This month The Record Album is featured in a new weekend guide to Brighton published by the luxury hotel travel experts Mr & Mrs Smith and in two UK national newspapers, The Times and The Guardian, in their selections of the country’s best record shops.
The travel club for hotel lovers’ journal ’48 hours in Brighton’ is described as “a short and sweet-as-a-stick-of-rock curated coastal break” and references the vibrant record shop scene in the city as part of a must-do weekend.
The guide also gives ideas for food and drink, shopping, seafront activities, books browsing and cinema plus accommodation recommendations.
You can read the guide in full here: https://www.mrandmrssmith.com/editorial/travel-guides/48-hours-in-brighton
Similarly The Times rock critic Will Hodgkinson has reacted to the recent news that WH Smith is starting to sell vinyl again and picked his choices of the finest places to buy it in the country. He praises The Record Album for sticking steadfastly to film and theatre soundtracks in the past- “a noble if not exactly commercial choice” – and for now branching out into soul, folk, jazz and classic rock, with a huge selection of secondhand and new vinyl. “Just up from Brighton station, this is the kind of place worth missing your train for,” writes Will.
The Guardian’s travel section features an article by Graham Sharpe, a veteran vinyl collector, entitled ‘I’m travelling to every record shop in the UK – here are my 10 favourites’ and The Record Album is numbered among those. The full article can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/oct/03/im-travelling-to-every-record-shop-in-the-uk-here-are-my-10-favourites