Dalston. The shop arm of Barely Breaking Even, in a railway arch.

Shop: The BBE Store
Address: 10 Helmsley Place, Arch 376
Town: London, United Kingdom
Established: 2016
Formats: Vinyl, CDs
Crates: Disco, Soul, Funk, Hip-hop, Jazz, House, Reggae, Blues
In the shop: Cafe, Step-free access, Bar
Opening hours: Mo off; Tu 12:00-17:00; We-Sa 12:00-23:00; Su 12:00-21:00

BBE - Barely Breaking Even - is the label DJs Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly started in 1996, named after the Universal Robot Band's 1982 track, and it has been putting out disco, soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz and house ever since. The shop began in 2016 as a pop-up marking twenty years of the label and stayed. It lives in Arch 376 alongside a bar, restaurant and workspace, and stocks thousands of new and second-hand records and CDs: BBE's own catalogue past and present, releases from Brownswood, Mr Bongo, R2 and Atjazz, and second-hand stock bought out of private collections