Last Shop Standing at FACT

By Colin Serjent

The FACT Centre in Liverpool are screening Last Shop Standing on Saturday, 1 December, 2012, starting at 4pm.

It features cameos from Johnny Marr, Billy Bragg and Paul Weller but this isn't a film about them, it's a film about Diane Cain from Liverpool, owner of The Musical Box, octogenarian Laurie from Dales Records in Tenby, and owners of London's Sister Ray and Cardiff's Spillers.

There are featured other dedicated record shopkeepers fighting to keep alive that human connection to music.

Last Shop Standing, inspired by the book of the same name by Graham Jones, takes you behind the counter to discover why nearly 2000 record shops have already closed in the UK.

The film charts the rapid rise of record shops in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and the demise of vinyl and the rise of the CD and other technologies.

Immediately following the film there will be a Q&A session. Diane Cain and Tony Quinn from The Music Box will be part of the panel.

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