After a week or so trekking across Spain and Portugal I find myself in Barcelona for the Primavera Sound Festival and the related Primavera Pro conference. I don't have a lot of time for checking out record stores but I manage to spend some hours fitting it into the schedule.
My first ever visit to Portugal takes me up and down the hills of the water side city digging through the racks of an impressive amount of record shops.
Between The Great Escape conference and festival in the UK and Primavera Pro & Sound in Spain, I had approximately a week to spend somewhere in Europe checking out the record stores of a couple of cities. Seeing I was already headed to Spain and I hadn't checked much of the record store scene on previous visits to the country, and I'd never even been to neighbouring Portugal, I decided to focus on some of the bigger cities of those two countries. First up it is the capital of Spain, Madrid.
