EP64 - PRELOVED MODERN CLASSICS RETAILER- Matt Love

Pre-loved modern classics seller. Matt runs The Good Love in Brightlingsea with his wife Laura. He might look like a sexy train driver, but he is a retailer. Previously above Roots And Grooves in Colchester. A shop with ‘everything in it’. Finding things for customers, like a record by a Blackpool Tower Organist. Finding vintage is like being a detective. Records are big sellers currently, people are loving retro vinyl. Collecting records since he was 12, and then buying and selling on discogs has given Matt an encyclopedic knowledge of what’s popular and what’s valuable - he’s in his element with a random box of music. People are loving wax jackets, the country gent meets Farrage look. Picking out vintage streetwear at car boot sales. How boot sales have changed, everyone’s a reseller! How to price up vintage clothes. Sell at the price you’d want to buy at. Brightlingsea is getting cool and growing a creative vibe. The Good Love is growing into a creative hub with DJs and coffee and chances to hang out. Which records always go into the bin. Wolf fleeces. When Matt met his future wife Laura, they were both sellers on Vinted, and connected over selling vintage. Circular fashion is an environmentally conscious way to shop. Giving out dog biscuits. First profit is best profit, keep stock moving. Rotating stock in the window to keep it fresh. Making friends with Matt via Mark563 in Australia and his hip hop colouring book. Buying pre-loved clothes in France. Dungarees problems and Orangutan Sausage Dog. Making it up as you go along with creativity and business. 

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Transcript

Nick 0:01

Dead air's a crime. You know that.

Matt Love 0:03

Dead air's fun.

Nick 0:04

It's the only time I've ever seen you not talking. I can't get a word in normally. Me and Matt go skateboarding, and I'm like, Matt, can I do some skateboarding, please? Because he's just he won't stop talking.

Matt Love 0:14

He doesn't know what a microphone on. Microcone.

Nick 0:18

I'm going to bring an I'm going to bring an SM58 out with me and stick it in your face and we'll shut up. Matt wasn't given any full stops or they were giving out full stops.

Matt Love 0:29

Full stops are for losers.

Nick 0:33

What do you want? An interro bang?

Matt Love 0:34

Interabang.

Nick 0:35

Yeah. It's um it's an exclamation mark and a question mark at the same time. Let's do it. Shall we start this podcast? Yeah, come on. Let's guess. I've got the energy for this.

Matt Love 0:46

It's gonna be hard work.

Nick 0:48

It's a night out for Matt and a night off for his wife.

Matt Love 0:52

Yeah.

Nick 0:58

Welcome back to Are You Creative? This is a podcast about creativity in Essex. I'm Nick Henn, creative genius.

Matt Love 1:12

Sorry, can I say that you've cut your podcast? So that's every creative genius, creative guru, the man who invented just being a creative director. You've blown so much smoke at your own bummer. You're not leaving to let me. Oh, hang on, hang on. Have you won the wall this week?

Nick 1:29

Yes, I have. Yes, I have. Last night, last night, Domino's Pizza won Brand of the Year at the Marketing Society Awards. Thank you very much. I was slightly involved with that. Slightly involved. Slightly involved, so that was good. What'd you do?

Matt Love 1:45

Eat a pizza.

Nick 1:49

Only, only, only the marketing for them. So we go. Brand of the year, that was pretty good. Of course. Creative God. I'd like to be um you know that beating the 300, the film where they're carrying the guy round on the pyramid. Yeah, that's what I'd like for the rest of the week, please. Yeah, I'm here with Sangate. She's not probably won any awards this week. Top of your class, though, aren't you?

Sangita 2:08

I'm top of the class, I did, yeah. Big up yourself. Yeah, was in a quiz and I really did come to this again. I'm an old sport. Yeah, but you got top of the class. Yeah, I'm not gonna be. Teachers pet.

Nick 2:20

Putting that app on the desk.

Sangita 2:22

And we got we got another guest.

Nick 2:25

Unfortunately, unfortunately, Sangator, we've got another guest here. Oh and what is your name?

Matt Love 2:30

Matt Love. Off Love.

Nick 2:32

Yeah, sound doesn't sound like a real name. Sounds like a made-up name. But um Matt Love, are you from Essex?

Matt Love 2:40

I am now.

Nick 2:41

Yeah. But so you live in Essex now.

Matt Love 2:43

I do live, yes. I live in Chelmsford.

Nick 2:45

Oh, beautiful. That's so nice to meet you.

Matt Love 2:48

Lovely to meet you.

Nick 2:48

Where were you from originally?

Matt Love 2:50

East London.

Nick 2:52

Wait, so you're like flirting with the Essex border and then you one day you decided to come over.

Matt Love 2:56

I was East East, an artist.

Nick 2:58

And then you went East East, East East, East. I love it, yeah. Because you grew up around Hornchurch and stuff like that, didn't you? No. What?

Matt Love 3:07

No.

Nick 3:07

Where?

Matt Love 3:08

Walk from Slow, Chinkford. That's right.

Nick 3:10

Okay, yeah, alright. Cool. I mean it's practically Essex anyway. It's a stepping stone. Everyone goes everyone goes from Hackney, then then move there, then they move out to Essex.

Matt Love 3:18

Yeah. And then you end up out here.

Nick 3:20

Yeah, then you end up in Chelms. So before you know it, then you're in Bewley.

Matt Love 3:23

Oh no, no.

Sangita 3:27

There's nothing wrong with Beoley. There isn't.

Nick 3:33

Bewelly. I'll give you a list. Matt Love, Matt. Matt Lovey. Matt Love. Matt Love. Matt Love. Matt Love. Okay. Move yourself. Matt Love. Matt Love. Are you creative?

Matt Love 3:42

Yes.

Nick 3:44

Yeah, he's good. Now, Sangito, Sangator, look at this guy's face.

Sangita 3:50

What do you think Matt Love does? Now, can I be really honest? What I thought.

Nick 3:54

Well, oh no, no, Sangito, please be overly honest. Okay. I'd love you to be overly honest though.

Sangita 4:01

So there were two things from Who let this guy in? There's there's um not Inspector Poirot, but like a like a like a Sherlocker someone. I can just imagine you in a long jacket with with with A detective. A detective you think he won't be a detective?

Nick 4:19

No. I love that. That's really random.

Sangita 4:21

He looks like a detective.

Nick 4:25

He looks like a duck detective.

Matt Love 4:26

I've been called many things from everything.

Sangita 4:28

And not a detective. Yeah. Or a steam engine driver. That's the only other thing I would have thought was a steam engine driver.

Matt Love 4:36

When I got married, my wife actually said to me, You look like a sexy train driver.

Sangita 4:41

Ah, there you go.

Matt Love 4:42

But I'm not a train driver.

Sangita 4:43

Oh, alright, I'll give up on this one.

Nick 4:46

She said that on the aisle when you're walking down the aisle. Yeah, just before, yeah. You look like a sexy train driver.

Matt Love 4:52

Her voice is a little bit deeper. What were you wearing? I was wearing a well. You look like a train driver's suit. It was like a a cohort, an ooski cohort, but maybe blue.

Nick 5:06

And what did you did you have a thing around your neck for tickets and stuff?

Matt Love 5:09

No, I wasn't inspected as a driver. And a coal, I had some coal with me.

Nick 5:15

A shovel, a shovel of coal. It's just all over your face.

Sangita 5:20

I love it. Go on, tell us.

Nick 5:22

Oh, so Gita, your your guests are a detective train driver. Steve train driver. I think you're you're pretty close. What are you meant?

Matt Love 5:33

Well, I I run a pre-love vintage shop. And I do jo, make music, and do a bit of all sorts of things.

Nick 5:40

We are so we are here today. We're gathered here today to talk about Matt's pre-loved and vintage shop. Wow. Which is called The Good Love. Not the good life.

Matt Love 5:52

But if you look at the logo, it's nothing to nothing at all like the good life. Nothing at all.

