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The Local Music Scene in Harrow, Middlesex*

Harrow, Middlesex Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• The vinyl place opposite trinity, HMV is still the best offer for music though.
• Sellanby in South Harrow for second-hand records and CDs.
• HMV is the best now that virgin and mvc are closed, woolworths is ok but 2 commercial
• Sellanbys in South Harrow is a great CD shop you can spend hours in there looking through all the CDs and always find a bargain, he'll exchange CDs as well, and they have well cheap videos
• jammin with edwards.
• Virgin and MVC closed down, which is a pity because Harrow used to be the only town centre in greater London with one branch of every major chain music store. Now we've only got yer standard HMV in St Ann's and Jamming With Edward's.
• Sell n Buy in South Harrow all old school and some rare classics. A must to check out
• jammin with edwards
• Jamming With Edward's up Station Road, near the library. Or for a large selection of MOR crap your dad would love (and staff even older than your dad) with a few great bargains thrown in for good measure, try Sellanby in South Harrow.
• d'vinyl is shit, but it all we got. dont even grace hmv with your precious viewing time, head straight to london.
• Virgin megastores in St. Georges
• woolworths
• I go to Woolworths, maaaan. Always hundreds of CDs to pick from, not to mention the enthusiastic, friendly staff of 16 year olds, always ready to help you find that elusive Michelle McManus single in the bargain bin, full of rare, obscure delights.
• virgin megastore-great for shoplifting1 untill maybe your 10th attempt thend do not xpect 2 succeed!
• Jammin with edwards, or that Vinl shop alongfrom that (crap music in there tho)
• Virgin megastore in st georges is great for shoplifting untill yout 20th attempt then dont be prepared to succeed......
• the best music shop is jammin' with edward in harrow sort of near trinty bar. has cheap cds good and bad lots of rock.
• Jamin with Edwards! cheap, cool dude and got the best aroma, KILLL THE ONE NEXT IT SHITTY RAP MUSIC
• Jammin with edwards, that shop smells of grade so much man
• DiVinyl records stocks some really obscure stuff. Equals any vinyl place in Camden Town!
• D'vynl opp trinity
• i tend 2 go 2 virgin, hmv, or mvc, but i wud love a shop in harrow that woz dedicated to alternative music! does ne1 no of 1?
• There is no really good record shop in harrow or even near. Try rough trade in covent garden or selctadisc on berwick st.
• virgin,hmv,mvc,the little sly one at the top which sells cds for cheap
• Woolworths.
• I have just found Jamming with Edward and its really brilliant.You can buy any CD for £9.95 and get the second one for £5.Its so cheap.The owners are really friendly and know loads about music and they sell great T-shirts and posters.So few of these shops left anymore,we are just so lucky to have one in Harrow,and its open on Sundays!!!
• JAmming with Edwards, sell and buy (eastcote and s. harrow)
• Jamming with Edward on Station Road is the best (& only)record shop in town. If you are looking for bargins try elsewhere, possibley the only second hand record shop in the London that costs more than going into Virgin.
• D'Vinyl on Station Rd sells Drum and Bass and Garage.
• Meant to be a record shop openning in the lovely Rayners Lane last autumn - hasn't appeared yet though!
• D'vinyl is at 385 station road, opposite the trinity bar!!! tel: 0208 424 9491
• D'Vinyl Records has moved from Uxbridge and thankfully re-appeared in Harrow. Jon Manning is the owner and the UK Garage Guru. Frosty will help you with Drum 'n' Bass and Adrian just eats alot. d'vinyl stocks Garage UK and US, House, Jungle, Drum 'n' Bass, Old Skool, Hardcore and Club Classics. They get deliveries daily and will bend over backwards to help you get what you want - Knowledge is king, which means these guys rule! The shop is equipped with 4 listening booths and a huge selection of merchandise. Well worth a visit!!! *****
• MVC...why pay more
• Sellanby in South Harrow is the best all round secondhand record shop I've seen, this side of London. With C.D.s, videos and vinyl. If you are selling, they are usually pretty generous but dont expect a fortune if you take them your old crap.
• Pet Sounds HMV
• Sellanby Discs & Tapes has to be one of the best record shops in the area with a massive range of secondhand cds including stuff that's just been released at very reasonable prices. You can also trade in your old stuff and get new stuff! It's great! Did I also mention all the unplayed ( still in the wrappers!) vinyl they have going back years! And if that's not reason enough to look them up, they have the hugest collection of secondhand videos I have ever seen from films to BBC comedy and the prices are SO LOW! Definitely worth a look.
