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"Ram Jam’s Record Shack [in the arcade at the side of Peckam Rye Station] was a success and I opened another branch at Putney Saturday market in south-west London, near to my flat. Eventually I managed to scrape the money together to buy a Morris 1100 so I could put the records in the boot and drive up and down from London to Oxford – clap, bang, wallop until the wheels came off. I spent many months running those stalls until I landed a new acting job. Even then, Ram Jam’s didn’t shut down – I set up a mail-order business which I advertised in the back of the weekly Black Echoes music newspaper: ‘Get your records from Ram Jam’s Record Shop’.​"
- from ​Rodigan: My Life in Reggae


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Name: Mark Griffiths
Comment: Rodi definately sold records from a stall in Oxford market as I've seen 45s sleeves stamped with his name ('Ram Jam Rodigan') and address details.

Name: digitl killaz
Comment: Listening to various local sound tapes I have heard him reference selling records in Oxford (he grew up in Kidlington and spent his youth in Oxford before moving away). I think it might have been at Blackbird Leys Sunday market which, when I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s was held in the car park of the speedway stadium/dogtrack. But in a recent interview with Gilles Peterson he didn't mention selling records at all but did mention buying reggae from 'Russell Acotts' which was a musical instrument shop on Oxford High Street that had a corner dedicated to vinyl upstairs.
(16 January 2015)

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Sunday Market, Oxford Stadium, Sandy Lane, Cowley OX4 6LJ Oxford / Oxfordshire
The Arcade, Peckham Rye Station, Station Way SE15 4RX Peckham / London
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