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Eel Pie Records opened for business on election day 2017 (insert your own joke here!).

We stock a large range of brand new records including new releases and re-issues. We have a lovingly curated 2nd hand section with a growing number of highly collectible items. We also stock a selection of new CDs. Our stock is primarily – Rock, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Country, Folk with a smattering of other genres.

Our 2nd hand stock has been acquired from local people selling their collections to us. We are always interested in buying records that are in good condition and that fit in with the shop. No Johnny Mathis or Barbara Streisand please!

Our objective is to offer music at the best price we can. We’re not expecting this to make us millionaires any time soon, just to provide us with a living and Twickenham with something different and interesting.

And we do damn fine coffee!

Come on down to 45……

Who’s who in Eel Pie Records

Kevin Jones

This is my first venture into retail. I have spent a lifetime until now working in social housing and local government so this has been a radical shift for me. But it’s one I was desperate to make to follow a dream that Phil and I had shared and had been talking about for over 5 years. I describe it starting as a 4 pint conversation, i.e., just a dream. Over time it became a 2 pint conversation, a 1 pint conversation. Then we got serious over coffee!

Like Phil, I have a passionate interest in and love of music. Since I was teenager I have been buying vinyl records, going to gigs and even more recently playing bass guitar and singing in a couple of bands. I already have quite a wide knowledge of music but I am driven to keep broadening that by discovering and listening to new music.

I am loving learning about how to run a small business, particularly marketing, the interaction with customers in the shop and staging our events. I even love keeping an eye on the accounts!

It’s a far cry from what I studied at University and was trained to do but somehow this feels like what I should have been doing all my life.

Phil Penman

(Nearly) my entire working life has been within the music industry, starting as a shop assistant in HMV Oxford in the late 1980s. I spent a few years at HMV rising to manage my own shop in Fulham, before moving to a sales rep job for an indie record company and then into a management role.

From there I went into retail buying for the huge company Entertainment UK (EUK), who were part of the Woolworths Group, supplying all the music to not only 800 Woolworths stores but also Asda, Tesco, WH Smiths, MVC, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Virgin/Zavvi and others.

From being Music Trading Controller there, I returned to HMV as Head Of Music. Then some time running the catalogue division at Rhino UK/Warners, before breaking free to work freelance doing product management work for several major record companies.

Whilst continuing to do this, latterly I have been looking after the recorded music archives for a major record company in the UK.

Over the last few years I have established a small record label (Drumfire Records), which has released c.30 titles and worked with Kevin to promote gigs locally under the banner ‘Drumfire Live’

My friendship with Kevin has been established over about 20 years of family concerns and mutual interest in music, football and beer. Kevin’s business acumen, enthusiasm and music knowledge (and love of accounts) has enabled us to have a great working relationship.

Customer reviews of Eel Pie Records Twickenham

An excellent little record store that sells both new and second hand vinyls and CDs (in great condition), competitively priced with decent coffee to sip whilst you take a break from your perusing. Attentive staff and a cool atmosphere befitting the good old days when you could browse in a record shop with decent background music without security following you up the isles and have a patronizing staff sniff at your purchases. It might not be the biggest record shop in London in terms of its size but it might certainly be the most convivial. Twickenham is damn lucky to have this new addition to its town.


Visited day one, obviously, the whole place not completely ready but such a good vibe and lovely people doing what they love. Adore church street location. I had never visited before. Will be coming back.


How fabulous to have a record shop on our doorstop!

Opening Hours

Monday

10-6

Tuesday

10-6

Wednesday

10-6

Thursday

10-6

Friday

10-6

Saturday

10-6

Sunday

11-6

Address

Our Address:

44-45 Church Street Twickenham TW1 3NR

GPS:

51.44677679999999, -0.32678520000001754

Telephone:

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