Nick 5:58

I can't look at your logo without getting the music in my head. I know. It's brilliant. So Matt's good love. The good love presents, and it's got a beautiful flower on the logo that says good love. Very retro writing. Where's your shop?

Matt Love 6:10

The Brighton, see.

Nick 6:11

You've got two shops though.

Matt Love 6:12

Well, no, we had a shop above Roots and Groove in Culture, which a shop I'd say it was a narrow room.

Nick 6:18

Yeah, but it was it was still there on Saturday when I was in Colchester.

Matt Love 6:20

Yeah, there's still stuff in there.

Nick 6:21

You just haven't even moved out.

Matt Love 6:23

Yeah, exactly. You haven't left it in there. Squatters. They got squatters, right? Sankia, this was pre pre pre-love now because Matt doesn't love it anymore. He's just left it there. He's just sitting there, pill just come and buy it, and then we collect the money, which is great, did nothing at all with that. Oh, that's wicked. So that's a passive that's a passive shop. That's passive, yeah. That's passive. Then we've got our main shop, is in Brighton Street on the corner of the High Street and Tower Street. If you walk down to Marina, you can't miss us. We're on the corner. We're on the shop with everything in it.

Nick 6:58

I like to think about your shop as like Mr. Ben's shop or something. You could just go in and you just come out with like a suit of armour on or something.

Matt Love 7:04

Between Mr. Ben and Bagpus. I love it. We have people come in, and if we find something for them, we leave it in the window. So when they come back, they can sit. And when a couple of weeks, about a couple of months ago, a woman came in and she was from Blackpool. And she's like, By any chance, you wouldn't have this album by this organ player who used to play the Blackpool Tower. What? No. That's so niche. Yeah, so niche. The next day, a guy comes in, and his brother had passed away, and he gave us a bag of records. No. And there was a mint copy of that album in there. Which we then put in the window, and the woman came in the next day and was just like, what the f it was the fact that this mean album who buys albums by a black Paul Talbot organist? No one.

Nick 7:50

And that's mad, isn't it?

Matt Love 7:51

The fact that this guy bought it, and it was there, yeah.

Nick 7:53

So Matt is a little bit like a detective there because yeah, it's um I don't know.

Matt Love 7:58

How did you manifest that record to come? I can't say I'll be a detective because I'm always out hunting things. Yeah. It's got to be a detective and American pickers. Yeah! The other day we went round someone's house in Tolling Tollington, Tollington, I don't know, it's somewhere nearby. And they said, come round, my parents are hoarders. And I went round and every there's about ten sheds in the garden. They were just full of treasures. Oh wow. And there was what treasures?

Nick 8:25

Like Pharaoh's heads and stuff, or for records.

Matt Love 8:28

Pharaoh's head, Paul Paul Daniels, his skull was there.

Nick 8:32

He actually had a he had a diamond skull, didn't he?

Matt Love 8:35

I don't know. Actually, himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Evie McGee now carries it in a small bag, doesn't he?

Nick 8:40

Just got the end of a walking skull.

Matt Love 8:42

Yeah, oh bless him. But yeah, this people, this house, and they had everything. They just had like loads of sort of West German pottery and the thing I should have bought, like the PG Chimps monkey.

Nick 8:52

Oh yeah.

Matt Love 8:53

I had that, so I'm tempted to go and get them get him back.

Nick 8:55

But what they wanted you just come in and buy stuff.

Matt Love 8:56

I come, yeah, because their dad used to do demolition. Yeah. He'd done demolition for 50 years. Sorry, I'm sitting in it. And then he didn't I didn't ever throw anything away. And now he's passed away and they're getting ready to downsize. But it was literally.

Nick 9:10

So he it was it was like, oh, shed's getting a bit full of stuff. I just buy another shed. Yeah, yeah.

Matt Love 9:15

It was like when you know if you watch American Pickers, that happens. It was literally you'd go into a shed and you'd lift things up and it'd be like, what's that? And under there there'd be more stuff and we just got sounds like you need a week there. Well, yeah, we do. Well, we've I mean we've gone now, we're gonna give it a month and go back when other people have picked. Yeah. You can get in because the sheds you couldn't even get into. But there were so many, just lots like 1970s, clocks, things, just good stuff. It's all right.

Nick 9:42

So what are you um you know what what are you looking for? Like what's selling at the moment?

Matt Love 9:46

And do you know what? Records at the moment. It started off I wasn't gonna do records. So I'd worked in Intense Records for a while, I'd sort of had enough of records. I've always sold records since I was about twelve. I've always sold bits, and then I I'd got I've always I've sold clothes, and I thought we're gonna do the shop, we're not gonna do the records. Then we went halves with a guy who runs a shop, and we halves and he had records, so we was going halves on the records, and then he just he wanted to pull out, so then we've taken over.

Nick 10:12

Now I've just gone like headstrong on the records and because you you you before you were like the master of discogs, right? Like you get I remember you used to go around car boot sales, yeah. And you said you'd go in you'd go in a record box, you go through a record box, you could look at the first two or three records and be like, okay, that box is worth this much because he'd know what else was going to be in there.

Matt Love 10:31

Yeah, that's what I've that's what I've today I've done at the shop. Just sat there. But the problem is in the shop, I could have the door open and let people in, but it gets so cold. Yeah, it's like an old shop, no heating. My feet I I stop when my fingers don't work as well. But it's I love today, like to go through records and like the most nondescript record, and that'd be worth like 120 quid. Wow, yeah.

Nick 10:49

So you've got a bit little, you've got you've got a bit of a database in your head that you can kind of get an idea.

Matt Love 10:53

I know what I'm looking for at all times. It's good now. People have started bringing things into us. A guy turned up yesterday, stopped outside the front of the shop, and just shouted, Yeah, mate, do you want any of this? And opened up the back of his car. In the back of his car, he had a retractable washing line, yeah, a bag of high vises, okay, some of them, you know, if you go to the pound land, them little like plastic cactuses. Yeah, yeah. But then he had about that high, a sorry saying that high, what's that about?

Nick 11:23

Uh 12-inch. About the size of a 12-inch record.

Matt Love 11:27

That's probably, yeah. Yeah, roughly. Yeah, roughly. A 12-inch brass nefertiti head.

Nick 11:31

What? Yeah. I told you there's pharaoh heads, eh?

Matt Love 11:34

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so we got that, and then there's a lovely woman who her dad was living, she was born in Hong Kong. Her dad was in the army in uh in the Second World War. And they're clearing all this stuff, and she keeps turning up, like gave us like solid silver teacups the other days. Amazing. They just keep people just turn up and say, Do you want this?

Nick 11:55

Yeah.

Matt Love 11:56

And it's like, no, maybe, or yeah, but you don't you don't want to be rude, don't you? But also sometimes a guy came in the other week from the carpet shop and said, I've got these records, and they just they've been eaten by that stage on. I just had I just had to tell him no, I was like, just put them in the bim, mate. Well, a guy coming today of his it was his dad's collection of 78s.

Nick 12:18

Yeah, yeah.

Matt Love 12:18

And yeah, 78s are this that no one wants them. So I tell you the only people who really want 78s are dead. You know what I mean? It's such a such an old such an old format. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nick 12:33

It's not like you're gonna get an amazing white label on a 78, is it?

Matt Love 12:36

But in fact, a guy did come in recently, he went for the 78s, and there was a couple of Elvis ones in there. Yeah. And they were worth like 20 pounds, and he turned his nose up. I think he wanted to pay 5p for them.

Nick 12:46

Was any of the old Northern Soul stuff on 78? No, no.

Matt Love 12:49

No, look now. 78 is just gonna be Elvis, but then before this sort of like this stuff that your grandparents wouldn't listen to, you know, but it's like that old, and it's sort of no one's gonna listen to it again.

Nick 13:04

So that's pretty much only good for decoration, like putting up on the walls in uh in the cafes and stuff. Yeah, exactly.

Matt Love 13:09

Yeah, it's like people doing artwork, put with records. I've got so many record negative. You know, people make them awful pots, yeah, and you'll sit and they've made a pot out of something good, yeah. And there's no one's just shit records, and they've taken they've taken something good and made it into an ashtray or something like that. It's like why?

