Mr. Fox

Name: Kevin from Addiscombe
Comment: These guys would be at The Greyhound opposite the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. In the bar area you could buy records at gigs. If you had a Fox membership card you got a discount. Happy days.
(15 February 2013)

Name: Richard Martin
Comment: I really felt I'd arrived when I first braved Mr Fox after school in 1973. My uniform was purple so it actually suited the shop, the façade of which - if memory serves - was painted purple. It was dark inside I remember. It felt very edgy by the side of Cloakes or even Bonaparte's. I remember the female proprietor. She looked a bit like Siouxsie Sioux. Very cool, I thought as a 14-year-old schoolboy. I remember buying Hawkwind's Warrior on the Edge of Time there and was first attracted to the shop because it sold German imports. I remember hearing Ash Ra Tempel's Seven Up with Timothy Leary and being hooked on that sound for life. Did it later become a punk outfitters called Paraphernalia? I don't remember it closing down but it was the coolest record shop I've ever frequented.
(2020)