Tangled Parrot pulls up roots: Welsh indie shop quits Carmarthen and Swansea High Street for new Kingsway flagship

The 26-year-old independent record shop is consolidating two stores into a single larger Swansea unit, not closing its doors for good.

Tangled Parrot, the Welsh independent that started life as Matt Davies' market stall in Carmarthen back in April 2000, is shutting its two original outposts. The Swansea High Street store was due to trade for the last time on Wednesday 27 May 2026, with the founding Carmarthen shop following on 30 May after a closing sale.

Before anyone reaches for the funeral notices: this is a move, not a death. The plan is to fold both shops into one bigger flagship at 61 Kingsway in Swansea, with doors expected to open before the end of June. The Hay-on-Wye branch carries on entirely as it was, untouched by any of this.

Both the sites being vacated sit inside active regeneration zones, and that redevelopment churn helped push the decision toward consolidation. Trading bricks-and-mortar through 26 years of high-street upheaval is no small feat, and choosing to scale up rather than quietly fold is the kind of stubbornness independent music retail runs on.

If you're in west Wales, the closing sales are the moment to dig through the racks one last time at the old addresses before everything migrates up the road to the Kingsway.