Swordfish Records

Swordfish Records traces its roots to 1979, when Mike and Gaz opened a record shop called Rockers on Hurst Street selling punk, post-punk and new romantic vinyl and running their own small label. The shop moved to Needless Alley in 1989 and was renamed Swordfish Records, moved again to Temple Street in 1996, and has traded from its current unit at 66 Dalton Street, close to the former Carling Academy, since 2013. New and secondhand vinyl and CDs fill the shop, spanning genres from blues and jazz to drum and bass, alongside classic reissues and collectible pressings. The shop takes part in Record Store Day each year with exclusive releases and in-store events, and has built a customer base among Birmingham's music scene over four and a half decades of continuous trading under the same ownership. It remains one of the longer-running independent record shops left in the city centre.