Nick 13:27

Yeah, like they're like that. Oh yeah, put made this Fleetwood Mac album that's worth a hundred quid.

Matt Love 13:32

Remember, them people are creative. Oh yeah, creative. I like your air quotes creative. Yeah, exactly.

Nick 13:38

I'll tell you, look, there's a lot of creative people doing stuff like that. They'll follow a YouTube tutorial, grab the nearest vinyl. Vinyls, vinyls, yeah, and then you'll make you cry.

Matt Love 13:49

Yeah.

Nick 13:50

I mean, I mean, I'm glad they got something out of it anyway. So basically, if you have a uh a record that you've turned into a plant pot or sorry, take it into show Matt at the Good Love Project. Take it into show Matt, collect his tears and bring them to me, and I'll pay you handsomely.

Matt Love 14:13

What else is selling at the moment? Selling wax jackets, people are buying lots of wax jackets. It's that fine line between country gent and farage. You have to get it right. If it's worn too much, you either swing to the right or the left, and you all have what's um what's driven the rise of the um wax jacket?

Nick 14:33

Is it rivals?

Matt Love 14:35

Probably, yeah, I reckon rivals and the cold, yeah, and the fact that it's brightly and seeing it's in the country. Lots of dog walkers, not doggers. Dog walkers. Yeah, there's a lot of dog walkers, isn't it?

Nick 14:48

It's difficult doggy red now because the lighthouses will be quite distracting.

Matt Love 14:51

Yes.

Nick 14:51

They're sending the wrong signals, aren't they?

Matt Love 14:54

See that big flashing light over there? Head to the flashing. They're up for it. We haven't got lumps.

Nick 15:05

What else is selling that?

Matt Love 15:06

What else is selling selling so you've got wax jackets, we've got records. Lots of records.

Nick 15:11

I liked you had you had a kitten tapestry the other day.

Matt Love 15:14

You've still got the kitten, it's a picture with it's kittens but with flock on it as well. Yeah, that one is that kitten tapestry. That's amazing.

Nick 15:21

There's not no one bought it.

Matt Love 15:22

No, it's still there.

Sangita 15:23

It's got your name on it, eh? Yeah, it has, yeah.

Matt Love 15:26

Is that as well? That picture in France. That was me and Holly in the summer. And me and the wife can't go anywhere without having to buy something. Like I'm circled hours this morning in a charity shop, snip the labels off, walk to the other end of the high street. I'll leave I'll leave it for a day before I put it in the shop.

Nick 15:42

Really?

Matt Love 15:42

Yeah.

Nick 15:43

So you're doing that, you're rooting through the charity shop. But I think what's good is you you've got the eye, so you know you know what people are gonna want. So I think this is what's cool about Matt. You used to do um a lot of sportswear, right? And the um was it the bearded gypsy yeah, was it called the bearded gypsy? What is that all about?

Matt Love 15:59

The bearded gypsy market, yeah. It was Tilly, she she set up a pop-up shop in town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she did all them.

Nick 16:07

And and you used to have your stall there, but yeah, basically what you'd done was go to the boot sales, yeah, buy sports gear. Yeah, so you've got to root around, there's like diamonds in the rough, you know. You've got to root through people's stuff and say that that jacket is wicked.

Matt Love 16:19

Yeah.

Nick 16:20

And you bring it all together and you've got your brand there and you're selling it.

Matt Love 16:23

I used to sit up outside HM and all the staff on their brake would come to me. Yeah. So and that was that was good.

Nick 16:30

But I think that's like, you know, that's a real heart to be able to be able to look through clothes and and and just say that's the one.

Matt Love 16:36

So I find now if you've got a boot sale now, it's full of everyone now as a reseller. Yeah. It's full of young kids with their IKEA bags running around. I used to go to the boot sales early and I've given up now because it's full of them kids running around and they just pick up all the obvious stuff. Yeah, yeah. So I find it now, it's like I'm and I'm not the bottom food in that one.

Nick 16:55

So what are they doing? The kids are picking up all the obvious stuff, right? All the obvious stuff. All the stussy stuff and um sports teams, sport and then what are they wearing there?

Matt Love 17:02

The culture zips. Oh, yeah, yeah. Rishi Sunak, the Rishi Sunak quarter zips. Yeah, yeah. Finance bro look, yeah, yeah, yeah. With the Gila. Yeah, they're grabbing that, but they're missing all the good stuff. Yeah, but even like Army Surplus stuff, they don't buy it. It's actually stussy, you'll find a good bit of stussy knocking around they've missed or something.

Nick 17:19

Yeah. The army surplus stuff sometimes is quite difficult to see, isn't it? Like if it's on the floor.

Matt Love 17:25

I'm just gonna get my coat that time already. Oh shit.

Nick 17:31

And yeah, because there's a massive market as well for like retro football shirts and things like that as well, isn't it?

Matt Love 17:36

I've sort of we've done I've done football shirts, but now you just can't pick them up for a good price.

Nick 17:41

No, because everyone knows that.

Matt Love 17:42

Everyone knows, and everyone wants them, yeah. And we and we sold all the ones we got them. One thing we always do, we don't do do silly prices. I try and sell things at what I'd want to buy. At the end of the day, is if you've just got a shop full of good stuff, it's been it's just waving, you know what I mean? It's just look at me, I've got all this stuff and I want everything to go, so we have our prices. People come and go, Oh, that's cheap. And if we're cheap enough that people could come in, buy it off us, and then flip it somewhere else. Someone's always got someone else. Like we sometimes we go and do pop-ups and peck them and that, and there there's a go, you'll see putting their stylists go around, and obviously they'll buy it for other things, so there's always someone else up the chain, but we don't spend a lot, you know what I mean. I'll drive like and as well, we don't do bowels. A lot of like three love shops, they'll buy a bale, they'll buy like a ton of Ralph or something. Really? And then just dig through it, and then they'll just do that. And so you go into the shop and they're like, they've got all the car hot jeans, but they've just bought it now. Yeah, whereas we that's the one thing we don't do. You're hand curated, every item's like hand curated. Yeah, every item is a lot of times. Me and my wife have bought it and then realise we didn't want it ourselves. Yeah, because she's as bad at consuming as me.

Nick 18:49

You're you're you're basically buying for yourself.

Matt Love 18:51

Well, not anymore.

Nick 18:52

I try not to, but what size are you basically? So people know to come in?

Matt Love 18:56

Uh lots of large, lots of large larger. Yeah, and yeah, so it is. Um I try not to buy as much for me now, but I sort of we've got a we've got a real mixture. I mean, our clientele was from about seven to about ninety. Oh wow. We had a guy come in the guy, no, in fact, he didn't come in, he just drove past the other day on his mobility scooter, yeah, just shouted in the window, Oh, you got in double XL. Laura went this fleece, you went, I'll take it. Didn't he move then? Couldn't cut, yeah.

Nick 19:25

And we get around Brightonsea, actually. Um, you've probably got a population that's aging out, right?

Matt Love 19:31

No, you've got lots of people moving out from London now and couldn't because they can't afford to go to Within Ho.

Nick 19:37

Yeah.

Matt Love 19:37

So they couldn't raise it. So is Bright Brighton Sea's getting cool. Brightland Sea is cool. Have you not seen the good love?

Nick 19:43

Yeah, I know. We be are you spearheading the call?

Matt Love 19:45

Yeah. Are you gonna make Brighton Sea cool? Brightly Brightland Sea is got it's the highest street is good because they've got there is a greengrocer's there. There's a baker, there's a baker's that you can buy the most amazing curries in. I don't eat myself, they do cheeseburger and a paint in pastry. Yeah? Oh, yeah. They do the most amazing, it's old school. You get cheese and onion rolls in certified and old cakes. It's like it's a butcher's, there's a great great greengrocer. Yeah, you've got like one of the.

Nick 20:08

So basically you're you're living in Postman Pat.

