Big Beat Records (British record label)

Big Beat Records is a British record label and import distributor owned by Ace Records, specialising in garage rock.^[1][2]

Roster

Releases include:

• Big Star
• Dean Carter
• The Chocolate Watchband
• Count Five
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Cramps
• The Damned
• Fifty Foot Hose
• The Flaming Stars
• Frumious Bandersnatch
• The Fugs
• Gosdin Brothers
• Dan Hicks
• Bert Jansch
• Janie Jones & the Lash
• Mahogany Rush
• Mighty Baby
• Motörhead
• The Music Machine
• The Nightcrawlers
• The Rationals
• John Renbourn
• The Screaming Blue Messiahs
• She
• The Stingrays (1980s band)
• Sharon Tandy
• The Sonics
• The Zombies

See also

• List of record labels

References

1. Colin Larkin The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music 1561591769 - - Volume 1 1995- Page 52 Ace Records Ted Carroll and Roger Armstrong, co-owners of London collectors' shop Rock On, established the Ace label in ... A subsidiary, Big Beat, was set up the following decade as an outlet for garageband and psychedelic material.
2. David Stubbs, Rob Young Ace Records: Labels Unlimited 2008 Page 87 Another example of the type of group Big Beat worked with was The Stingrays. As Alec Palao, the American-based English expat, one time member of the band and subsequent Ace consultant, recalls: "The band was an amalgam of everything we were into, be it rockabilly, garage punk, 1 970s punk, surf, northern soul, folk-rock; we were omnivores." The Stingrays were the classic example of a band who had supersized on Ace's ever-increasing and eclectic output of lost music.

External links

• Official page, Acerecords.co.uk