Bear Tree Records
Unit 13-16, The Forum, 127 Devonshire Street, Sheffield, S3 7SB
I come from around Sheffield really, but went to university in Nottingham, and that’s where I got my first job in a record shop at the legendary Selectadisc… it was a great place to work. I moved back to Sheffield in 2006 and opened my (first) own shop which lasted a huge 6 (stressful) months, it was specialising in weird and wonderful sounds, and was basically a disaster. Ha. But, you learn from you mistakes. The shop turned into a label which I still do on a fairly infrequent basis. I managed a few years just doing the label, then worked in a few record shops in Sheffield. I wanted to go solo again and had a lot of specific things in mind from what I wanted (and personally liked about other record shops) and finally in late 2015 I opened Bear Tree. It was tiny at first, but after a year we moved to a bigger unit and it’s going good.
