Oh, Monseur le Fopp, you are really spoiling us...

It'll be rubbish when Foppwatch becomes "HMV still fucking sucks!"

So, basically, Fopp will become HMV's "can't sell these old cakes" clearing house?

That's fine, I've bought more good old cakes in HMV sales than in any other shop

"Let Them Sell Cakes!"

I wonder now that Fopp have been refused a lease by the landlords of the Cambridge Circus location [Covent Garden], will they try to buy another ex Fopp shop from the administrators such as the Camden store?

HMV Forced To Abandon Plans To Reopen Fopp London Store
http://www.gigwise.com/news/36378/hmv-forced-to-abandon-plans-to-reopen-fopp-london-store

However, representatives for HMV have now revealed that the London store will not now reopen due to the fact that the landlord of the building will not let them take on the lease.

that should be.. I wonder now that HMV...

I would be very surprised if HMV don't open a Fopp in London, as they would need a presence of the brand in the capital.

meanwhile somerfield have purchases 5 ex Fopp stores to be coverted into Somerfield stores presumably to compete against Tesco Express and Sainsbury's local

Somerfield buys five Fopp stores
http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=5907

So, basically, Fopp will become somerfield's "can't sell these old cakes" clearing house?

mmm, stale cakes.

the man who sells flowers outside the byres road fopp says its opening in two weeks time

I am excited about Somerfields. I shall go straight to the butcher's counter and demand 24 Hours of Throbbing Gristle.

the central glasgow fopp re-opened today - pretty much the same stock/prices as before, ho-hum

anyone know what will have happened to Edinburgh Cockburn Street's vinyl? sold off in lots at auction? pity. was always thinking that would be phased out with a big sale rather than the whole chain going under... optimistically looked in Rose Street just in case but of course, no dice.

It might still be there. You could tunnel in from the dungeon next door.

nah it's turned into (just this week) a 'fire sale' store for some horrific scottish clothing line.

the central glasgow fopp re-opened today - pretty much the same stock/prices as before, ho-hum

I thought they seemed to have more stuff in the back catalogue £5 or less sections - though maybe that's because supplies were running low before they closed and have since been replenished.

Might pick up the 25th Anniversary editions (with bonus material etc) of the Bunnymen albums when I get paid - £5 each. I think I spotted a couple of Japan albums I don't have on CD as well.

the latest:

HMV will not reopen Fopp in London
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/44220-hmv-will-not-reopen-fopp-in-london.html

Was in briefly today but didn't get much of a sense of what was going down. Shelves still pretty empty but boxes of stock seemed to be arriving. I bought the MIA album for 8.95 in HMV last week and it is £9 in Fopp!!

been to the cambridge one. may have changed up since it re-opened, but that point i'm pretty sure there was no store name anywhere except on the receipts (pre-printed?) which did say fopp. the price labels were the generic ones used by hmv. it was not particularly different from how it was tbh. sad the money now goes into an arms company but whaddayagonnado.

Yeah, I was there last friday.

It's sort of the same as Fopp was (in reading), there's plenty of stuff now at higher prices, a fair bit at the old "£3" (got the last Morrissey CD for that), and the £5 Nuggets CD is there.

I got the "Piper at the gates of Dawn" 3CD set, slightly cheaper at £16. Also appropriate for Cambridge.

i paid out for the 30th anniversary rereleases! prematurely aged though that may have been. so i dunno if the prospect of a stereo version is going to make me pay out again.

The mono one's the rare one tho, surely?!?!?!

huh. the cd i bought ten years ago was mono and came in a nice but totally pointless box. for one (1) cd, and some postcards.

the separately did a 6-track cd of the three syd singles.

i have never heard the stereo version.

the separately = they separately

I've never heard the mono version! That was the one all the Sydnuts wanted to hear for years! I've got the 6-track singles CD.

HMV have convinced landlords to let them re-open the Fopp Earlham Street store in London

http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/content.cgi?page=weblog

Fopp to re-open Covent Garden store.

Fopp is delighted to announce that its former London store at 1 Earlham Street, Covent Garden is to re-open.
The 4,000 sq.ft. store will recommence trading over its three floors from this Saturday, 6th October 2007.

bump...Fopp is coming back

not in bristol. (yet)
both shops cleared out and new signage on the way etc ..

Not being aware of this news, I was wandering around London's glittering West End on Sunday when I noticed an eerie glow coming from what used to be Fopp Covent Garden. Upon closer inspection, it proved to be Nu-Fopp, which is exactly the same as old Fopp, right down to staff members grumbling ominously about pay and conditions.

They had some nice Brazillian and other South American CDs for four quid, and the Pet Shop Boys Back to Mine for three quid, but not that many overwhelming bargains. Plenty to keep one's hand in, though. Oh, the Stiff boxset for 16 quid is quite good if you dig Any Trouble.

I got a Jodorowsky DVD boxset, which wasn't particularly cheap, but still, I am glad Fopp is back and does not look or feel like HMV.

More vinyl than before, I think. Suck It And See still exists.

The music is back: independent store set to take over from Fopp ...in Leamington Spa
http://www.kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk/newsl/The-music-is-back-independent.3369827.jp

I was looking rather dumbly through the window of the new Leamington shop like an idiot trying to see prices and things. Couldn't see anything (it's got these vicious shutters down).

That is all I have to say.

It's open and the prices and stock seem similar to Fopp.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/1828917970_d74aecc3fc.jpg

Is that its name? Head?

Oh Monseur le Head, you are really spoiling us...

Mmm, could happen!

And it's in Leamington, yes?

Yes and Yes.

And it was pretty busy to-day which i take to be a good sign. I bought some Cary Grant dvds, a...ahem...Mark Knopfler album, a Morrissey album (£2!), and some jazz. Oh, and Elf for the kids. With free alarm clock!

Didn't seem to have as much stuff generally (and 'electronica'/dancey, stuff in particular) but there were a few signs about saying that not all the stock was in.

do they still have "suck it and see" or is it now "We Give good Head - suck it and see"

branding copyright infringement alert: HEAD is sports equipment and clothing company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_%28company%29

also I wonder what the HMV executives would think of them - HEAD - using "Music Film + Books" ex Fopp retail design branding - when HMV bought the Fopp branding from the administrators?

Hmm, I just remembered something from ye olde Foppe. Glasgow Union St branch used to have at the top of the stairs (for a period of at least a few months), a selection of LPs with dancing 70s New Yorkers on the sleeves. You know the type of thing - hot pants, skimpy brown knitwear, afros, couples rumba'ing in the middle of crowds of onlookers. If I remember rightly, they were compilations of latin soul or similar, and some of the titles made reference to 'Neuva York'. Other than that, nada, I never even heard them so could be miles off the mark.

What the hell were these things? I'm desirous of owning them right now, but have no idea how to track them down or even find out what they were, and I've never seen anything like them since.

sounds like soul jazz to me.

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=195

Muchas gracias.

or, since you mention LPs plural, could be:
http://www.discogs.com/release/439182

(there was a whole series of these)

Yeah, that's the one! Good work!

last clipse album for £2 or £3. didn't buy, tho.

some branches, at least, are selling THE SIMPSONS MOVIE for a fiver

alas, it's not that good.

Hidden is in for £5 atm. I got Last House on the Left and Repulsion for £12 combined. Tha'll do me Mistah.

Fopp in Bristol to reopen March 27th

http://mynameispiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/fop-is-back.html

hurray. thats my lunch hour tomorrow sorted.

The old Reading one is still empty.

yeah the Fopp opposite my office in Bristol centre is still advertising the SMD album.
this new one is in yet another new location - their fourth for this place!