walking through back lanes of a old city up olive street there is a familiar sight a little shop with
a huge sign in the window. "HOT RATS"
this is the only name you need to know for everything metal, punk, rock, blues, rock n roll and local.
Ran by ex Toy Dolls Drummer Marty yule he will always greet you with a cheerful smile and "hello"
this store is the Aladdin's cave of music vinyl records from the past to the modern era, CDs, cassette tapes, band t shirts, patches,badges and all music memorabilia from any band.
looking through the CD collections all sorted from A to Z with genres, band names labelled you can find rare treasures and new music. up the road you have the bunker a music rehearsals and recording studio, many of the local bands come by here and sell their music in the shop, including my band spitfire bullets which can be found in the punk section with loaded 44 and hi fi spitfires.
Hot Rats is a great place to meet new people who share the same music interests, for bands to sell their music and if you want to, have a good chat to marty about his time in the toy dolls.
being a independent shop i wouldn't want to see this place closed down, its a piece of local history aswell as a local landmark. i have bought tons of stuff from it including vinyl records, CDs, t shirts
if you wanna check them out. go to the shop like literally get off your ass and go out side this store is not online its done the proper old fashioned way
but they are on facebook, check them out >> HOT RATS
