The black-and-white picture shows Buzz Music, which was opposite The Old Harp pub in Widemarsh Street until it was demolished to make way for Garrick House and the multi-storey car park in 1990.
In the mid to late 1970s it was a popular shop selling an array of vinyl records, and many spent hours listening to music that was played in there aloud and on headphones.
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Alison Contardi
10 Apr 2024 at 08:34
Re: Buzz music - yes I remember it well. The photo of the shopfront I believe to be of the shop when it was relocated further up Widemarsh Street. I was commissioned to do tiles featuring the cartoon Buzz cat for the space beneath the shop windows in about 1980/81.
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Name: Richard Eskins
Comment: A tribute to a long-gone music shop for records, guitars, drums, keyboards (my department), public address sales and hire, home and project studio recording gear. Members of Mott The Hoople, The Enid, The Pretenders, and Karakorum, shopped, worked or dossed there. P.I.L visited Buzz looking for a unique set of drums which were white with a funnel-like sound tube attached.
Comment: James Honeyman-Scott (guitarist in the Pretenders) worked for a time in legendary Hereford music shop Buzz Music (before he got famous, obviously). This shop was in Widemarsh Street, in a tumbledown old building, on the site of what is now the Garrick House council offices. It was a mecca for all us local young musicians - we used to buy our instruments and spares/accessories from there, listen to records, meet and sit and chat, sometimes hanging around the place for entire Saturdays.