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Added 6th May 2019 by Mystical Kenny

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Spin Inn
1990

I worked in city centre Manchester from '85 to '95 and was a regular record buyer and shopper and visited Virgin, HMV, Spin Inn, Eastern Bloc, Expansion Records and The Vinyl Exchange over that time.

I bought my first house record from Spin Inn in 1986, when it was on Cross Street. It was House Beat Box, by Sampson 'Butch' Moore. The second house record I bought was Work The Box, by Santos. I've still got them. I was also an early adopter of CD's. I amassed a pile of CD singles [which were limited in '87/'88] before I actually bought a Technics CD player.

Lunch times at the Spin Inn, when it moved to the entrance of the Underground Market, facing the side of Boot's, were usually attended by Russ, Mike and Kenny, with Stu Allan usually stood to the right of the counter wearing a black nylon MA1 flying jacket, well after they weren't fashionable :)
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“Lovely!”
Written by Abigail
16 May 2019
“I worked here shortly in 84 to 86 ish russ joined when I left great bunch of guys I nagged Kenny constantly for hip hop 12"s great memories of Saturdays all day hanging around in the small ass shop air filled with cig smoke or reefas lol followed the shop too to the underground market when it became manchester underground records when it had then moved to the corn exchange I'd quit there and was shopping at vinyl exchange cos they had cheaper stuff by 94 I'd quit buying vinyl cos kids came along ended up selling everything broke my heart tbh i held back on 2 crates of stuff I couldn't part with which iv still got now upstairs away from heat got no turntables now so been grabbing digital format flac on what iv managed to find of my old school vinyl now I play tunes from phone to Bluetooth speaker how things have changed lmao”
Written by Dave t
11 Feb 2022
“Russ lad hope you and Kenny both doing well guts last saw you at legends Warrington in 93 ish I think club was on the verge of shutting I know I rabbited on at you all night but alas the speed took over lmao ????”
Written by Dave t
11 Feb 2022
“The last time I saw Russ, he was working at The Vinyl Exchange and, as far as I know, still does.”
Written by Mystical Kenny
11 Feb 2022
“Yep confirmed I popped in vinyl exchange earlier today (11th feb) yep he was downstairs so had a catch up think he was surprised to see me lol had a quick chat bout vinyl and how stuffs changed had a good root through the classic house section but started to feel the chills cos half there stock some of mine were in there so made a hasty exit but nice to catch up also took a walk to cross street to see the old spinn Inn building Ladbrokes lmao”
Written by Dave t
11 Feb 2022
“Looked on Google can only find a few pics of the shop front my pal neal Rushmere from lymm did a graffiti piece in the wall going down the stairs at spinn Inn we spent all day Sunday there doing it in 1986 or 87 can't remember but the graffiti piece looked so cool spinn inn logo he took pics I remember but iv lost touch with him and there no pics online hoping to find one at some point Kenny grogan paid my pal 30 quid I think to do the piece looked mint does anybody remember the graffiti piece ?”
Written by Dave t
11 Feb 2022
“youtu.be/r3qdX0tiPV8 gave me chills watching not much to look at it seems most of it is blocked off now I remember it was big market must of been 2 levels you could get in at street level but enter viar escalators on market Street.”
Written by Dave t
11 Feb 2022
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