The small but mighty Rat Records has been a Camberwell draw for more than 15 years. It looks unassuming from the street, but inside it stocks a large, eclectic mix: pop, rock, African music, reggae, blues, jazz and more. On Saturday mornings vinyl hunters queue up outside to get first dibs on that week’s new batch – usually 500 or more records – with in-store DJs (complete with some crappy bargain-shop flashing lights) soundtracking their browsing. Recently Rat Records has even started its own range of merchandise, so if you’ve ever wanted a t-shirt parodying Kraftwerk’s ‘The Man-Machine’ album cover with rats instead of people, now you know where to go.
