Lotus Records

Name: Jonathan Buckley
Comment: I loved working at MLM/Lotus. I remember unboxing the first Metallica EPs on vinyl... the first CD singles... Genesis and Dire Straits etc...

Name: Stig
Comment: I worked there for my brother Gez who was the manager. Loved the place and its wide variety of customers. Selling imports, new releases, classics, and my favourite, the second-hand section where I got most of my albums. I was there at the dawn of CDs and the transition from vinyl. Not sure who the guy was who didn't know that Hendrix had died, was perhaps a Saturday boy, or more likely someone being sarcastic, as we all prided ourselves on our knowledge.

Hawk, Gez, Jason, Damian, Mark were all people I can remember working with and it was a home for rockers on a Saturday, a social place. Sadly missed and I think those days are gone. A record shop has been opened recently by the once owner, I think, Mike Lloyd. Hope it stir memories for the next generation.
(25 September 2014)

Name: Phillip Smith.
Comment: Lotus in Hanley was the place to hang out in the late 1970s and early 1980s although you had to go to Mike Lloyd's to get your concert tickets for the Vicky Hall. Hard to believe that with Terry Blood's and Mike Stone's shop there were at least four record shops in Hanley in those days, plus Woolies, Smiths and Boots. An indication of just how many records were being sold in those days.
(29 June 2015)

Name: Julian Smith
Comment: The picture of the record bag brought back some great memories of the place in the late 1970s. I seem to recall that the shop moved within the arcade a couple of doors down in around 1979? Can anyone remember the name of the record shop that preceded Lotus in the arcade? It's been on the tip of my tongue for the past 30 years!
(17 October 2015)