The Jungle

Comments

Name: David Norman
Comment: I think I still have a bag left in the attic! Bought a lot of CDs there and some concert tickets including Rush, Eagles and Yes gig tickets!

Name: Dan Shepherd
Comment: Yep. They had a Costa-type loyalty card that you got stamped with each purchase. Always good for a mooch.

Name: Stephen Nanda
Comment: I designed their logo and that bag back in the day and sprayed his shop shutters with a jungle sunset, good times.

Name: Joanne Dunster
Comment: Got my Bryan Adams tickets for the Brewery Field from there x

Name: Michelle Howell
Comment: Oh my word! I practically lived in this shop as a teenager, right up until it closed due to online streaming - legal and illegal. Loved this shop, was really sad to see it go. I think I included it in a filmed, college documentary I made... when I was 19. Wish I knew where it was!

Name: Alyson Coaker
Comment: The pens with, 'This pen has been stolen from The Jungle' written on them.

Dave Harwood

17 Nov 2024 at 12:25

I found this piece on the Wales Online website dated 29 Mar. 2013: "THE last record shop in Bridgend has closed after more than a decade in business. Jungle Records, on Nolton Street, shut its doors last Saturday after 13 years. Owner Lee David said he has mixed feelings about the closure: “I can’t get wait to get out now, but I do feel sad,” said the 35-year-old. “I’m quite upset that I have to close the shop and I feel it’s not my fault. I’m just glad to get out of the industry before it slips any further into oblivion. There has always been a record shop in Bridgend and now there aren’t going to be any. I don’t think anyone else is going to open up.” Mr. David set up Jungle Records in 1995 after more than 20 years in the record industry."

Paul Roberts

17 Nov 2024 at 09:48

There is currently (2024) a record shop in The Rhiw shopping centre called Left of The Dial, mainly used records but a good stock and fairly priced.

P Skye

04 Jun 2025 at 10:07

The owner used to work at Bridgend NatWest bank before setting up this business.
It was a great, great store.
Like many retailers, it was difficult to compete with the rise in popularity of online retailers from the Channel Islands who delivered to your door, had the economy of scale, the logistics and paid zero tax, zero business rates etc.
Thanks play.com for fkucing up our beloved stores. Now you've gone too.