Fire Records (UK)

Fire Records
Founded1986
FounderJohnny Waller, Clive Solomon
GenreAlternative rock, indie rock
Country of originUnited Kingdom
LocationLondon, England
Official websitewww.firerecords.com

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.[1][2]

  1. ^ "The Daily Rind | Tag Archive | James Nicholls". Dailyrindblog.com. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
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