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Maff Dyke
06 Jun 2023 at 10:08
Dave and Sian always had albums that you wouldn’t find anywhere else in Brighton at rock bottom prices! Three examples are finding Nitro’s 'OFR' album after seeing their track 'Freight Train' on MTV and Beau Nasty's 'Dirty But Well Dressed' album, again after seeing the track 'Shake It' on MTV. Dirty Blonde’s LP 'Passion' I picked up purely for the four dudes on the front cover and obscure record label Outpost Entertainment Company.
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Comment: Originally the Jubilee building was a Tesco supermarket. In the early/mid-1980s it turned into a sort of open market-type place with a ton of stalls selling different merchandise... computer games, books, knickknacks.
Upstairs was a huge area and was run as a record shop for some years. At first I think it was the guy from Brighton Book & Record World (also Gardner Street)... he wasn't there for very long when Dave & Sian Minns moved in. Originally Dave worked at HMV in Churchill Square, Brighton, this is in the late 1970s and very early 1980s. Then for a short while he had a very small shop in Tidy Street, just by Wax Factor. When he moved into Jubilee it changed the town for the better by about 1,000%. You could always find good stuff both new and second-hand and the prices were great. I took a ton of records in to trade and always came away with top stuff. Dave had great connections in the wholesale business and a practised eye at buying second-hand. It was worth going in every day to look through the new stuff. After a few years Dave and Sian moved a couple of doors down the road and opened Borderline (another story). I remember taking in the first CD Dave had ever seen. He looked at it in horror, realising the future had arrived and from now on he would be dealing in fragile little plastic boxes.
(29 February 2016)