Matt Love 20:11

Yes, I am, I am. Well, not living, I'm we're still in Cheltsford. Oh yeah.

Nick 20:16

Okay, you've got your shop in Postman Pat.

Matt Love 20:18

Yes, yeah. That's it. In an ideal world, we'd be in Brightonsea, but our kids don't want to go there.

Nick 20:24

That sounds cool though. It's like um, you know, all of these places that start like Margate as well, you know, and um but I'm sorry, what's that what's that posh place with the pier?

Matt Love 20:32

Clacton.

Nick 20:34

No in Suffolk, in Suffolk. But you know, all of these all of these places on the coast people move to, and artists are starting to move in and make them crazy.

Matt Love 20:45

Well, there's so many musicians in Brightonsea. Yeah, Brighton Sea, they have a music festival every year, a massive one, and it is one of the most creative places ever. And as well, the only change you've got there, you've got little Tesco's and you've got a boots, everything else is independent there.

Nick 21:00

And um so so you've started your shop now, and it's almost become a bit of a hub for like a lot of these people to come into.

Matt Love 21:07

Yeah, we've we've started having DJ a couple of weeks every Saturday. We're trying to have DJs now. Why you've been getting a license there, so you can come on a Saturday have a beer. We're just getting a coffee machine put in. So it is, it's it's more of a hub than a shop.

Sangita 21:19

It's gonna be like a nice community space.

Matt Love 21:21

The idea, yeah. We sort of we're gonna want to do live events, so we're looking for like acoustic hacks or like MCs and that, get them in. So I've listened to that podcast with the chap Lando.

Nick 21:31

Project Lando, yeah, Heart of the Roads. What a legend. Big up Owen.

Matt Love 21:34

Yeah, that was good though. I love that guy. Yeah, if I didn't know that.

Nick 21:37

I love everyone that comes on our podcast, though. We've never ever had a bad guest until now.

Matt Love 21:43

There's always a person. Do you remember that one you got cancelled this year?

Nick 21:49

So, Matt, what you're saying is you're you're across between Fagan and Arkwright at the moment.

Matt Love 21:57

Bringing together anti Semitic stereotypes. We won't go with Fagan.

Nick 22:00

Oh, yeah, sure.

Matt Love 22:01

Yeah, look, yeah. Is he really? He is, isn't he? Look.

Nick 22:04

I don't know.

Matt Love 22:05

He is, yeah.

Nick 22:06

So what you're saying, you're across between John Peel and um not John Peel, not today.

Matt Love 22:12

Not John Peel. In fact, the other day, someone did bring in some records and they left them, looked for the bag, and there was there was a Radio One album, and I opened it up, and the first tune on there was Gary Glitter. Oh no. And inside a big picture of Jimmy Savile and Dave Lee Travis. Oh my god.

Nick 22:28

Did the record just set on fire? It's just spontaneously can bust.

Matt Love 22:31

They just they just snap. I just snap them. Them, PDD, R. Kelly, them records just snap in the blade.

Nick 22:39

You should have a wall with a bin under it saying just frisbee them at the wall, smash into the bin.

Matt Love 22:45

No, that's right. No, can't go down that route.

Nick 22:47

Love it. You can you can make plant pots out of them.

Matt Love 22:51

Did you plant pot? Even that'd be that would be illegal, wouldn't it?

Nick 22:59

Yeah, a spittoon. Make some vinyl spittoons. So Matt, what's selling?

Matt Love 23:17

Yeah.

Nick 23:17

What are you selling?

Matt Love 23:20

Bits. Well not so we go through what we sold yesterday. A frog pencil sharpener.

Nick 23:25

Yeah, nice. What just for frogs pencils, really little pencils.

Matt Love 23:32

You can't see that with me raising two middle fingers at me. Yeah. No, a small wooden pencil sharpener that looked like Gwendolyn from Bagfus. Oh yeah, nice. A full set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle badges. Oh funny enough. Full set. I've bought you two set, yeah. I've bought you two both a little present.

Sangita 23:51

Oh here we go. We're gonna get some. This is my favourite bit.

Nick 23:57

Lisa pre-given presents, you see.

Matt Love 24:00

Look, not even Christmas. Matt's left or right hand. Better do. Which hand? I'm gonna have left hand, please. So go to said left. Okay, go on. Don't open yet, Nick.

Nick 24:12

Yeah, thank you. Give me my present here. Matt's reaching over.

Matt Love 24:16

I got my eyes shut.

Nick 24:17

I think mine is gonna be Donna. I think it's gonna be Donatello, because that was my favourite badge.

Matt Love 24:21

No, if you open them up and have a look, we've got.

Nick 24:24

Yes, I've got a Shaking Stevens badge.

Sangita 24:26

Oh, I've got Barbara Dixon.

Nick 24:28

Is this um Matt? At least OG, at least pre-loved badges.

Matt Love 24:34

Barbara Dixon, Shaking Stevens. What more do you want? Oh, that's amazing.

Nick 24:37

I would say this is exactly what I expect in Brightoning Sea.

Matt Love 24:40

There you are, yeah. In one of your shops.

Nick 24:42

And why I was asking you about the um the population aging out. Wolf fleeces.

Matt Love 24:48

No, there's not.

Nick 24:49

They're actually do you never get any wolf fleeces?

Matt Love 24:51

No, it's that do you know what's well? You don't see people wearing wolf fleeces either.

Nick 24:55

You get a lot in Clacton.

Matt Love 24:56

Yeah, exactly. Well, Clacton's uh It's not Brighton and Sea, is it? It's a bit different, isn't it? No wolf fleeces in Brighton Sea. That's not disappointing. It's it's quite well dressed, people in Brighton Sea. People make an effort. Whereas obviously Clacton is more of a fleece is What are you saying?

Nick 25:11

That a wolf fleece is effort. That is not mate, that's a complicated pattern. It's not easy to make.

Matt Love 25:16

Well, it's people in collacton knitting their own wolf fleece. Farage is whipping them.

Nick 25:22

Oh man.

Matt Love 25:24

Oh dear. Shall I tell you how you go on? Tell me what? How the good love started.

Nick 25:35

What?

Matt Love 25:35

Yeah. How the actual good stuff started. It's a collaboration between me and my wife.

Nick 25:39

Yeah, the or the orange's story.

Matt Love 25:41

Yeah, because obviously I'm Matt Love and she's love Bid Good. Oh. But when we first when we first met, we we had a we we both used to sell on vintage. Yeah. And we had we had gave ourselves a challenge. Who can make the most in a month?

Nick 25:53

No way. Was this part of your courtship?

Matt Love 25:55

This was part of our courtship. Really? You said that. Did you set that or she percent that? And I think at the end of it, I think between us we made just under two grand in a month. No way.

Nick 26:06

And so we was like This is like bargain hunt, but but also um blind date at the same time.

Matt Love 26:11

Exactly. And then through that, we it was this time last year, we we were gonna do a little market somewhere in Leon C. Yeah. Then we thought of a name, and then Laura knocked up that logo. So we become a big good, I think it was a year ago, yeah. And then through them, we were just doing markets, and then a friend approached us about this. Should have been a question you should have asked me, but I'll ask myself.

Nick 26:30

What?

Matt Love 26:31

Yeah.

Nick 26:32

So when you were doing when you're doing your your challenge, what were you selling to make two grand?

Matt Love 26:37

That's that's how much excess clothes we had. That's like we always had stock.

Nick 26:41

This is it. You were already nesting, you were thinking I'm gonna clear out some space because me and Laura we're destined to be together.

Matt Love 26:47

Well, I've always bought too much, I can't do it. And I that's why I like buying second hand now, because it's it's too new stuff, I just don't do it.

Nick 26:55

It's quite environmentally friendly, isn't it? Against fast fashion.

Matt Love 26:59

Circular fashion, I think it's very that's why we don't go with the term vintage, we go pre-loved. Yeah, yeah. Second hand, people go, oh, because I mean five years ago, people wouldn't have worn anything secondhand. Now people do because it's it's cheaper. Yeah, you go out to a charity shop and they're charging Primarch stuff more expensive than Primark. That's mad, isn't it?

