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From tomorrow, I'm in Truro for a week. No ILX for me until 12th Aug. What I need to know is the obvious question for a man with my affliction. Are there any...

― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

..GOOD RECORD SHOPS around there?

― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tim Hokins to thread!!!!

erm, stay on the path, don't go out on a full moon and don't tell anyone that you're a virgin.

― chris, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did of course mean Tim Hopkins, although, Tim Hokins is more than welcome.

― chris, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I fear you will find that Mr Tim Hopkins will tell you that there is NOTHING GOOD IN TRURO AT ALL (due to its county). Trewartha might be a better bet.

― Pete, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

From Motion Record Shopfinder nothing in Truro but there is this:

RPM RECORDS Specialises in Rock and Dance

4 East HiLL PL25 4TW St.Austell United Kingdom phone: 01726 71722 fax: N/A email: info@rpm-records.co.uk web: http://www.rpm-records.co.uk

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

But dude surely a week without record shops won't hurt you? (so says the guy who goes on holiday and immediately looks for the phone book to find out where all the local record shops are).

― jel --, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

*dude*

jel just called me dude.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love Cornwall and the Cornish. I hope (and am sure) you'll have a great time Dr. C. There used to be a decent little second hand record shop in Plymouth called Lollipop records, but I don't know if it's there anymore. I was also taken to a really good little shop in Penzance but that's gone too I think. I've always had good record luck whenever I've visited Penzance (apart from the time when my friend beat me to the only copy I ever saw of "How Corrupt Is Rough Trade"... and it was in the bargain bin!) including copies of Bootsy LPs and "One Nation Under A Groove" with the free 7" for 39p.

Also in Plymouth and also closed down was one of the best record shops I ever went to: Meat Whiplash.

That's almost uniquely unhelpful, isn't it?

My recommendation: eat lots of fresh fish and saffron cake (not at the same time). On the way, or the way back, visit Exeter Cathedral and P!O!P! in to see some of the Sidmouth Folk Festival, which is where I wish I was this week.

― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's an imposter! Who are you & what have you done with the Tim who spent some hours on Sunday loudly proclaiming his hatred of Cornwall and all things Cornish!

― Emma, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who needs record shops anyway? Seaside towns = old folks aplenty and therefore = great charity shops with bumper boxes of bargain vinyl. If you can be bothered to sift through tons of James Gallway, Mrs Miller and Richard Clayderman, that is.

― Madchen, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(dr vick = dutch but grew up in plymouth = roXoR obv)

green is the colour of my baby's heart

ps dr vick = not "my baby", though haha i may one day try this mode of address out on her to see what happens -> she kickboxes obv

― mark s, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

mark s wins the even-less-helpful-than-hopkins prize for this thread: it's pressday and i am harried

― mark s, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just checked: Pinnacle Shops

SOLO MUSIC

21 PYDAR STREET • TRURO • CORNWALL • TR1 2AY

Full list of Pinnacle Shops in the South West

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah, Second URL should have been: Pinnacle Shops - South West

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also, Plymouth has the biggest university in Europe - right, Tim?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd be very surprised.

― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Solo's pretty good. But if you go down a small alley just opposite ottakars (if memory serves, I moved away from Cornwall a few years back) there's a tiny shop called Acorn records, which I vaguely recall as being pretty good.

― Matt, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also make sure you do the decent thing and have lunch at the Cathedral refectory. Largely because it's run by a spectacular collection of sweet little old ladies.

― Matt, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

in what sense "spectacular"? Could you let us, the uninitiated, know how to differentiate between a spectacular and a fairly mediocre collection of sweet little old ladies?

― MarkH, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark H was been particularly feisty recently. I think that 2 millionth post/Anthony crush thing has got to his head.

― Graham, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean that when they serve lunch they do it in the manner of a Busby berkely musical, obv.

― Matt, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just done a quick Google search for Acorn Records - secondhand CDs.

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reynard - you might be thinking of Portsmouth, which certainly has a massive university.

Dr C - if you see a man in his late twenties named Ian Beaumont, say hello from me. He'll know who I am!

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Plymouth University is very large - more students than Portsmouth, Robin - but it's not even the largest in England, let alone Europe. Unless there's some arcane counting method I don't know about.

― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks everybody. I have also to go to a wedding in Polperro. I am responsible for the music there, so plenty of Boney M (see Abba thread - actually don't) and The Stockholm Monsters (maybe not).

― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Polperro! Lucky sod. Oh god I'm starting to get homesick now....

― Matt, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is a bakery in Truro that makes the best jam doughnuts in the world ever

― Anna, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

>>> Plymouth University is very large - more students than Portsmouth, Robin - but it's not even the largest in England, let alone Europe. Unless there's some arcane counting method I don't know about.

There is. But you don't get to learn it until you have sat in the Vice-Chancellor's Cabinet of a major university in SW England.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gah! That'll T me for doing my R on the HESA site.

BTW, major = large?

― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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