even if it didn't sell you got your tunes back
 
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The black guy with the pony tail was Mike Stewart wasn't it? & Mark Curry I think with pony tail and glasses worked there too sometimes, he did Monroes for a bit if I remember right. Stopped going as much after 93 but always bobbed in while it was there . One of the last visits I recall when they were selling all the second hand stuff in the racks on the right as you went in I was buying some old tunes off a young whippersnapper who I found out years later went by the name if Cano :eyebrow:
 
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Blackburn Bod said:
The black guy with the pony tail was Mike Stewart wasn't it? & Mark Curry I think with pony tail and glasses worked there too sometimes, he did Monroes for a bit if I remember right. Stopped going as much after 93 but always bobbed in while it was there . One of the last visits I recall when they were selling all the second hand stuff in the racks on the right as you went in I was buying some old tunes off a young whippersnapper who I found out years later went by the name if Cano :eyebrow:
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Thanks Bod - It was Mark Curry I was thinking of.

The Mike I was thinking of was white and had a moustache - seemed to have good contacts in Italy and the US regarding imports. Always assumed he was the joint owner with Pru, but never asked......
 
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Art Awreet said:
Thanks Bod - It was Mark Curry I was thinking of.

The Mike I was thinking of was white and had a moustache - seemed to have good contacts in Italy and the US regarding imports. Always assumed he was the joint owner with Pru, but never asked......
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Actually I'm not 100% sure if he did have a moustache! Was an older guy anyhow (well older than me cos I was only 19-21 at the time!)
 


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