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Music shops are woeful here in general. They don't even stock good bass strings half the time... hello Thomann!
Matchett's in particular winds me up every time I'm in. They used to stock a Warwick Thumb and Jazzman, but now it's all Fenders/Squires/Ibanez. Mehhhh.
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Welcome to the forum.
I'm also from Ballymena area, and yes the music shops aren't great. Two new ones have opened recently though in the ballymena town centre.
As for Matchetts, I bought the last warwick thumb I remember seeing in matchetts. It was about a week after they sold the jazzman you are talking about, and I won't say how little I paid for it, but it was so very stupid cheap. Sold it for what I definitely won't disclose about a month later.
Enjoy the conference in August, new horizon I presume ?