New Digital Download Releases:

Lunatic Fringe ‘How’s in Control EP’ with extensive notes from John Finch and great pics 1982
Valve ‘Pulling Legs Off Flies’ – The Claytown Troupe without Christian and Richard circa 1994
Sweet Energy Album – 1990
The Directors Album with notes from Dave Masters circa 1979- 1983

Vinyl and CD Releases:

The Cortinas ‘Mk 1’ – OUT JUNE 21ST
LIMITED EDITION 500 COPIES VINYL ALBUM
14 STUNNING TRACKS 3 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED IN ANY FORMAT

Bristol’s first punk band, The Cortinas, formed in March 1976 when Jeremy Valentine (vocals), Nick Sheppard (guitar), Mike Fewins (guitar), Dexter Dalwood (bass) and Daniel Swan were still at school.“Jer put the band together, he definitely had a vision of what he wanted; he was very hip – Dexter and Mike went to the same school as him” remembers Nick. “He found me via Mark Stewart, who I went to school with, and I brought Dan in; we had played in a band together before. We used to practise at the back of Jer’s Dad’s shop”.

Available to pre-order now from:
www.bristolarchiverecords.com
www.amazon.co.uk and all major distribution outlets and Record Shops

The Bristol Punk Explosion – Out June 14th

Various Artists Compilation CD with 20 page full colour booklet and 4000 word sleeve notes by Shane Baldwin
20 STUNNING TRACKS 7 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

The Cortinas were the first. They played the Roxy Club, released two singles on Mark Perry and Miles Copeland’s Step Forward label, graced the front cover of Sniffin’ Glue and recorded a Peel Session. Guitarist Nick Sheppard remembers the night it all slotted into place: “I think a real turning point for us was seeing the Ramones at the Roundhouse on July 4 1976 – we definitely started to write our own songs after that gig. We had been playing and doing gigs for about a year by then – all covers apart from one song, Tokyo Joe as I remember. After that gig we started writing stuff like Television Families. I think we saw people like us in the audience at that gig, and it must have given us confidence.”

Taking their cue, bands like Social Security (the first band on Heartbeat Records), The Pigs (whose Youthanasia single was released by Miles Copeland’s New Bristol Records), The Primates, The Media, The Posers and The Verdict gave Bristol one of the strongest provincial early punk scenes, mainly centred around the Clifton area of Bristol and Barton Hill Youth Club.

Available to pre-order now from:
www.bristolarchiverecords.com
www.amazon.co.uk
www.play.com
www.hmv.co.uk and all major distribution outlets and Record Shops

Videos:
The Fans live at Red Cloth, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 19 April 2010
Video added to the Fans section of the site – Wow!

NUBIAN RECORDS
The discography has been added to The Archive Records section as near to complete as we can get it plus stories on Bristol Reggae Kings Black Roots

Bands 1982 onwards:
NAKED EYES – THE STORY
PETE BYRNE INTERVIEWED BY JONAS WÅRSTAD
Fascinating interview with this massive Bath band who recorded all their demos before signing to EMI with Steve Street at SAM Studios

The Peoples section:
The Tony Dodd story has been added he of Tony’s Records fame but also the guy that started Revolver records on the Triangle in Clifton – LEGEND!

The Future:
Working on CD albums from:
The Bristol Reggae Explosion – Various Artists
The Best of Heartbeat Records – Various Artists
The Pigs – Vinyl release

‘AVON CALLING 2’
Released worldwide on 23rd August 2010
20 SUPERB TRACKS ALL PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD

In 1979, Bristols’ music scene was riding the crest of the new wave, spawning numerous bands and performers whose influences and indeed physical beings have gone on to feature in some of todays’ big music makers.
During this period local musician Simon Edwards decided to form Bristols’ first independent label, