Spent a night outside there once, queuing up for gig tickets. When I first started work in the city centre, the ticket shop was in the back upstairs, then relocated downstairs.
I recall Hime and Addison, very well, I bought John Coltrane, Giant Steps, album from this record shop. appx 1960. Sorry for being boringly nostalgic. Peace to all.
Hime & Addison sold instruments as well as records and concert tickets - piano's, organ's, guitars etc. Downstairs they sold records and rummaging around one day I picked up a number of back issues of Blues Unlimited, the pioneering UK blues magazine. Still got them and still use them today for research and good reading.!
Spent many nights camping outside in the 70s to make sure I got tickets in the morning. The nights spent there were sometimes more memorable than the concerts themselves
I walked past there a few months back, first time since the 70's and got an immediate deja vu feeling. Remember queuing all night in the passageway at the side for Led Zeppelin tickets. Well worth it we got front row. Think we paid like 90p or a £1. Sat about 10 feet from the stage while they did an acoustic set right in front of us. Those tickets today would be worth about £10K.
I THINK MY GRANDAD WAS THE ADDISON PARTNER ,HE LIVED IN KIRK ST GORTON ,AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR MANY MANY YEARS .
Remember skiving school a time or two to get tickets for Deep Purple in the early 70s. As I recall the phone number to ring to check when tickets were due on sale was 061 834 8019.
I remember the booths where you donned headphones, an unusual experience back then, and they would play a sample track from an album before you bought it. I worked in Albert Square and when I’d accrued enough money, would go in my lunchtime to get a favourite record. Once I sold my cigarette lighter to my workmate so I had enough to buy ‘The Duck’ by Jackie Lee.
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appx 1960.
Sorry for being boringly nostalgic.
Peace to all.
Sat about 10 feet from the stage while they did an acoustic set right in front of us. Those tickets today would be worth about £10K.
I believe Rare Records was also in John Dalton St, across the road.