Bristol
Archive Records is a label dedicated to re-releasing
music from the Bristol music scene. The aim of the label
is to provide historical material to ensure that the
artists involved are never forgotten. Many of the artists
involved have been/are still very influential people
in today's music scene.
Bristol Archive Records is a subsidiary of Sugar Shack
Records Ltd... more
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Timbuktu
Talking Records are marketed in the UK by Sugar Shack.
The first release from the label is by solo artist KEIKO.
The label is owned by a multi media company in Cheltenham
and its aim is to develop new solo artists... more
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Someone had to recognise Bristol's
combination of shit-hot musicianship, theatricality
and absolute disregard for success, and that man was
Andy Leighton, Phil Manzanera look-alike guitarist for
the Crystal Theatre (a real 60's alternative theatre
group) and publisher of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Fried Egg Records was launched in September 1979...
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Wavelength metamorphisised into
The Bristol Recorder, brainchild of Martin Elbourne,
Jonathan Arthur and Thos Brooman - Womad overlord. Where
other Independents had failed trying to promote more
than one up-and-coming band at a time, a clever gimmick
(then) of incorporating an ad filled magazine between
the covers, aimed to fund this compilation album of
local bands.
Wavelength and The Recorder stopped in 1987... more info
Find
out about all the bands in Bristol during this period
and how they helped create the current Bristol Scene
with Massive Attack, Portishead and Roni Size... more info