• FOR THE BEST VINYIL IN THE LAND GO 2 D'VINYIL RECORDS! IT'S WHERE THE OLD SKATE SHOP BOON DOX WAS. I'M NOW A GR8 FAN! V. V. FRIENDLY (i do not work at d'vinyil and am not plugging it for money making purposes)
• sellanby in south harrow for second hand good quality and sometimes rare stuff. good for the occasional promo copy of an album or single. also sell a few vids and dvds and tapes. very good prices.
• None. I dont buy records but there is a Virgin Megastore in the St Georges Centre. Horrible building.
• I found the best places to buy my CDs and some vinyl is from Jamming with Edward (Station Road). Eddie, the owner always helps find what you want, and you can also get other rock related items like t-shirts, necklaces etc. We need another Naked Records style dance music shop! NOW. Other than that there's Sellanby in South Harrow offering cheap 2nd hand music, they buy them too, but be warned, he will suck you dry of your good stuff for a couple of quid.
• Jammin with eddies i the only decent place that isnt taking a corporate ass raping, get your selves to notting hill or portobella road.
• Jamming With Edward is the place for me... There's some wonderful bargains to be had, the guy in there's really friendly (and supports Greenpeace - don't forget to do your bit and put some money in the box!! :-) ) and if you go there in the afternoon you can make a fuss of George, a gorgeous old English sheepdog that will lick you to death!
• theres no record shops you have to go to kilburn or edgware which isnt that bad cos the 340 goes edgware and the train (which is remarkably easy to get for free) goes kilburn high road from wealdstone
• its all about virgin record store. even tho woolies is cheaper!!
• Has to be Fast Eddies - Fat Eddies or Fat Joes who knows? But is opposite the Trinity, the Pizza Hut. Just up from the McDonalds. "Alternative", punk, rock indie whatever just not trance dance or pop.
• The bottom line of this message is that the shop isn't there anymore. I'm referring to the little record shop in the geengrocers by the silver trumpet. The father (Eddie) ran the greengrocers and the son (David) ran the records, both are now deceased having died within about 4 months of each other in 1995. The record side of the business was kept going by a couple of his children but eventually folded in 1998. I speak with authority as the greengrocer's son-in-law.
• Virgin and MVC are really the only record shops in Harrow, but MVC has a funny smell and in Virgin all till people are students so it takes 3 hours to buy a cd, the queues are so long..
• 'Jamming with Edward' - Always smelt a bit funny!
• Check out Variety Video on the parade near to where the old Cannon Cinema used to be, some good shops in the parade - Cigars, Flowers, Reastaurants plus a Odds'N'Ends shop.
• Naked Records near Wealdstone Post Office is good
• Dance types should head for Rayners Lane, where there's a couple of dance-oriented record shops. Go to Rayners Lane tube station, turn left through about 200 degrees and go down the hill. They're on the opposite side of the road.
• Central Harrow boasts the usual selection of Our Price etc, as well as another second-hand shop Jammin' With Edward.
• Excellent mixture of old and new records at an obscure little greengrocers near The Silver Trumpet between Harrow and Wealdstone. If you don't know much about music, prepare to feel stupid as it's a bit serious!
• Absolutely top ace second-hand shop in South Harrow called Sellanby (Sell & Buy, geddit, boom boom!), a couple of hundred yards from the tube station on the same side of the road. Best collection of second-hand CDs I've seen anywhere (except of course the R & T exchange in A HREF="3281.html">Notting Hill Gate), and very reasonably priced.

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• TRINITY after junction on a tuesday. theres a good mix in there and its real busy. plays some good indie rock as well. Rat and parrot on a friday is busy and has a resident DJ.
• Trinity is ok but overrated, the rayners is good for local bands and ned hylands in north harrow occasionally has crap acts on
• Well The Silver Trumpet down near wealdstone is an atrocious excuse for a pub, but if you fancy some drunken kareoke on tuesday nights theres nowhere else to go but there. And everyone there's a pensioner and deaf so they will all clap. Trinity's great for music
• The trinity on a tuesday night is the place to be. the nights called 'the indie-credibles' playin all the best indie rock n roll tunes from past and present.
• Oscars is crap now. Why do they bother?? It was good this time last year!! What changed??? I hope we get another good bar soon!!
• I hear the Garden Centre in central Harrow throws wild raves on Friday nights..
