Having worked in record stores since the late ’80s, Rocksteady Record’s proud owner Pat Monaghan is a laidback, thoughtful and thoroughly knowledgeable music devotee. The store will stock mostly vinyl (new and second hand) and turntables, while Monaghan promises that his black-wax baby will focus on local talent, including bands not signed yet to big distributors. “A real driver for me was that when I was growing up, you could go to the city and do a tour of the CBD’s record stores,” he says. “I wanted to bring back more of a circuit – so now there’ll be Missing Link, Collectors Corner, Wax Museum Records, Off the Hip, Basement Discs and you can finish up at Rocksteady Records”.
It's one of those cool and curious CBD buildings that you've possibly walked by a million times – but have you ever popped in to check out what's there? If not, you need to remedy that situation right now.
And once you've enjoyed a new shopping adventure at Mitchell House, you should explore the vertical-retail joys of the Nicholas Building and Curtin House.