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Bicycle Records
Record label formed by Jane Taylor a Bristol-based guitarist, pianist, songwriter and vocalist. It is distributed by Pinnacle. Jane won the UK and International Songwriting Competition in 2003 with her song "Blowing This Candle Out".
Bristol Archive Records
Subsidiary of Sugar Shack Records, set up in 2008 and specializing in unreleased tracks and re-releasing recordings (mainly for download) by Bristol bands, from 1976 onwards. According to Mike Darby, label owner, ristol Archive Records was officially launched this year 2008 as a vehicle to talk about and remember Bristol forgotten stars, those people that should have, could have or probably had no chance of fame and Global domination, but had a go, made some great music, went to the gigs, helped make the records, bought the records or just had great fun growing up in this ace city of ours.3]
The Bristol Recorder
Innovative subsidiary label of Wavelength Records, that produced three issues of a combination LP/magazine, before folding. Bristol Recorder 1 included live tracks from Electric Guitars, Circus Circus, Various Artists and Joe Public. Recorder 2 had live tracks from Peter Gabriel (including Ain't That Peculiar), plus Fish Food, The Radicals, The X-Certs and The Welders (otherwise known as The Korgis). Recorder 3 had tracks from P.B. Davies (of Crystal Theatre/Shoes For Industry), Essential Bop. Robert Fripp, Ekome Dance Company and Thompson Twins.
Cat No.
Artist
Title
Date
Configuration
BR 001
Various
Bristol Recorder 1
1980
LP/Magazine
BR 002
Various
Bristol Recorder 2
1981
LP/Magazine
BR 003
Various
Bristol Recorder 3
1981
LP/Magazine
Circus Records
Commercial label (distributed by Pinnacle) that produced 6 singles and a compilation LP in 1981, before calling it a day. The LP, The Circus Comes To Town (TENT 0001), included tracks from: Rimshots, Black Roots, Treatment, Alarm Clox, Gold, Riz Wah Wah, Steve Booton & Pat Jones, Dangerous Brothers, Forty Blue Fingers, Info-Mania, Kevin McFadden and The Bite.
Cat No.
Artist
Title
Date
Configuration
CIRC 0001
Bohana Mouse Band
F/Seven C
1981
12 single
CIRC 0002
The Source
Like a Child/?
1981
7 single
CIRC 0003
The Stingrays
Never do/Satellites
1981
7 single
CIRC 0004
Bendall Box
Nightmares/Games Today
1981
7 single
CIRC 0005
Sky High
Ghettos of your own kind/Part 2
1981
7 single
CIRC 0006
Slim Bridges And The Wildflowers
Rocking Goose/Mole At The Circus
1981
7 single
TENT 0001
Various
The Circus Comes To Town
1981
LP
Green Goat Productions
Record label currently producing material from Steve Bush (ex-Essential Bop) and Fran Frey. Their first CD 'Row of Ashes' was released in 2008.
Hope Recordings
A Bristol based record label established in 1998 by Leon Alexander and Steve Satterthwaite. It is run by Leon Alexander, with English house music DJ and record producer Nick Warren in control of its A&R, and is home to progressive house and breaks artists such as Starecase, Jaytech, Matt Rowan, and Parallel Sound.
Monopause Records
This was Essential Bops own record label, having previously had the track hronicle on the LP Avon Calling. There were two releases, both in resealable plastic bags with folded picture sleeves and lyrics printed inside, and distributed by Bristols Revolver Records. The second single received airplay in New York, resulting in the band touring and recording there in 1981. The band subsequently released 2 tracks on the Bristol Recorder 3, an LP on TSAR Records and a downloadable album on Bristol Archive Records.
In 1977 Miles Copeland helped set up a number of labels to ride the current Punk/New Wave. Bristols The Cortinas had already signed to Step Forward Records and New Bristol was another of his labels. As the labels first band The Pigs put it, ugust 12th at Sound Conception 4-track studio. It been about 20 weeks since we formed, wee written maybe 12 songs and played 6 or so gigs. Now wee recording our whole set. As it turns out, most of this stuff won see the light of day for 30 years. Copeland chooses the four tracks for the EP that going to launch a new Bristol record label. They call it New Bristol Records. Yeah.9] The label appears to have had only 2 releases, by The Pigs and Gardez Darkx.
Cat No.
Artist
Title
Date
Configuration
NBR 01
The Pigs
Youthanasia/They Say/Psychopath/National Front
1977
7 EP
NBR 02
Gardez Darkx
Freeze (In the U.L.zone)/Heartbeat
1978
7 single
Party Records
Released the Blue Aeroplanes first album Bop Art in 1983, distributed by The Cartel.
Shoc-Wave Records
Shoc-Wave was based in Easton, Bristol, and run by Gene Walsh. It specialized in Dominican music and Jamaican reggae bands such as Joshua Moses and Buggs Durrant, but also released records from a variety of other genres including Dub, Disco and Ska. In 1980 they released the single Was Wrong / Stuck in a Boat (SRP0007) by The Rimshots, five middle class white kids from Bristols northern suburbs playing 2-Tone styled ska.
Wavelength Records
The label was set up by drummer Thomas Brooman (along with Bob Hooton) to release a single by his Bristol Big Band, The Spics. It subsequently released 3 further singles by Gardez Darkx, Joe Public (another Brooman band) and Color Tapes before reinventing itself in 1980 as a combination magazine/record called The Bristol Recorder, which ran for 3 issues.
Cat No.
Artist
Title
Date
Configuration
HURT 001
The Spics
You and Me/Bus Stop
1981
7 single
HURT 002
Gardez Darkx
Bliss/Winter Scene
1979
7 single
HURT 003
Joe Public
Hermans Back/Travelling With Raymond/Like It
1979
7 single
HURT 004
Color Tapes
Cold Anger/Leaves of China
1979
7 single
BR 001
Various
Bristol Recorder 1
1980
LP/Magazine
BR 002
Various
Bristol Recorder 2
1981
LP/Magazine
BR 003
Various
Bristol Recorder 3
1981
LP/Magazine
See also
List of Record Labels from Bristol
List of independent UK record labels
List of record labels
List of Bands from Bristol
Bristol
References
^ The Pigs and New Bristol Records unk77.co.uk
^ COR at Penetration82
^ http://bristolarchiverecords.com/blog/?paged=8 Mike Darby New Year Message 2009 on Bristol Archive Records
^ http://www.discogs.com/label/The+Bristol+Recorder Bristol Recorder at Discogs.com
^ The Circus Comes To Town utant Sounds
^ Circus Records Discogs.com
^ http://www.greengoat.co.uk/homepage.html Green Goat website
