In the lead up to Record Store Day the Ventnor Exchange is delighted to welcome Graham Jones who will be giving a talk on his career in the music industry as well as the fascinating history (and recent re-birth) of record stores. There will also be a quiz with some great prizes up for grabs!

Born in Anfield, Liverpool - Graham Jones is one of the founders of Proper Music Distribution he should be in the Guinness book of records for visiting more record shops than any other person. Following hundreds of record shop closures and worried that record shops would go the way of stamp shops, coin shops and candlestickmakers he toured the UK to interview 50 record shops and document their tales for a book ‘Last Shop Standing (Whatever Happened to Record Shops?)

The true story of his time spent working in and around the world of independent record retailing is every bit as colourful, funny, strange, and occasionally sad as any fictional yarn. In Last Shop Standing he amassed many extraordinary tales of the best shops he has done business with over the years and hilarious accounts of the worst. In 2012 Blue Hippo made a documentary film based on his book.

In the lead up to Record Store Day the Ventnor Exchange is delighted to welcome Graham Jones to the store to give a talk on his career in the music industry as well as this fascinating history (and recent re-birth) of record stores. There will also be a quiz with some great prizes up for grabs!

lastshopstanding.com @Graham1471