Matthew Clarke, a Nottingham DJ, record collector and former editor and publisher of Keep On, a music magazine that was distributed in Europe and the US and devoted to disco, house, funk, soul and rare groove, on the demise of Selectadisc:

Selectadisc employed experts – you had a tremendous amount of knowledge in there. There have been all sorts of people working there over the years. They used to run a Northern Soul label; there have been a few labels out of there over the years, helping out the local scene.

I used to buy vinyl, but you could just go there and browse the racks. It was interaction with the staff as well. You could go up and say 'What's new this week?' and they knew what type of music you liked. You could spend a good half an hour to an hour in there.

Nottingham's always been the East Midlands focal point for music. And today? You've still got venues hanging on, but it's a fact that when you've got music scenes happening, a music shop has always been at the centre of it. We don't have that any more, and that's really sad. Just a place for people to meet and exchange ideas, and so on. It's the intangibles like that which are going to be lost.

On the internet, people are just confronted with everything all at once. There's no kind of guide to it.