Nick 27:20

Yeah, I think I think like all you know, websites like vintage and stuff though, have normalized it a lot more for especially younger generations, yeah.

Matt Love 27:26

Yeah, because it's that young kids before wouldn't. And we have loads of kids who are like 14, they come in now, they see what they want to buy, and they go car washing.

Nick 27:34

Yeah, and they come back later on.

Matt Love 27:36

And it's funny, recently every now and again we'll put out on our page, we'll put like a little code. Yeah, and I think the code, what was the code? It was turning up the nights are drawing in. There's like a young boy walks up to he's like, The nights are drawing in. Wink as he pays, yeah, and to get his 10% off. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, so we just do things like that. I love that. Do they cut to eight?

Nick 27:56

And do they come in and say, Can you can you hold on to that? Keeping that one accounts for me. Yeah, the nights drawing in, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, special handshake.

Matt Love 28:02

Yeah, we get and then people turn up, they'll say, Can you put that back? I'll be back tomorrow. Yeah, like, do they had a few people? Well, that's why we had about the first week was open, his granddad came with his kids, and we had these little, they were like stressful, smiley face ones, yeah. And his his grandkids weren't so he's like, I've got no money on me. And I was like, Take him, but he's like, I'll drop the money in tomorrow.

Nick 28:23

Yeah, will he?

Matt Love 28:24

That was August. And I just think, you know what I mean?

Nick 28:28

It's just it's just he's probably forgotten though, to be honest.

Matt Love 28:33

No, that's it's not very nice, is it? Is it pure like buttons Karma will get him? Exactly, yeah. Perhaps he fell off the marinous thing. Big wave like this afternoon, yeah. Like, what's his name in neighbours? Harold. Harold Bishop.

Nick 28:48

Oh bless him, yeah. Right, let's go back to the orange and orange stories.

Matt Love 28:54

Oh, the orange and blue, the reason as well it's orange and blue, I'll touch up on that. That because that is the colour of my front room. I've got an orange sofa. Yeah, in fact, it's the exact orange and blue just behind your head there. That's good for the listeners. That's for good for the listeners. Yeah, well, if you if you look at our page, the good love presents on Instagram, you can see the orange and blue because there's lots of orange and blue on there.

Nick 29:16

Your your wife, Laura, yes, she got married in orange and blue as well, didn't she?

Matt Love 29:21

So did I.

Nick 29:21

Yeah, yeah. She had a really cool Adidas, she had a really cool Adidas like jumpsuit on the bottom. Yeah, yeah. It looked, you know, you know, when you look at people's wedding photos and you're like, that looks so much better than people that get married in traditional wedding stuff. Apart from the Lucy Garantance, obviously her stuff looks amazing.

Matt Love 29:38

Yeah, so that's thing. Yeah, oh, our wedding, we all all dressed. Son was Isaac was the best man, he was an orange and blue, yeah, Sun Herbie, orange and blue, Coco. I think she was an orange and blue, yeah. And then we got mad men of reception at Moto Pizza. That's a place to have a wedding reception there. Moto Pizza.

Nick 29:56

What's that bottomless pizza?

Matt Love 29:58

Bottomless pizza, that's what you do for a wedding reception, yeah. Nice. Wow, wicked.

Nick 30:02

So come on, let's we're going through the timeline now, Matt.

Matt Love 30:05

Yeah, sorry, back up.

Nick 30:06

So right, so you've done so you've done your sales, you've done right you you started out, you've been doing discogs, you've done the bearded gypsies, then then you've met Laura. Yeah. Fallen in falling in love over this sales challenge.

Matt Love 30:17

Yeah, fallen in love, got married after six months, yeah. Met last June, got married 23rd of December. And then what happened? We done we did two markets in between then. We did one in Lee.

Nick 30:28

Yeah.

Matt Love 30:28

And that was where you got the sign done for that. We thought, let's do it, let's just we both love it.

Nick 30:32

Well, you got a good love sign done.

Matt Love 30:35

It's a thing! It's a thing. So we did it, we did that, and then we did Peckham Christmas car boot last year. Uh Levels, I think it's called in Peckham. That big multi-story car park. Yeah, we did that. And then we just thought we're gonna do some more places. And I spoke to Roots and Groove in Colchester, Baz there, and I said, Any chance we could do a pop up there? Yeah, he's a lovely guy, Baz. Takes a lot of time to get back to you, he's very busy. And after a while, he phoned me up one day and said, Oh Matt, we've got like a vintage room upstairs. Yeah, the person who does it, I think it's Rosie's room, she's a local does what stuff around here. And she was and he was like, She's moving out. Do you want to take the room? So we thought, yeah, we'll give it a go. We put stuff in, and it is quite literally a room. Yeah, so it's my love is his destiny, it's destiny, yeah. So it went from that, and after a few months, he was like, Well, I've got this shop in Brightonsea that hasn't been open for a year. Yeah. Do you want to like maybe go in on that? So we went down there and just like it's an old chemist that's just on the corner of the road you have to walk down to the marina in Brightonsea. And it's a lovely looking shop. So we we took that and that was August 1st. Then we took it over completely just now, November the 1st.

Nick 31:42

This sound this this sounds like a little romance film, doesn't it? It feels good. I think like if if they make a film of this, Hugh Grant's gonna play Matt.

Matt Love 31:53

They're gonna have their little type of accent, haven't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nick 31:57

They're gonna have their cute little corner shot there. Have you got a little bell that rings when people open the door?

Matt Love 32:03

We're looking to get one at the moment. If anyone's got a little bell, obviously this will come out tomorrow, so they'll contact the family.

Nick 32:10

Yeah, someone's gonna come into you say, I don't know what I've just had this little bell in my inner shed. I I love that so much. So Hugh Grant's gonna play you, and uh, what's it gonna be? It's just gonna be called The Good Love.

Matt Love 32:21

Yeah, the good love.

Nick 32:22

The good love. That's a great name.

Matt Love 32:23

The good love is, yes. And then we just like we've had first couple of DJs this weekend. Fred Well, one of our customers, in fact, she comes in. You you know her as Mel. You met her, Georgia, who works at the art centre.

Nick 32:37

She was on stage dancing dressed as a shock with my band.

Matt Love 32:40

Yes, she was, yeah. She was DJing the shop on Saturday, yeah. And I'm afraid of Abby T. I'd never really DJ'd out much, so we sort of try to get people who haven't really DJ'd and give them a full supply. Yeah, just come and I love that. So there's no the thing is DJing the shop on a Saturday afternoon. Yeah, there's no pressure, yeah. That's not HM on Oxford Street, is it? But even then, it's it's still if you're not making people dance when you're DJ, there's no pressure to it. You can do what you want.

Nick 33:05

And also, there's an expert DJ in the shop.

Matt Love 33:07

Mm-hmm.

Nick 33:09

Matt Love.

Matt Love 33:09

Oh me, yes, yeah.

Nick 33:10

Yeah. And um yeah, you can give them some little tips on the selection. So can they can they pull stuff off the shelves to DJ?

Matt Love 33:17

Yes, yeah, they can. Uh yeah, that's at the moment I've they bought their controlling, so I've planned digital, but I've got a small pair of decks in there, and um next I've started booking people for next year because the idea is to hopefully every weekend to have a DJ. Yeah, so if someone wants to DJ, how can I how can I get on contact us through the Good Love Presents on Instagram?

Nick 33:35

Yeah, you want do you want any Ragger embashment?

Matt Love 33:38

We can have Raggle, yeah, we do Ragger Bash, we do anything. Yeah, been reason. Yeah, I don't know what the reason is. Yeah, to be honest, I've say we've been reasoning. If you're gonna bring lots of friends along who are gonna buy lots of stuff, you like but the but the vibe is just sort of nice, chilled. It's quite funny. There's a a Facebook group in Brightonsea called Spotted in Brightonsea, and it's a mate. If you put on there, people come on, they're all nice, and I've I'll just have to read it out. There's been no negative comments until there was one. It was very funny.

