Fire Records (UK)
| Fire Records | |
|---|---|
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| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Johnny Waller, Clive Solomon |
| Genre | Alternative rock, indie rock |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Location | London |
| Official website |
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Fire Records is a British independent record label headquartered in London, England, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Japan. The label was founded by music journalist Johnny Waller and Clive Solomon in 1985 and released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub (on subsidiary label Paperhouse), Spacemen 3 (formerly on Glass Records), Blue Aeroplanes, Lives of Angels and others. In the early 1990s, the label was home to Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, Urge Overkill and others. After slowing down, the label was taken over in the late 1990s by current label head James Nicholls, and has released records by Guided By Voices, Giant Sand, Pere Ubu, Mission of Burma, Wooden Wand, Opossom, Blank Realm, and Surf City.[1]
Current roster
- AC Newman
- Archers of Loaf
- Bailter Space
- Bardo Pond
- Blank Realm
- Boston Spaceships
- Cardinal
- Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
- Ned Collette + Wirewalker
- Bobby Conn
- Danielson
- Richard Davies
- Ryan Driver
- ESG
- Jad Fair
- Josephine Foster
- The Garbage and the Flowers
- Duke Garwood
- Howe Gelb
- Giant Sand
- Guided By Voices
- Half Japanese
- Hospitality
- Jackie O Motherfucker
- Las Kellies
- Lower Plenty
- Mission of Burma
- Tom Morgan
- Opossom
- Orchestra of Spheres
- Pere Ubu
- Scraps
- Rocket From The Tombs
- Robert Pollard
- Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts
- Scott & Charlene's Wedding
- Scraps
- Surf City
- Variety Lights
- Virgin Passages
- Wooden Wand[2]
"Fire Embers" re-issue series
- AC Acoustics
- The Adverts
- Close Lobsters
- ESG
- The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
- The Lemonheads
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- The Pastels
- Pigbag
- Rainer Ptacek
- Pulp
- Rocket From The Tombs
- Spacemen 3
- Smudge
- Teenage Fanclub
- Television Personalities[2]
Associated artists
includes artists taking part in the James Joyce Chamber Music project or the labels Keep Mother 10" improvised series
- Jessica Bailiff
- Califone
- Flying Saucer Attack
- Gravenhurst
- Ed Harcourt
- Liars
- Mercury Rev
- Mike Watt
- Willy Mason
Past artists
- Atlantica
- The Badgeman
- Blue Aeroplanes
- Chuck
- Congregation
- Cottonmouth
- Delicate AWOL
- Everclear
- The Farm
- Fitz of Depression
- Gigolo Aunts
- Gun Club
- Harbourkings
- HTRK
- Libido
- Lives of Angels
- Manifesto
- Mega City Four
- The Nightblooms
- Novocaine
- The Parachute Men
- Chuck Prophet
- The Rose of Avalanche
- Sammy
- The Servants
- Sign Language
- Silver Chapter
- Supermodel
- Tells
- Telstar Ponies
- Tenebrous Liar
- Thrum
- The Times
See also
References
- ↑ "The Daily Rind | Tag Archive | james nicholls". Dailyrindblog.com. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
- 1 2 "Fire Records". Fire Records. Retrieved 2013-03-03.