Fire Records (UK)

Fire Records is a British independent record label, run by James Nicholls, with offices in London, England and New York, United States. 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. The label was relaunched in the late 1990s by James Nicholls, and has gone on to release albums by Guided By Voices, Giant Sand, Pere Ubu, Black Lips, Jane Weaver, Josephine Foster, The Lemonheads and Islet.

Roster

Current

Bardo Pond

Bark Psychosis

The Bevis Frond

The Chills

Death And Vanilla

The Groundhogs

Josephine Foster

Howe Gelb

Islet

Kristin Hersh

Las Kellies

Marina Allen

Marta Del Grandi

Modern Studies

Noveller

Orchestra Of Spheres

Pere Ubu

Pictish Trail

Rats On Rafts

RVG (band) Scott & Charlene's Wedding Throwing Muses 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

Pulp

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

Spacemen 3

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

External links

Official Fire Records website

British independent record labels

Record labels established in 1986

Indie rock record labels

Alternative rock record labels

1986 establishments in the United Kingdom