Nick 34:13

It was go go the the the shopkeeper will not stop talking. I was trying to go to work, I didn't end up there till Friday. There was no what no, what the only way you can get me to stop talking is to buy something.

Matt Love 34:26

Oh, what are you saying?

Nick 34:27

Or put a microphone in my face.

Matt Love 34:30

Anyway, it's one of them things we'd put there with DJs, and he's like, hmm, loud music, I'm not shopping there. Oh, it's like then a couple of my friends who don't live around all this sort of like, well, don't go in there then. So weird. So much negative, you know what I mean? All that negativity, yeah.

Nick 34:46

Mate, mate, jog on to Brenton.

Matt Love 34:48

Yeah. If you want a quiet life, we're here, we're here, we're brightly sea, we're we're making a scene. That's funny, but everyone else there is the nicest. People just come in and just people walk past say hello, we always have dog biscuits. Yeah, I've only been bitten by one dog so far. Someone come up.

Nick 35:05

Your fingers, your fingers do look like dog biscuits, I've got to say.

Matt Love 35:08

It was one then one. What should the whole dog's find? He's nipped me. There's another dog, there's a man, he's quite embarrassed. His dog's called Benji, and every day he walks past, Benji stops for a biscuit. And now I've noticed I've noticed now that his owner goes to the other side of the road. What is it? Greedy dog. Yeah, he's so embarrassed that the dog comes in.

Nick 35:28

Before long, you're gonna have Benji working in the shop. Yeah, I do biscuit an hour. It's not that much, don't pay that much.

Matt Love 35:37

Biscuit a day. You're gonna get your alcohol licence and then you're hoping for it to yeah, hopefully, we just want it to be a venue, really, like uh idea, like a like an early hours thing. Yeah, so we finish on a Saturday at six o'clock, yeah. Come in, have a couple of beers, then go on. Yeah, that thing, and there's a couple of nice restaurants in town. Yeah, but we're we're thinking maybe like hooking up with some pubs, maybe like carrying on DJing afterwards. Yes, that type of thing. But yeah, it's really at the same time. It reminds me of my bedroom when I was younger. Yeah, there's no one in the corner smoking a spoon. Apart from that, yeah, it's that thing of all you mates all you make is coming around your house playing. I just expect like my dear old mum shutting out you turn the music down. So I think we're going off that tangent. I think then to when I was younger, yeah, and I'd have music blurring. I used to be in the box room, I'd have ten people round. Yeah, we'd all be smoking a space. Spray a bit of Lynx Africa afterwards, it'll be alright. No, we won't. Were that then, was it? It was Lynx, it wasn't Africa. It wasn't gonna say it wasn't Africa, then I think about that now, the smell and the noise, because it would have just been like Public Academy NWA, yeah, yeah. Blairing out and a nice little street.

Sangita 36:50

Little doobie.

Matt Love 36:50

Yeah, I love that. It's great. That's yeah.

Sangita 36:53

That's a good memory lane.

Matt Love 36:56

I love it. Yeah.

Nick 37:01

My my friend, my antique dealer friend Neville, used to say first profit's best profit. He used to say, Don't don't hang on to something thinking about the maximum price you can get. Or if you're making a profit, brilliant, sell it. Just keep keep things moving, don't let things sit around for too long.

Matt Love 37:16

Yeah, all profit is good profit. If you sold it and you can, yeah, just do that. Someone makes me an offer, as long as it's not a stupid offer, yeah. Because I just always work on a percentage. I think if I buy it for that and I sell it, double, it's 100% profit.

Nick 37:30

And it's good for people seeing like seeing your stock rotating in the shop as well.

Matt Love 37:33

So that's what we always do. We always change the window because we're on a corner as well. Yeah, like closing the main window, down the side is like your bag push trinkets.

Nick 37:40

I love I right. I love Matt Matt came. Matt came in and is telling me about his window the other day. We were at the skate park. Your eyes went all like glass. You'd found your thing. Yeah. Tell us about your windows, your ever-changing window display.

Matt Love 37:52

Well, it's just everything interesting we get. We always and people, because we're we're only open Wednesday to Saturday. So the other time people will come past and they'll they'll not come. What we I'll do as well, if I'll leave it like that for the weekend, when we come in, I'll take it out the window sometimes, and people will panic. Yeah. And they'll come in like, have you sold that jacket? No, and they'll come and buy it. Yeah. I love it. The other week, as it goes, the other week, this girl came running in the shop and grabbed. I had this really lovely leather New York jacket in the window, and she ran in and grabbed it. And she was just like, That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. And she was like, I've been clean for six weeks. I'm just gonna treat myself. Brilliant. Such a nice thing. Ends up just giving her a massive dis after she showed us a picture of what it was like six weeks before. Oh wow, that's a mess. Oh bless her. But I thought she was just stealing it because she literally ran in and grabbed it. Because the thing with Brightonsea is you don't get touched with any theft. And I've asked people why and they've said, because there's no train station. Oh yeah? There isn't, there's no train station there. Because there obviously in Brightonsea, you'd have to get the train to Wyvernho, yeah, and then get a bus. Oh, okay. To be honest, if you're at Longfirst Eve, isn't it?

Nick 39:11

So county line, county lines haven't got to Brighton Sea because it's a it's a bit of a faff.

Matt Love 39:14

It stops at Wyvernho, yeah. You wouldn't be bothered, would you?

Nick 39:18

And the buses, the buses are like I'm not getting a bus. I'm not getting the buses.

Matt Love 39:22

The other day a friend of mine was met a DJ. Yeah, he lives in Wyffenhoe and he couldn't. It was a Saturday and they'd cancelled all buses. It's that type of place. It's quite nice, you know what I mean? I can't get out, yeah. There's no buses. But it's what I like as well, but it's one road in, one road out.

Nick 39:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mate, you're gonna be the mayor of Brightlingssea before long. I'm not the mayor, yeah. It's gonna have like a it's gonna have a sign, it's gonna say Brightlingse Emperor created the god, yeah, the deity of Brightlingsea. You have a sign on the way in population, X amount of people, mayor, Matt Love. That's got a good name to it as well, isn't it? Matt Love. Matt Love, yes, it's not a real name.

Matt Love 39:59

It is a real name.

Nick 40:00

You made it up.

Matt Love 40:01

I didn't know. If you look at my bank card, my name is Matt Love.

Sangita 40:04

I was gonna say, there is a DJ called Matt Love as well, isn't it? That's me. That's him is it? Yeah.

Nick 40:10

It's DJ Matt Love.

Sangita 40:12

Yeah.

Nick 40:13

Oh what? Who do you think Matt Love the DJ was?

Sangita 40:17

I thought there was another guy called Matt Love who's a DJ.

Matt Love 40:21

And that was me. We met about a year and a half ago. What's it called? What was the thing?

Nick 40:28

Beats and beats and grooves and beats. Oh yeah.

Sangita 40:31

That was you! No, yeah. Oh my god, Penny just dropped. Yeah.

Nick 40:36

What? Can you not remember him?

Sangita 40:38

No, I didn't remember him. Do you know what's weird? Do you know what was really weird?

Nick 40:41

So I was going through, like I met Matt. Um I met Matt through the most random. That's a good story. I have a friend in Australia who draws um hip-hop characters like in a really nice stylish way. And he did a hip-hop colouring book. And my kid coloured in one of the one of the people, Riff Raff, a rapper that I really like. And um my friend in Australia posted it and said, Oh, look, T Go from Chelmsford is coloured in Riff Raff. And then Matt replied and he said, What? A five-year-old in Chelmsford is coloured in Riff Raph. I've got I've got I've got to meet this, I've got to meet this family. Oh because he had a kid the same age. So me and Matt made friends via Australia, which was crazy. But then what was weirder? We hung out for a while. Then I think I found an old flyer for a night that I'd gone to, and it had Matt's name on it. So I I'd actually been seeing Matt DJ about 20 years before we met.