• TIME IS A PILE OF CRAP! I WENT THERE TO SEE THE SEEN, (WHO ARE OK) AND IT WAS FULLA ASHOLE TOWNIES
• harrow has no clubs but a thing called time aint been but it looks small and to expensive for wot it is,however the pubs are great on friday nights dont try and go o'neils if u r under 21 they wont let u in.
• WRC - had some good gig's once upon a time.... ah those wos the days Trinity- just the place to go if u can get in, junior won't let me in now! Defiance play there sometimes, why do the play frantic? i swear that song aint too popular with peeps!
• Time----they had the seen thats the only reason they get a mention---
• One thing that majorly annoys me about Harrow is the blatant lack of nightlife. The unfortunate Club Moonlight was replaced by an Indian family club called Mehrfil, so Time Nightclub in Central Harrow is the only remaining one! Not recommended unless you wanna watch spotty try-hards in Hackett tops and too much gold jewellery sleaze onto tarts with overplucked eyebrows and badly-bleached hair.
• Destiny, WATFORD...was PROPA BO till the little people took over and they crammed in every wannabe rude girl insight! Music is good, but I must get a fake I.D for the over 18's.....
• the george in pinner tends to have a gud craic, n as 4 clubs usually destiny in watford. but i tend 2 go 2 gigs, there woz a wkd one at bull and gate in kentish town last week, with defiance headlining.
• Now this is really funny. Harrow is devoid of anywhere worth going to, anyone who trys to tell you otherwise is a big fibber or drinking methylated spirits or something. Try brick lane instead, and time is a bag of shite.
• hahahaha harrow is a disgrace,the only club you'll in harrow is golf club round your head.theres nothing there but still theres always a fight.the only place is trinity on a thursday as they play drum n bass.apart that a load of crap and everyone has attitude.dont even go to watford,it has alot of clubs but the same attitude.you wanna go into london or if your prepared to travel,go to milton keynes
• The Gardening Centre down that road somewhere in the middle of Harrow.
• the hand in hand in pinner
• hahahah. Dont make me laugh. Time is a waste of, Trinity has a late licence but certainly isnt a club, Rat & Parrot also has a late licence but is visited by estate boys you'd rather run over and VIP Bar, or whatever the fuck it's called, has no VIPS.
• Come out and Play at Time, every wednesday £2 i think. Metal (nu&old), punk, hip hop, hardcore. ect.
• There's the one formerly known as The Bridge and surprisingly is on the bridge heading towards Wealdstone. Don't know what it's called now, but bullet proof vest advisable. If that doesn't appeal to you, cough up £15 and get a taxi to Watford.
• Go to Watford or London - we have a train to get there and cabs are still allowed to bring us back!
• Time's possibly the smallest club in the country but it's ok for a laugh if you can't be assed to trek up to watford. Go on Thursdays (carwash), Fridays or Saturdays (garage), NOT wednesdays unless you're into the 16 year old losers scene. Trinity is total pants unless your a goth or somethin. The Junction's ok to sit outside wiv mates in summer + it's got cheap drinks but for a night out...just don't! Yates's is good as is the R&P, but make sure you get in the Rat b4 11 cos they're w*nkers about that. Open late tho. Fat Controler's ok + Moons is well cheap (but no music.) Oscars is good to start off the night on a thursday (student night = £1.50 4 any drink!).
• nil of note. the trinity is a glorified bar run by pnancy boys with their heads up their own bottoms. Time.slappers and misfits who can't be bothered to get off their arses and go somewhere decent......like that place near the bridge in Wealdstone.
• Where?! Excellent, so someone has knocked down all the shite coffeeshops, filled in the skate park, knocked down the sorry excuse for a shopping centre St. Georges and built thenight club Harrow has been waiting for!(HW)
• TIME for a good fight. The Trinity if you like somewhere with it's head up it's own arse.
• Time in Harrow is the depths of crapness- NEVER go unless you really want a crap nite.
• I would like to defend Yates in Harrow although it aint the best nite out ive ever had, the atmosphere is gd and i think we need to be reminded of the sayin- "its what u make it"
• in harrow their is a club called "TIME" well every now and then they have these set days for say 70's and 80's music or club music its alrite i wouldnt say its the best but hay its HARROW i think that says it all! In watford there is "DESTINY" and "BAR REEZAR". Bar reezar tonight are having "SO SOLID CREW" down their playing live!
• erm well i never get in so im off to the forum! (kentish town)
• Time- Cheesy tiny club but funnily enought looksa HUGE when your plastered, plays a bit of everything from garage to steps costs about £8-10 to get in but its not to far away, so its kool.
