Online record and book shop, second hand records and rare books. Elvis Shakespeare

Welcome To Elvis Shakespeare

Purveyors of fine literature & music

We are specialist dealers in rare vinyl and quality literature, based in Edinburgh, with a shop at 347 Leith Walk, of which you can see a nice photograph below. Elvis Shakespeare

The premises have been open since May, 2005 and now you have the opportunity to peruse the stock at your leisure and then either pop into the shop or take advantage of our excellent online payment facilities to have fantastic music and books arrive promptly on your doorstep. All items are sent by First Class mail or Small Packet for overseas customers.

David Griffin We are specialists in punk and the alternative and indie lineage and also dance music from the late 1980s onwards. We are happy to buy collections both small and large and will collect in the Edinburgh area.

My name is David Griffin and I can be contacted via various email addresses on the website. I personally guarantee that all emails will be answered.

Buy Records Online

We have over 20,000 titles in stock! Choose from a variety of music including:

Alternative Country, Alternative Rock, Blues, Children's, Classical, Comedy, Compilations, Country, Dance, Disco, Easy Listening, Electronic, Folk, Hard Rock/Metal, Indie, Jazz, Pop, Punk Rock/New Wave, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip Hop, Reggae/Ska, Rock, SingerSongwriter, Soundtracks, Spoken Word, Trip Hop, World Music and others.

To make it easy for you, you can also search the records by media type: 7inch Single, 10/12inch Single, CD Single, LP Album, CD Album, Cassete, Flexidisc .

Buy Books Online

Choose from almost 8,000 titles:

Fiction	Poetry
Drama	Non-Fiction

Happy shopping!

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We use 100% secure online payments and accept following:

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NEWS

25-06-2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY IN SHOP 5 JULY FROM 1.00PM-6.00(ISH)PM
Beer KINDLY provided by local legends PILOT BEER. Come and party in the sunshine and celebrate the miracle of managing to survive for 20 years as a small business in the face of Edinburgh council's incompetence & corruption
All times are flexible!
1.00pm THE GROOVY SLICE
A Leith supergroup! Blink and you'll miss it rock 'n' roll!
1.45pm COD O'DONNELL
Dropped from a Wormhole over the Dead Holiday Resort of Dunbar and Now Stumbling Around Edinburgh, Cod O'Donnell's Music Captures the Sound of the Horror at the Back of the Biscuit Cupboard
2.15pm SASKIA HOLLING
Reading from her brand new book You And Me Against The World
2.30pm SHA RIVARI
A solo show
Sha Rivari throws 80s synths into the 60s garage and catapults both into the 21st century. The result is fresh and earthy garage/synth punk
3.15pm RODNEY RELAX followed by NICKY MELVILLE
These two radical poets both performed during the first ever live performance from the shop 20 years ago
Rodney has had so many incarnations it would fill this whole post
Just come and see him
N[n]ick[-e]y M[m]elville, in the parlance of our times, is a 'creative': a poet, writer, artist, educator, musician, and curator—the lot! Decade of Cu ts, his Selected poems, was published by Blue Diode in 2021. Other more and less substantial works exist on either side, chronologically speaking, of that year, including: Power Cuts (zimZalla 2024), The Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2022) and his ABBODIES sequence in which pop legends ABBA team up with problematic fave James Bond to make sense of the horror of Brexit and geopolitical coincidence. He makes music as Fuck This, a project which could be described as Ivor Cutler on [nick-]e. He lives in Edinburgh with his partner and their whippet Beckett
4.00pm THE BUCKY RAGE
If you like your rock n roll Fuzzy and played by Delinquents, look no further! The Rage are celebrating 20 years of their brand of Chaotic Wrestling Rock n Roll this year, come celebrate!
4.45pm WILLIAM DOUGLAS
William was the first ever musical performer in our shop as a fresh faced laddie
Come hear his lovely melodies now he's a grown-up!

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Jul

Immigration Truths

OK, all you racists and \"oh, but there\'s just too many of them coming in\" folk, how about a bit of truth.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), a govt department, recently came to the opinion that foreigners who come to live in the UK usually pay MORE taxes, need LESS supprt from the State (ie Housing Benefit, Unemployment Benefit etc)and are BETTER qualified to work.
In Scotland, we need immigration at all levels from cleaners to doctors (and some would say politicians)due to our declining and ageing population. England is going the same way and yet ... the media continues to demonize and anti-social behaviour by non-indigenous folk.
The conclusion is, if we keep the restrictions introduced by the govt last year in place (another effect being, the universities & colleges are losing large numbers of their overseas students who pay, on average, 5 times the fees of a home or EC student and keep many colleges going)then debt wi...

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