The last year has seen many of Dublin’s oldest and best independent record shops close. We’ve already covered the winding up of Road Records (June 2010), City Discs (January 2011) and Trout Records (February 2011). Not forgetting Fuzzy Logic (June 2010), Beatfinder (2010) and Rhythm Records (2009/10).
Today brings the sad news that Comet Records is to shut its doors for the last time on Friday April 15.
Comet’s tale has been one of ups and downs since it first opened on Chatham Street off Grafton Street in 1984 as Halley’s Comet appeared in the skies over Ireland.
Two years later it relocated to Crown Alley in Temple Bar. The shop moved again in 1989 to its present premises on Cope Street and a year later it opened a branch on Washington Street in Cork. However, in 2004 owner Brian O’Kelly was forced to close both shops.
He reopened in Dublin in 2009 but “this time we are going for good”, he told The Irish Times yesterday. “It has been on the cards for a very long time. There is a whole generation who have never paid anything for music and I don’t know if they will ever be prepared to pay anything for music.”
Comet Records, Temple Bar. Credit - infomatique.
Support the last ones out there – Borderline (Temple Bar), Freebird (Secret Book and Record Store, Wicklow Street), Mojo Records (Merchants Arch), Spindizzy (George’s Street Arcade), Rage Records (Fade Street), All-City (Temple Bar) and Sound Cellar (Nassau Street). Have I left anyone out?
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You should check out Into The Void records, a ray of light in a dirty city :))
All City in Temple Bar and R.A.G.E. on Fade Street
+1 for Into the Void it’s on Whitefriers street. And RAGE on Fade street.
that is sad news and very true nobody pays for music anymore
yeah really sad, does any one knows what happened with Abbey Records ? Same , Bankrupt ? or they move somewhere else ?
Billy from Abbey Discs is working in Comet for the next week.He is also selling off a lot of his stock for 4 euro or less, too. Come down and say bye to both of us before Friday 15th, and bring a big bag!!!!lol