Skeleton Records

Skelly's record of the week #22 - a rare Interpol single: Obstacle 1/Obstacle 2 (Peel session). As selected and modelled (in very few takes) by Dave Lloyd - guitarist, singer and songwriter with excellent Wirral band The Suns. He paid me to say that 👍All excellent Suns albums available in store - check 'em out 😎

Skelly's record of the week #21 - circa 500 7" singles just arrived! A brief selection, as presented by the Immortal Leslie: 1) Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack The Ripper £12 (UK Charley - kinda rare) 2) The Cure - The Walk £15 (the poster sleeve) 3) Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack £12 4) Gene Vincent - Roll Over Beethoven (Johnny Walker session) £8... 5) The Pixies - Planet of Sound £4.50 6) Klark Kent (aka S. Copeland) - Don't Care £3.50 7) David Bowie - Bertolt Brecht's Baal £4.50
There's also circa 493 more, name an artist 😎
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Skelly's record of the week #20 - a multitude of Smiths singles! As modelled with aplomb by the lovely Becki 😎
So... A Dedication To Steve Wright £15 Shakespeare's Relative £8 Bill It Was Rather Small £10... The Boy With A Damaged Sternum £10 Ask (no puns available) £8 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and Now and Now and... £8 The Other One £15
Anyone who can name all 7 can have a 16p discount on their next purchase.
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Skelly's record of the week #19 - another "rarest thing in the shop" contender. Presenting "Soul Connection" by the Wallace Brothers, UK Sue original from 1965! A must for any Island/Sue collectors, VG/VG and fifty quid. You won't find another in a hurry, not expecting it to hang around for long...
As modelled by her gothic highness the lovely Becki and with a plug for Graham Jones' book - The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made It Happen, featuring the story of this shop and many others like us 😎

Skelly's record of the week #18 - Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Oz gloriously bellowing their way through Crazy Train! Original UK single on Jet (ELO's record label, go figure...), rare and near mint. We're asking 18 quid, but claiming that that's cheap! As modelled with... Ozzyness... by the artist formerly known as the lovely Becki. Scared? Me too 😎

Skelly's record of the week #17 - a regular request: "Gorreny Pink Floyd dere mate?" Go on then, UK black/silver Columbia of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Price available on request, but it's about a third of that of the first press! As reluctantly modelled, from the top of a ladder, by... me. This is me, hello.

Skelly's record of the week #16 - Rush, "A Farewell To Kings" 4LP boxset, brand new and sealed. Yours for 75 quid! As ecstaticly modelled and selected for record of the week by Andy and his hat! 😎

Skelly's record of the week #15 - bit of classic blues in the form of B. B. King's "Take a Swing With Me." Original UK Blue Horizon, lovely condition and highly collectable - the good stuff! As modelled by Mick, plus the man himself Mr John Weaver 😎

Skelly's record of the week #14 - The Rockford Files by Mike Post, £1.50. No explanation required/provided ⚪ 😎

Stop press, it's World Goth Day! To 'celebrate,' here's a selection of gothic standards (all on black vinyl, fear not!), compiled by our resident goth. Hiding in the corner, out of reach of direct sunlight, and inventing new shades of the colour black, it is of course the lovely Becki!
1) Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (original) £10 2) Bauhaus - Mask (new) £14 3) The Cure - Faith (new) £18... 4) Siouxsie & The Banshees - Juju (new) £18 5) Sisters of Mercy - Greatest Hits (new) £18 It's also Moz's birthday so, staying with the theme of misery, have a bonus 12" of Our Frank! Cheerful customers may also visit, but today is... black. 🖤
Normal service will resume on Friday!
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Skelly's record of the week #13 - another for the Oasis fans. Very rare and collectable promo only copy of Acquiesce, on offer at half price - was £80, now £40! As modelled by two thirds of the lovely Becki; fan club membership available now, ask in the shop 😎

Skelly's record of the week #12 - South African only Beatles compilation, possibly the rarest thing in the shop, but we've got a lot of stock... £120 and it's yours! As modelled by drummer extraordinaire (and occasional Ringo impersonator) Chris Sharrock, of Oasis, R*bb*e W******s, the Icicle Works, the La's and both Gallagher brothers (we hold no favouritism!), regular customer and enormous Mrs Mills fan(!) 😎

Skelly's record of the week #11 - this was meant to be a focus on a rare stereo first press of the Kinks' "Face To Face." However, Becki's been distracted by Sparky's Magic Piano... One's insanely rare and up for £120, the other's... 6 quid! As modelled absently by the lovely Becki. Fan club mail to PO Box 1, the back room, Skeleton Records 😎

Skelly's record of the week #10 - The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp, stereo first press, VG+/EX. A steal at £60, as modelled in his own idiosyncratic manner by Martin Ward of The Delian Pool and the legendary Mr John Weaver of the back room 😎

Skelly's record of the week #9 - "Electric Ladyland part 2." Lovely condition, find one in better nic and we'll be... disappointed. Take the Easter eggs back - sixty quid and it's yours! As modelled by "James M. Hendrix." 😎 Please note we are closed Friday and Monday for Easter.

Saturday is record store day... Skellys DOES NOT do record store day, so enjoy an equally random selection of goodies that we've got, minus the publicity gimmicks and ridiculous eBay resale prices 😎
1) Daftest thing in the shop - Sheb Wooley & The Santa People - Santa and the Purple People Eater, 7". £6 2) Pink Floyd - Pulse, 4 live LP collection. £100 new 3) Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbet, blue vinyl. £45, buy it!... 4) Something by Kate Bush... 5) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, 4CD, DVD + vinyl £35 new 6) The Coral - Move Through the Dawn, £18 new 7) Eric Clapton box set, live at the Royal Albert Hall. £60 new 8 ) "Punk and Disorderly" - 1983 Cherry Red compilation. £15 9) Ezz Reco, Jamaica Blue Beat, ep. 1964. £40 10) Ramones - Leave Home, £45 new 11) A Georgia Satellites picture disc. £4.50 12) A Bowie picture disc £30 13) An ELO box set £55 14) The Cocteau Twins. All three of them, 99p per twin. 15) The White album remaster, 4LP set 16) Cheap Thrills, new press £18 17) The lovely Becki up a ladder. Not for sale.
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Skelly's record of the week #7 - absurdly rare and absurdly mint - Chicken Shack, with Christine Perfect (later McVie), and Forty Blue Fingers! Price available on request; as modelled by the lovely Beckki and the legendary Mr John Weaver himself 😎

New release time - by friends of the shop, The Delian Pool. Their excellent second album, "Affectedly Yours," out on vinyl and CD! As modelled by Dave, as only Dave can. Check it out, it's rather good 😎