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Tangled Parrot - Record Shop in Swansea

Matt Davies's shop, Guardian top ten, and a champion of Welsh-language music.

Shop
Tangled Parrot
Town
Swansea, United Kingdom
Established
2000
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, Cassette
Crates
Indie, Rock, Punk, Metal, Folk, Electronic
In the shop
Cafe, In-store gigs

Matt Davies, a former punk, opened Tangled Parrot in Carmarthen in 2000 and it has since spread to Swansea and Hay-on-Wye. The Guardian has put it in Britain's top ten record shops. What distinguishes it is not the stock list - mainstream through to the extreme end, plus rare second-hand - but that it backs local artists and Welsh-language acts as a matter of policy, in a country where those records have to be sold by someone who cares whether they sell. The Swansea shop has a cafe in it.