A really sad day for Dublin’s independent music scene. Road Records is to close in the next couple of weeks. In an announcement on Thumped, Dave outlined numerous reasons for the shop’s closure including high rent, illegal downloading, online stores, recession and more. Read the full post.
What Dave and Julie have done in the last 11 years for independent Dublin bands cannot easily be replaced. It ws the place to go for Irish independent releases and sadly, that will no longer be the case. I can’t help but feel a slight bit annoyed with myself for not buying from them as much as I intended to in the past and I know others feel the same. I can’t claim to know Dave and Julie as much as others but in the last year, they have proved themselves as the nicest shopowners in the city centre. We really will not know what we had until it’s closed up shop forever. At the very least, I suggest we get in there and say thanks and buy some vinyl or CDs for the last time from them. Thanks and best of luck in the future to Dave and Julie.
Thoughts elsewhere: Thrill Pier
Here’s a bit of Spook of the Thirteenth Lock instore from eariler this year..
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Awh shoot, that’d explain why there was nothing available to buy on the website earlier today.
In fairness it was the first time in months I considered buying something off them.. always meant to go in more often but I’ve got so used to cheaper online shopping & just walking up to Liffey Valley nearby instead of town. Makes it worse to realise yer part of the problem when you read the post & realise how badly off it’s left them when they were doing it out of genuine dedication.
Terrible news!
It’s a sad day alright. I don’t think anyone saw this coming, maybe if we had things would be different.
Damn damn damn! Dave did hint about it in his Christmas mailing but damn I am going to miss Road. Ok I probably chatted with Dave and Julie more than I bought but I always tried to buy the Irish releases and gig tickets there.
Best of luck to them anyway and their new whipper-snapper!
Nice video! Their myspace had also hinted this. I think it’s time to buy all those random Irish releases I have been wanting. I have been buying from the shop but really not as much I should have.. I’ll go EP crazy!
Yeah, just heard about it myself there. When I was living in Cork it was the only way to get CDs from smaller Irish bands, as none of the shops in Cork bothered stocking them.
I just noticed Spook of the Thirteenth Lock are touring Japan in February. A little random but cool. I’ll be missing them by a whisker! gah.
Depressing recession.