About The Store For Music

The Store For Music Ltd is an online music store and an independent record label located in Surrey, England. We sell digital music as well as CDs and DVDs.

In the beginning

The Store For Music record label was formed by Brian Adams in the summer of 2001 when a series of tribute albums to major artistes were recorded in Hatch Farm Studios, a sister company situated in the same premises. These albums all feature well known UK rock musicians from a wide variation of successful bands, and the tributes were to major rock stars such as UFO, Sting & Police, The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Yes, Whitesnake and others.

It seemed perfectly natural to create an outlet for the music in Europe along with other product that was owned by the two companies. Subsequently albums were released by Rick Wakeman, Sham 69, China Crisis and Little River Band bringing the number of releases by 2005 to around 25.

Expansion

In 2005 Brian was joined by a second shareholder, Mr. Michael Stockdale, who, like Brian, also has a long history in music and the label was the formed into a separate Limited company.

The first release, distributed via Plastic Head Distribution, was an album from Michael Schenker Group, which had a very good reaction at retail.

Prompted by this and the addition of 2 new young recruits, Michelle Clement ( Label Manager, Production ) and Charles Sexton ( Web Designer / Programmer, Head of Digital Content ), The Store For Music Ltd resulted in signing a long term agreement with Renaissance Records in North America to represent their titles in Europe, South East Asia and Australia.

These releases commence in early November 2006 with a new White album featuring Alan White from Yes and Geoff Downes of Asia.

The future

2007 will see a constant flow of releases that will all be available to purchase as finished goods or downloads from The Store for Music site direct.