Fire Records (UK)
Fire Records is a British independent record label, based in London, England. 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.
| Fire Records | |
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| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Johnny Waller, Clive Solomon |
| Genre | Alternative rock, indie rock |
| Country of origin | England |
| Location | London |
| Official website | www |
After slowing down, the label was taken over in the late 1990s by James Nicholls, and has gone on to release albums by Guided By Voices, Giant Sand, Pere Ubu, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Jane Weaver, Josephine Foster and The Lemonheads [1]
Roster
- Current
- Bardo Pond
- Bark Psychosis
- The Bevis Frond
- The Chills
- Death And Vanilla
- The Groundhogs
- Josephine Foster
- Howe Gelb
- Kristin Hersh
- Las Kellies
- Modern Studies
- Noveller
- Orchestra Of Spheres
- Pere Ubu
- Pictish Trail
- Rats On Rafts
- Scott & Charlene's Wedding
- Virginia Wing
- Jane Weaver
- Former
- Archers of Loaf
- Bailter Space
- Atlantica
- The Badgeman
- Blank Realm
- Blue Aeroplanes
- Boston Spaceships
- Cardinal
- Chuck
- Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
- Ned Collette + Wirewalker
- Congregation
- Bobby Conn
- Cottonmouth
- Danielson
- Richard Davies
- Delicate AWOL
- Ryan Driver
- ESG
- Everclear
- The Farm
- Fitz of Depression
- The Garbage and the Flowers
- Duke Garwood
- Giant Sand
- Gigolo Aunts
- Guided By Voices
- Gun Club
- Half Japanese
- Harbourkings
- Hospitality
- HTRK
- Jackie O Motherfucker
- Libido
- Lives of Angels
- Lower Plenty
- Manifesto
- Mega City Four
- Mission of Burma
- Tom Morgan
- AC Newman
- The Nightblooms
- Novocaine
- Opossom
- The Parachute Men
- Robert Pollard
- Chuck Prophet
- Rocket From The Tombs
- The Rose of Avalanche
- Sammy
- Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts
- Scraps
- The Servants
- Sign Language
- Silver Chapter
- Supermodel
- Surf City
- Tells
- Telstar Ponies
- Tenebrous Liar
- Thrum
- The Times
- Variety Lights
- Virgin Passages
- Wooden Wand
See also
- List of independent record labels
References
- "The Daily Rind | Tag Archive | james nicholls". Dailyrindblog.com. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
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