Reddingtons Rare Records
It’s not often we plug businesses here at Head Full of Snow, but Birmingham’s own Dan Reddington, the virtual storekeeper at Reddingtons Rare Records, has inspired me to break with tradition.
Reddingtons Rare Records in 2006. Image courtesy of and © Andy Brown
Not only is his online store an Aladdin’s cave of rare vinyl treats, festooned with decade’s worth of original pressings, but the man himself goes out of his way to help.
I had the need to contact Dan for an article I’m currently writing, and though we’d never spoken before, he went far beyond my expectations with his assistance, eventually managing to put me in contact with two members of The Idle Race. Sir, I salute thee.
Dan started his vast collection in 1954 with a Sammy Davis Jnr. record, and the shop from which he ran his business stood for 40 years just behind Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. It closed three years ago and Reddingtons Rare Records is now run solely as a mail-order business through his website.
So if there is a particularly rare slab of vinyl you’re after, whether it be psychedelic, progressive or anything else, there’s every chance that Dan either has it, or knows someone who can get their hands on it.
Collectors of rare vinyl should check him out:
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