• Time: Opposite NatWest in the center of Harrow. Wednesday nights is the day to arrive. Open from 10:30 till 2:00am. Ska/Punk/Rock/Metal night. Even if it's not your 'scene' the atmosphere is amazing, and the people are sound. The Junction: Used to be called The Firkin, to those old skool persons. It's changed since the old days, it has karaoke on Sunday eves, and a bloke spinnin' choonz on thurs eves...
• rubbish for any alternative/rock clubs. try london instead.
• Moonlight is the size of a semi - detached house. Time is even smaller.
• only chance of going to a club near harrow has to be heading out to costa del watford. Girls almost naked and loads of lads walking around on heat. Most people look like they are a product of inbreeding.
• Tudros used to be the only club and it is long gone. Harrow has always been terrible for after hours nightlife - something that needs to be addressed. Watford is collecting all of Harrow's nightclub money!
• Clubs, Harrow, now this cack hole has a few late night venues, I've seen proper clubs in my time and never seen one in Harrow. But for the sake of saying, there is Time - no trainers, no caps, "bung us yer fiver and have a nice night" jobbie. Trinity late night venue, some live bands, I remember 100% - great! This small hot crowded place has character and a reputation, nicely watered down beer too. O'Neills is probably the better atmposphere out of the lot.
• CLUB MOONLIGHT-has remarkable young patrons and noone goes there anymore. It used to be quite popular but after the council shut them down cos of fighting and CRUZE PROMOTIONS stopped promoting there cos its abit dry people stopped going. Now its gonna be over 21s and empty!! TIME-quite good CRUZE PROMOTIONS might hold a rave there CRUZE PROMOTIONS are the best promotors in harrow they hold all the good raves that everyone goes to.No one really goes to any one elses parties!
• oscars pub next to the cumberland is good and the staff are friendly and the music is wicked!!
• CLUB MOONLIGHT, present 'R.U.M.P' every Friday from 9pm-3am !! with a licensed bar untill 2am. Playing the very best in House & Garage and also R'n'B. Strictly no caps or Trainers. OVER 21's.
• There is now Time in Harrow, have no idea how good or bad it is. Have heard a lot of people go in and then out quite soon after. Tried to get in once, only shirts collars trousers and smart shoes allowed (ie Townies only). Also be careful not to insult the fat stained-shirted bloke dribbling with the bouncers - he is the owner. They will not let you in without a collar on your shirt no matter how may times you tell them its French Connection.
• Yate's looked nice.
• Trinity isn't bad.
• The most popular club is that which caters for people who like a lot of chocolate on their biscuit.
• Club Moonlight is the only remotely good club in the area
• Trinty on Friday nights, (next to the Red Lantern).
• At the Moment there is no night clubs in Harrow. But in Mid Febuary/March, a new and improve Night Clubs is going to be open. Much better the Zeniths, Leisure Lounge, Lime Lights and many other clubs. This place has had a total face life and meet all the requirement for a good night club. Also they have a wide range of drinks and cocktail for the drinkers. Also they are provide a food service too.They have invested £££ on the best lighting and sound equipments. Also they have lined up some brilliant D.J. The Place is call Club MoonLight, I hope you can come and visit the place, it is located right oppisite the Harrow Civic Centre. For any enquires, please E-mail at R4MZ@hotmail.com
• the majority of local sixth formers - st gregorys and st dominics tend to go to Parnells on the 183 route
• There is not any night clubs in Harrow (Teddy's in Wealdstone cannot be categorised as a night club - it is the worst hole in Harrow) But there are a few pubs that have DJ's in. The Trinity bar has House Music, Indie, Jazz etc. Also The Victory in Pinner has a DJ everynight and the place gets packed.

Live Music Venues

• Trinity occasionaly has live music for big bands hop on the train to central london
• Trinity bar has bands from time to time upstairs in a space for 50 people.
• The rayners
• Wembley Rugby Club is a shamebles but you HAVE to love it
• local bands play most Friday nights at the rugby club in Harrow weald, about a fiver to get in.
• Trinity bar, or VIP before it closed down
• WEMBLEY RUGBY CLUB! so crap but o so fun
• The Wembley Rugby Club in Harrow Weald hosts a couple of college rock Iron Maiden/Green Day wannabe bands every other Friday night (more commonly known as The Gig), but let's face it - no-one goes for the music. The punters are made up completely of Harrow and Hillingdon high school alternative kids, so unless you know someone you might find it pretty intimidating your first time.
