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Ahead of his Pride set, Hacienda DJ Graeme Park talks Selectadisc, the evolution of clubbing culture and being a DJ in the 90s
Sat 20 Jul 2024From starting out as a teenager working in a Notts record shop to DJing around the world and playing to 8000 alongside a classical orchestra, Graeme Park is one of the original founders of the UK’s clubbing and rave scene. We caught up with him ahead of two new shows in the city at Nottingham Pride and Hacienda Live at Wollaton Hall…
LeftLion Interviews Podcast #1: DJ Graeme Park on Selectadisc, The Hacienda and the UK Club Scene Past and Present
Thu 11 Jul 2024Welcome to the first episode of the ‘LeftLion Interviews’ podcast. Our guest is the radio and nightclub DJ Graeme Park.
How local football team Fanzines United FC was created from a conversation in Selectadisc record shop
Fri 24 May 2024In 1990 a conversation in Selectadisc record shop led to a group of Notts County and Nottingham Forest fanzine creators putting their rivalries aside to form a football team together. Fanzines United FC was formed and is still going strong to this day. Andy Lowe, founder of the Tricky Tree fanzine explains how it happened…
We Speak to Jim Cooke, Co-founder of 1980s-2000s Notts County Football Fanzine The Pie
Tue 14 May 2024Merging football, music and real ale, Notts County fanzine The Pie took football back to the community when it ran over 87 issues from the late 80s to the late 00s. We speak to one of the original founders Jim Cooke about the history of the publication...
Selectors: Sue Starbuck
Sat 07 Jan 2023In the first of a new video interview series Nick Strang, Spore Print Productions and Plates speak to Nottingham-based DJ and former Selectadisc worker Sue Starbuck...
Selectadisc in the Nineties
Thu 16 Apr 2020In the days before iTunes and Spotify, Nottingham boomed with dozens of record shops. The biggest of these was Selectadisc, which opened in 1966 and finally closed its doors in 2009. Jim Cooke was the store manager and worked for them for over thirty years. Here he remembers the halcyon days of the nineties in that store...
Jim Cooke of Selectadisc on Record Store Day
Sun 10 Apr 2011"The last few years at Selectadisc were awful, staff morale was crap...it was clear we had had it."
May Contain Notts: Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Mon 01 Feb 2010Round up of the last two months in Notts featuring: The EDL, Su Pollard, Notts County, Brian Clough Labour MP, Peregrine Falcons on Mansfield Road and more
May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2009
Sun 01 Nov 2009Overview of the last two months with: Libertys, Sol Campbell, LeftLion Circus Extravaganza, Carl Froch's weigh-in, stero-nicking and bonfire night
Hockley Hustle 2009
Tue 27 Oct 2009Photos from the Nottingham music scene's annual fundraising shindig
Preview: Hockley Hustle 2009
Sun 18 Oct 2009For a mere ten of your English Pounds (or less in advance) you get a wristband that allows entry into twenty of Nottingham's finest venues
May Contain Notts: Aug-Sept 2009
Thu 01 Oct 2009The last two months news, including: the recession, Frances Finn, MCN's nephew, Forest vs Derby, the beach in the square and NHS texting
Leeds Festival 2009 gallery
Mon 31 Aug 2009Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Faith No More, Gossip,Gallows, Kings of Leon, Scorzayzee, Petebox, Lovvers and more...
May Contain Notts: June-July 2009
Sat 01 Aug 2009Round up of the last two months in Notts featuring: the BNP, Big Brother, Yates's re-opening, BBC Robin Hood, World-Cup hosting, Ragga Puffin, Notts County
Detonate 26th June 2009
Wed 08 Jul 2009Goldie, Calibre, Sigma and Plastician all played epic sets at Detonate in June. Plastician for around 3hrs! Check the pics...
Caribbean Carnival 2009
Mon 06 Jul 2009Leg of jerk chicken in one hand and a can of Red stripe in the other, we went along to the Nottingham Caribbean Carnival on the Forest
ICC World Twenty20 Cricket 2009 in Nottingham
Tue 09 Jun 2009The world comes to town as Trent Bridge hosts the 2009 ICC Twenty20 World Cup, bringing with it some of the world's best cricketers...
Interview: Graeme Park
Mon 01 Jun 2009"I soon realised that by being a DJ, three nights a week, I was getting 25 quid a night extra"
May Contain Notts: April-May 2009
Mon 01 Jun 2009Overview of the last two months with: Google Maps, FHP Magazine, Carl Froch, Jen Dodd, grandad breakdancer and Bulwell dad on sex offenders register
A Selectadisc Worker on the Closure
Sat 18 Apr 2009"With a reputation that spread across the Atlantic, the customers were far more colourful than the ones in your local branch of Gregg’s"
Selectadisc Closure Announced
Sat 28 Feb 2009It was announced yesterday that after over 40 years of trading in Nottingham, the legendary music shop Selectadisc is going to close at the end of March. There is only one word to describe this: Tragic.
May Contain Notts: Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Sun 01 Feb 2009Forest appoint a former Derby manager, Christmas school plays ge cancelled, Carl Froch wins the WBC belt and a guy from The Spectator gets the arse with Notts
The Ice Rink
Tue 09 Dec 2008"Skating round in a circle for three quarters of an hour is a lot more fun than it should be"
Interview: Jim Cooke, Manager of Selectadisc
Thu 01 Jun 2006We had a chat with the long serving manager of Nottingham's favourite independent record store...