Matt Love 41:35

Well, and I found out the other day that you used to live two doors along from my wife in Reading.

Nick 41:39

Yeah.

Matt Love 41:40

Yeah.

Nick 41:40

Wow. Destiny. So you've got to me and Matt were destiny. Destiny's together. It's madness, isn't it? But yes, so it's really it's it's so nice to like think, oh, I had a really good night out 20 years ago to Matt DJing.

Sangita 41:54

Oh wow.

Matt Love 41:56

Probably last night did a good gig, I reckon. Yeah, a catch. Yeah.

Nick 42:00

In Shoreditch. Classic.

Matt Love 42:01

That that catch is one of the best gigs I've ever done. If it had been that one, that night, because that was night I played seven 45 Z and no one was doing it. I remember that night, and it was and do you know what as well?

Nick 42:13

Amy Winehouse would be playing Paul downstairs.

Matt Love 42:16

Yeah, at the man's office.

Nick 42:17

Which is which catch used to be such a good vibe.

Matt Love 42:19

Yeah.

Nick 42:23

I want to talk about buying stock.

Matt Love 42:24

Yeah.

Nick 42:25

Because actually, what's really interesting, you know, because like you say, you used to like go to boot sales, buy stuff there. Recently you said you went over to France and you went to this massive vintage warehouse there. Yeah. And you said it was incredible.

Matt Love 42:36

It was a charity shop. Yeah. It was this charity shop. We went in there and it was this like a big warehouse and it was amazing. There was loads of stuff. Then my son just comes running along. He's like, Dad, you've got to come upstairs. And I was like, What? There's an upstairs. And we go up we go upstairs and there's all this tax therma. And he's like, Dad, yeah.

Nick 42:55

What do you want?

Matt Love 42:56

He wanted to buy like a on a high end of dad. It was like a partridge. Yeah. With the full, I'm gonna do my arms extended, so I've got quite a lot. It's about 14 foot long. Oh wow, he wanted to bring that back from France, and it was about 20 euros. Obviously, you couldn't get it.

Nick 43:09

But there was so much that's where it's not very aerodynamic on the roof rack, is it?

Matt Love 43:12

No, it's not. That's why I've got the Volvo now to go back and get stuff.

Nick 43:15

Oh, so you can get partridges on the boxes, yeah.

Matt Love 43:17

But there was that's where the the the kitten picture come from. Yeah. Some of the tapestry. Yeah, it was great there. It was just it was ginormous this charity shop just yeah in France, but it was packed, there was loads of people in there.

Nick 43:29

What's what's great about European ones? Because in Holland they've got the same one, they've got massive warehouses you can go to as well. Because people have been into different stuff, yeah, and people want to buy different stuff. A lot of the stuff that would be fashionable here, or people be into here, people aren't into in in in France.

Matt Love 43:43

No, I was we went into a little vintage shop in one of the towns, and everything they wanted to buy was sort of stuff that we didn't want anymore. Yeah. So we ended up buying loads of I think we bought some Peugeot t shirts, like 1980s ones, which Laura just kept in the end. But they was just they all just wanted like barbers and you know, like More to be to display.

Nick 44:02

And you can get really cool, really cool scarves and stuff, neck scarves in France, can't you?

Matt Love 44:06

Yeah, they love a neck scarf, don't they?

Nick 44:08

Yeah, and a retro ski gear.

Matt Love 44:09

I do like retro scarves. I've always wanted to buy some skis, nowhere to put them. You know they're nice wooden skis. You have to turn your house into a ski lodge, didn't you?

Nick 44:19

Yeah, I'm I'm supposed you haven't got skis in your shop now.

Matt Love 44:21

I've been I've been looking for them. I haven't found the right ones.

Nick 44:24

What's in your for your winter display?

Matt Love 44:26

The winter display, it's his boxes. What have you got in the window?

Nick 44:29

There's a lot of blankets. Partridge with a mitten on it.

Matt Love 44:32

No, no parts of your mitten. But I've got some interesting stuff to have my father in law. I've got a vintage salmon fishing rod, which is quite cool. Some weird odd things. He just because I live out in the country and he sort of just went through the shirt and put like a windy hat like Windy Miller.

Nick 44:48

Yeah.

Matt Love 44:48

That type of hat.

Nick 44:49

Amazing.

Matt Love 44:50

And his friend just passed around. He put along this thing he gave us. It's a cutout that he's cut out of an electric guitar. It's the shape of it and painted.

Nick 44:57

What?

Matt Love 44:58

I know it's just a random thing.

Nick 44:59

He's just what? Just wood cut into the shape of an electric guitar.

Matt Love 45:03

And it's just I don't know, people do things.

Nick 45:05

Well but what what they thought there's value in it.

Matt Love 45:07

No, no, it's just to give us to put into the shop. Yeah. No, just to have some things like we've got to put it on the phone. Oh, just put on the wall. Yeah. That thanks. It was and it was that thing, it was like, yeah, thanks. I like the blue, yeah.

Nick 45:19

Mate, mate, put put it in the window. You never know what's gonna happen.

Matt Love 45:22

There's a magic window. But we've got in the window, there's one thing we've got in the shop. I've got a little Snoopy about that pig. And that must be everyone wants to buy that. And that's the one thing. Nine nine inches.

Nick 45:32

Yeah. I think I think you're I think your window might be magic though. You're you're manifesting customers. Yeah. So anything you put in there, someone will turn up.

Matt Love 45:39

Ideally. Yeah. That's it. So max buyer growth albums, hopefully, tomorrow. We might have to pay for albums, we've got tons of them. Or ballast for their boats.

Nick 45:49

Yeah. Oh yeah, maybe. Or plant pots.

Matt Love 45:52

Plant pots, yeah. Might stop doing plant pots. Piss pots. Piss pots. I'll kelly piss pots.

Nick 45:57

So um as well, like where's where's good for picking up vintage in like the UK? Like, so you don't have to go to places. Yeah.

Matt Love 46:06

Yeah.

Nick 46:07

Oh, Matt is not telling his secrets.

Matt Love 46:09

No, you've got to gatekeep something, haven't you?

Nick 46:11

Yeah, so Matt is not going to tell us where his supply comes from. Go to his shop.

Matt Love 46:16

Yeah, exactly. Come and buy for me. That's true. Buy it for me, sell it for more somewhere else.

Nick 46:22

You should put that above the door.

Matt Love 46:24

Yeah, keenest price. Who is it? Keenest prices. Was that Sainsbury's, I think. One of the city used to have that as their logo. What? Keenest Prices. Keenest Prices. Keenest prices. Never knowing prices, neither.

Nick 46:35

Never knowingly undersold. You could have um always knowingly resold.

Matt Love 46:39

Three love modern classics. Yeah. That is our hashtag now. That's what we try and push for. Is because we don't do vintage when people say vintage and they've got like nice sort of knitted dresses. Yeah. That's not us. We're more a nice t-shirt. And most of our clothes with unisex. Yeah. We go for unisex because everyone we have a small section that is for women or anyone, obviously. Yeah. But on the whole, we're we're all inclusive. But on the whole, most of the stuff is unisex. Unisex. Yeah. Yeah, that's it, yeah. It is. Because everyone, most people nowadays wear baggy clothes. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, people want baggy jeans, baggy this, but then people come in sometimes and want something specific.

Nick 47:19

Baggy wax baggy wax cotton.

Matt Love 47:21

Yep. Baggy wax cotton. Yeah.

Nick 47:23

Do you have any dungarees? I really want to. I really want to try some dungarees.

Matt Love 47:27

I've got so many pairs of dungarees I've bought and I've put on, and I've put them on, and the kids and the wife have looked at me and said, put them in the shop. So they'll never let you keep up. No, I've got one pair I've got now, pair cart I've kept. But the problem is I've got a very long body, very short legs. So the problem is, you've got the same problem, Adam. So the problem is when you get dungarees on, it gives you a right wedgie up the ass. Yeah. Because I have, I it is. My body is my leg, so I've got a 27-inch side leg. Yeah. And I'm six foot one. That's really short. That is really short, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's crazy. I've got dungarees.

