Sad news to hear the FIST2FACE Record Store in Ringwood, Melbourne has announced plans to close its doors after 10 years of operation.The news comes on the back of Brisbane store Kill The Music closing in January.

Statement below...

"Hey guys,
We've been trying to do this all official with like a proper press release n shit but in the end it just did my head in!

So the big news is that after 10 years, I've decided to call it a day with Fist2Face. For the most part it's been fucking amazing to run an Independent Record Store, but the last couple of years have been pretty taxing on the business and myself personally.
Smashed windows, graffiti'd walls, multiple floods, thieving customers, thieving staff, a local council that gave us '28 days to cease trade' a couple of years back, and all of this whilst releasing 5 independent albums of my own.. it's fair to say I'm spent!
I didn't throw it in without a fight though.. I spent the last year or so without drawing a wage, working other jobs to help pay bills and living out of a backpack/crashing on friends couches all in the hope of keeping the doors open, but it was to no avail in the end

But as I said, for the most part, running this store has been a total blast!
THANK YOU to all the hundreds of bands who came out to play free instore gigs!
Thank you to all the labels we worked with!
Thank you to all our (mostly) amazing staff past and present!
and most of all, thank you to all our customers who believed in what we did! Keep supporting independent record stores (JB HI FI is NOT a record store!!)

We will need as much support over the next few months as possible as we attempt to close up with minimal debt. At the earliest we will close in April, the latest will be the end of June.
Please come on down to the store (or jump online) and grab a record or a shirt. With a bit of luck we might be able to put together a couple of benefit shows and we'll print up some final f2f shirts too.

Thanks again everyone, hope to see you soon!
- Gerard Pidoto"