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What’s New No. 01 · Lorenzo’s Records Wanted · 260a Brockley Road SE4 · Buy / Sell / Trade
No. 01September 2026Record shopBrockley, SE4
The shopfront of Lorenzo's Records Wanted on Brockley Road: a blue sign with red lettering, records in the window, Bamboo Chinese takeaway next door No.01Sept 26

Lorenzo’s Records Wanted

Lorenzo Bandiera spoke to What’s New in September 2026 about his life in music and how selling and curating vinyl has changed. Listen back, see what he played and read the full transcript.

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Show
What’s New No. 01
Station
AAJA Radio
Broadcast
18 September 2026
Host
Dan Moss
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The shop

Address
260a Brockley Road
London SE4 2SF
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Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday, 1pm to 7pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Website
lorenzosrecordswanted.com
Instagram
@lorenzosrecordswanted
Email
yourfavshack@gmail.com
Stock
New and second-hand vinyl: jazz, soul, house, jungle, reggae, rock, highlife and West African music, plus 7-inch 45s
Buying
Buy, sell and trade. Call or email to sell your records.
Owner
Lorenzo Bandiera
Lorenzo at the turntable behind his desk, walls of records on pine ledges beside him
Lorenzo at the desk
Inside the shop: records on ledges along both walls, wooden browsing bins, the front window onto the street
Inside the shop
The shop's roller shutter, painted with a mural of cartoon faces under the Lorenzo's sign
The shutter after hours

Tracklist

  1. LCSMAlien SphereSuper-Sonic Jazz
  2. Fela KutiYellow FeverAfrodisia
  3. Joe CassanoDio Lodato Per Sta Chanche
  4. BjörkVirusOne Little Independent
  5. Jimmy ChambersYou Can’t Fight ItFly By Night
  6. Aura SafariNiagaraTerra Solare
  7. Webby JayRain UnlimitedBackatcha

Transcript

Lorenzo’s answers from the September show, transcribed from the broadcast. Times refer to the broadcast segment. Music breaks are marked.

  1. Introductions

    I’m Lorenzo and I am the owner of Lorenzo’s Records Wanted.

  2. Starting out in Peckham

    I started in Peckham in 2015, roughly, taking over from my good friend Charlie Bones. It had to be more specialist: dance, funk, soul, jazz, plenty of reggae. Yeah, there was plenty of reggae lying around. There was some gospel as well. Of course, plenty of highlife, Nigerian, all kinds of West African stuff because of my neighbours. So, you know, from Fela to more obscure juju music. All the West African, you know, Nigeria, Ghana and all the rest.

  3. Music

  4. Growing up in Bologna

    Personally, I’ve always been in love with music, so I’ve always been buying CDs, vinyl, cassettes, from my hometown, Bologna. You know, growing up not far from a great record shop called Disco D’Oro.

    It doesn’t really define the shop. I would say maybe a great artist, a hip-hop artist who passed away, sadly, very young, with a very short career: Joe Cassano. I’m a friend of his brother. I haven’t seen him in years, but, you know, without thinking a second, Bologna, I would go for him.

  5. Music

  6. First job in London

    So music’s always been the core of the business, you know, more or less. My first job in London was for One Little Indian, for Derek and the crew. I used to do social media and digital marketing, so that was my first job in the music industry, I would say.

  7. Music

  8. Running the labels

    Having a record label, another record label called Terra Solare, and the first label was Fly By Night. I would choose one from Fly By Night, the old label. So an easy one is Jimmy Chambers, “You Can’t Fight It”, which was like a B-side of Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter. That was a soundtrack we licensed from Kenny Lynch. And on the B-side you’ve got my friend Riccio doing a remix. So for me that is the pick from Fly By Night.

  9. Music

  10. On Terra Solare, the new label, maybe I choose something from Aura Safari. Probably “Niagara”. Yeah, yeah. So Aura Safari, “Niagara”. That was a great 7-inch, a 45.

  11. Music

  12. What’s in the shop

    I try to be as choosy as possible. Today I’ve got some early, early, early house. ’86, from Trax, maybe one of the first releases. I can choose Talking Heads or Bruce Springsteen, going into a nice dub that came in last week. Webby J, “In The Rain”. The dub is great.

  13. Music

  14. The Brockley crowd

    I think the shop does so well because of the community of people around. Not only musicians, but music lovers and record collectors. And the beauty is because it’s so varied. You know, you find the old Jamaican guy, born here, who’s still into his lovers rock, to the family with the pram buying Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, which God knows how many we sell. So, you know, it’s the variety of, probably, Lewisham, and it’s amazing. I feel it, you know. I feel the spirit of the borough.