This shop is a real haven for guitar players and drummers. Electric guitars and bass guitars in one…read morearea, a beautifully relaxed acoustic instrument area where you can have a sample play of a range of hollow bodied instruments, and as for the stock of percussion: I've never seen anything like it. There are drum shells, cymbals, drum sticks, cahons, TRAVEL cahons, studio, live and stadium shakers, and a section dedicated to Brazilian percussion. My eyes are on a Squire Jazz bass and a beeeee-yoo-tee-ful mango scented Eddy Finn tenor ukelele with the warmest sound ever. My hands are all aver the percussion, banging this, twanging that, and shaking everything. My companion leaves with a guitar bag, a Shubb capo, and a guitar stand, all at good prices. I manage to resist the huge temptation of buying the tenor ukelele, even on the second visit to the shop later that day. And it's a regret, as the shop price is cheaper than any price I can find on the internet. Smiley, knowledgeable and freindly staff mean I'll be back here soon when I'm next in Nottingham.

You want a real Mellotron? There are only 2 companies that produce them...Streetly Electronics, the…read moreoriginators of the Mellotron, and some Swedish knockoff company. Streetly are very responsive and are carrying on the family tradition into the 2nd generation. They are the real deal.

I use hmv on the occasion to use my 10% discount, but i use selectadisc a lot It has a good…read moreselection and the shipping over the website is free and fast, so sometimes its just worth getting it over there!

HMV in the Victoria Centre is the larger of the city's two HMVs, and concentrates more on games and…read moreDVDs than the Broadmarsh's branch. From a personal perspective, this means that it's the worse of the two, in my opinion, but ignoring my personal bias, this branch is a lot easier to navigate, has a larger selection of stock and is larger, too. There is a massive selection of DVDs and games, of all genres and types, and a reasonable selection of music. Definitely worth a look!

Brighthouse seem to have a bad reputation all over the internet but I have to say that the Derby…read moreBranch is the exception. I have always found the staff polite and understanding. Each time I go in there they are always up for a chat. They also know most of their customers on a first name basis. The manager has a good rapport with his staff and his customers and always has laugh and a joke. I recently had a problem with one of my items but they were on the case very quickly. There was a big delay in getting in back but each time I asked about it they were quick to make a few phone calls and follow up for me. The problem was with the head office and not the store. On the odd occasion I have been late with payments, I have never had any threatening phone calls as are reported from other stores. I just had a polite phone call reminding me that payment is due. I love that you can go in and sit down on the big comfy leather sofas while you wait to be served and sometimes there is even coffee and biscuits on offer.

I go here every morning before school and during the day, it's a good shop and they always have…read moreeverything in stock.