• Can I just say, the Star (formally the Fornax and Firkin) is a good venue for live bands. And stop putting 100% down. They're extremely talented guys,(who just happen to be great friends of mine). Also they introduced The Frantix to the venue. They're two of the best bands in the area at the moment!
• In harrow? You jest! Although Cotton casino from Acid mothers temple did play a solo set at the wretched trinity bar.
• wembley rugby club
• Trinity- lots of stuff Wrc Uni campus- that place rocks.
• Trinity, Middlesex uni campus WRC (wembly rugby club, shut down now thoug or sut)
• I think Trinity occasionally showcases new talent.
• Trinity for drum and bass and hardcore. they need to bring it back, always had a good night!
• FORNAX AND FIRKIN - [SPUNGE] PLAYING EARLY DECEMBER CHARITY GIG!!!
• Wembley Rugby Club....aparently the last gig was Hell Nite on Halloween. I went, and it was a laugh. (If you were there I was the little hyper nut head, sitting on the floor outside laughing myself stupid with my pissed/lean mates!)
• wembly rugby club in harrow weald, but i aint bin there in yonks, trinty sumtimes have a few, and of course bull and gate.
• wembley Rugby Club
• The trinity is the only thing vaguely resembling a venue, and ive never caught the clap there.
• trinity,
• Its Time the Fornax and Firkin got credit where its due! Live music is surviving in Harrow Thanks to them, if you dont beleive me, head down there on Saturday August 9th, when 'FREED' - Then Tribute to Free, will be appearing, it will save you going to The Swindon Show, to see them open it on 1st August with another Top Tribute to Pink Floyd. It Costs Nothing to get in!!! best in Blues Rock for NADA, Nothing, ZIP Dont miss it! www.FREED.org.uk
• Wembley Arena
• Trinity Bar, pretty good, music upstairs, live bands play , you can hire the 130 limit room wiith bar and sound system and lightss for £50. The atmos is better than any other bar in Harrow. the people who run it are sound as well.
• The Rayners at Rayners Lane tries hard.
• SHELF STUDIOS....brilliant.I love the green room. O'Flaherty's north harrow. has some of the finest and dreariest of pub entertainers,depends what you're on.
• O'Neill's have bands every Thursday and Friday. Pretty good but some can be very bad.
• No LIVE music of any note. people recommending the firkin, trinity or anywhere else in harrow are too easily pleased. note Karaoke is not real music. neither is one man with a guitar,backing tapes and a tasty bird with a saxophone.
• harrow arts centre sometimes has a lot on
• Trinity Bar is the only music venue and they mostly have cack indie bands or people that play heavy metal. No talent has ever been discovered there. Saying that, management are nice. Other than the idiot pervie bouncers that feel they have the right to touch up every young female on entry. Not only do you have to pay to get in after 11 but you also have to be subjected to wandering bouncer hands.. . yuk!
• Trinity Bar is good but very cramped.
• If you havn't checked out showplans karaoke then you really are missing out! It makes a change to have a great sound system to sing through rather than the sad boxy rigs everybody thinks are the norm.showplan will be somewhere in the Harrow area.give them a call 0208 423 9411 or e mail:karaoke@showplan.com
• there are none
• Got to be Trinity, or South Harrow Firkin.
• Fornax and Firkin could do with a real shake-up and get some new bands to play- -IE;GET RID OF 100% AND ALL THE SAME BANDS WHO SEEM TO HAVE HAD A MONOPOLY ON THE PLACE FOR SO LONG-PLEASE NO MORE JAM "TRIBUTE"BANDS!!!
• wherever 100% are playing is bound to be wicked. The most talented and sexiest band. oh yes.
• Wembley Arena is the closest place from where Harrow residence can see well known Acts play.
• The Royal Legion Club occasionaly has a crap band in it
• there is always the litten tree in kenton where kenny thomas and alison limerick play
• The best music venue in Harrow is definitely The Fornax and Firkin, it's next door to South Harrow tube. There's live music every Thursday and Saturday with a jam night on Tuesday (newbies welcome). The music tends to be rock(ish) cover style and there is no charge to get in. Music covered includes Radiohead, The Manic's, The Doors, Ocean Colour Scene, Blur and even Abba. You know the kind of thing. There are some original bands too, playing some pretty good stuff. The atmosphere can be really great at times.
• None, apart from a few pubs.

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