Nick 48:03

Why'd you end up with such a long body?

Matt Love 48:05

I don't know. I think Pat's.

Nick 48:06

You're like a sausage dog.

Matt Love 48:07

Yeah, it's a sausage dog, yeah. I think I want to give you a gun.

Nick 48:10

Like a human sausage dog. If you want to see a human sausage dog in Dungarees, go to the good love present.

Matt Love 48:14

Well, I've got long arms. I haven't got arms like a dinosaur.

Nick 48:17

Like a little like a sausage dog with gorilla arms. Like a ragatang sausage dog.

Matt Love 48:23

I love it.

Nick 48:24

With a mustache.

Matt Love 48:24

That's a good name for a band.

Nick 48:26

A ragatang sausage dog.

Matt Love 48:27

Yeah.

Nick 48:27

Yeah, why not? I'll go and see that band. I'm always fascinated. Like setting up a shop seems like the bravest thing ever. Like, I wouldn't have a clue where to start or what how to work out how I'm going to pay my rent, how to price things, how to do as how do you do it? Do you just work out as you get along?

Matt Love 48:47

Yeah. I said that before. Before I come out law, my wife, she's like, So what are you gonna talk about? I was like, I'm just gonna talk about the fact that we're just winging it. Yeah. I've got no business plan, I've got no idea. I've got honestly, I've got no idea what I'm doing. But it's working though. But it's working, yeah.

Nick 49:01

When you started, you weren't like, oh my god, we've got to sell like 30 pairs of jeans a day to pay the rent.

Matt Love 49:05

Then we realised we didn't have to because we sell online as well, like selling on Discord, yeah. So that's quite good.

Nick 49:10

But yeah, hopefully so you're constantly taking the wheelbarrow down to the post office as well, are you?

Matt Love 49:14

Like things packaged up and the little shop there's a little the little news agents, yeah.

Nick 49:19

Mrs. Coggins, Mrs.

Matt Love 49:20

Coggins, right? Yeah, yes, it's yeah, no, I've no business plan, no idea what I'm doing at all, which is great. And luckily, you know, I mean the wife's like go on, enjoying yourself. Yeah, go for it.

Nick 49:33

So, your advice, I mean, this is brilliant advice. I have to go for it, yeah. Just go for it, make it up, make it up as you go along.

Matt Love 49:39

Sure, I've got a 53 now, and I've yeah, I've done jobs all my life. Yeah, I'm just about gonna leave my full-time job to do this, yeah, and it's like it's gonna work. If it doesn't work, there's something else to do.

Nick 49:52

And you sort of find that everyone in life is making up as they go along. Yeah, but you've just got to do it with confidence and a bit of swag.

Matt Love 49:59

It's like when you when you have kids for the first time, you think, what do I do? Yeah, how do I keep them alive? How do I keep them alive? How do I keep them alive? And then you realise you think, what do you do? And everyone else is like, Oh, well, it's got through. Yeah, no one does, you know. It's like then you get them people that'll say people say to you that yeah, my baby, yeah, they slept all the way through.

Nick 50:19

So so every every week is someone like being like, Oh, and now you've got a pay list rate or you've got to pay that tax, or you're like, What? Why didn't no one tell us about all this stuff?

Matt Love 50:27

Not at the moment.

Nick 50:27

No, it's all all good. That's coming. That's coming.

Matt Love 50:30

Yeah, let's get cut this bit out. Yeah, yeah.

Sangita 50:34

Let's not remind anyone. Yeah, yeah.

Nick 50:36

Yeah, and then you go to the company's house and you and you say you're bankrupt, then you start looking love presents.

Matt Love 50:42

Yeah, exactly. That's it. Presents, presents, yeah, preserves, preserves preserves, preserves, just put a jar of jam in the window.

Nick 50:49

That's the one, yeah. But no, I love it.

Matt Love 50:51

It's a learning curve, you know what I mean? Because it is that thing of what could what can go wrong? Nothing really.

Sangita 50:58

But the fact you're being creative and you're looking to open it up into like a coffee cafe and getting the DJs in, which will attract more people, more even younger generations, because the biggest thing, I guess, is being able to give that space out to other people. So I can't see it. I think it sounds like it's a very good asset for Brightlyn and C. Yeah. Because it sounds pretty dead up there.

Nick 51:22

It doesn't sound dead, it sounds wicked, but I think like Matt's just made it like ten times more wicked.

Sangita 51:27

Mind you, I'm just probably thinking of I'm doing a comparative with Clacton because it's the north side of the county. North side. But I've already heard, I've I've heard I've got I know people that live in Brightlyn, um, and they love it there, they would never move.

Matt Love 51:40

No, it's one of them places, it is just it's nice. I mean, I could, if I could, I'd like to live there. It'd save me having an hour's drive every day. The fact is, the worst bit as well is half of it is the windy roads getting in there. Yeah, so I'm dreading when it becomes winter. Yeah, there's a lot of people say I just get shut off. No, I mean the weather gets bad and you can't get in and out.

Nick 52:00

Oh, it's burn records, stay warm.

Sangita 52:03

Yeah, Bernard Kelly's records.

Matt Love 52:06

There you go. That's a way to finish the podcast. Bernard Kelly.

Nick 52:10

Yeah, so Matt, so Matt, your your big advice for anyone looking to start a shop, yeah, just go for it.

Matt Love 52:16

Just go for it.

Nick 52:17

What's the worst that can happen?

Matt Love 52:18

You just end up with a load of stuff you don't need.

Nick 52:22

So basically, you've just taken your house and put it in a shop.

Matt Love 52:25

Yes, that is seriously it. I've just taken everything that we had in the house, put it in the shop, and kept adding.

Nick 52:31

Brilliant. And it's been going well, so I'm really happy for you. And Laura as well. Yeah. Destiny, magic.

Matt Love 52:36

What a more couple.

Nick 52:41

Thank you for listening again. That was a really good episode. Oh, it was amazing. I want to start. I've always wanted to start a shop. I love playing shop. I just don't know what to have.

Matt Love 52:51

Come and play, come on one day, come and play. Can I guess come and play in the good luck?

Nick 52:57

I would love it, man. I'd love to smart. I love doing like the merch at gigs and selling stuff.

Matt Love 53:01

Yeah. Come on, come on, buy a mind.

Nick 53:03

Do you like playing shop? I haven't played shop. You said earlier kids. You said earlier on you loved playing bar. I did love playing bar. Yeah, like working behind the bar is got fun as well, right?

Sangita 53:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Matt Love 53:14

Well, let's let's do some type of event then.

Sangita 53:17

Let's do something. Oh look, we got Ragga Reinforcer in the house who's a DJ, and he provides the juices. This could work.

Nick 53:25

We say in that in the summer, you might have the good love might be spilling out a bit into the street, we could have a bit of a party.

Matt Love 53:30

Well, I think we can start in the shop and then go on. That's the idea of maybe somewhere else. Yeah.

Nick 53:36

Let's plan. Let's do that. All right, let's wrap up. Let's wrap up.

Matt Love 53:38

Let's wrap up.

Nick 53:40

Wicked, no. Sangita, thank you so much for coming and hanging out again this evening. Thank you, Nick. It's a pleasure, always. It's such a pleasure to listen to myself talking. Um, thank you very much to our guest Matt Love.

Matt Love 53:54

Thank you very much. Have you won the wall since you've been on there? Yes. Good, excellent.

Nick 53:59

Most handsomest man around this table.

Matt Love 54:02

Uh second post you've got there. It's still in the wall, isn't it?

Nick 54:08

Thank you to Adam Whitka in Law Comedy Studios for letting him use this amazing facility here. So much better in here than in a good love presents. And um thank you to the regular enforcers come free for vibes.

Matt Love 54:20

Yay!

Nick 54:24

Matt Love, have you got like some sort of catchphrase for your shop?

Matt Love 54:28

We love modern classics.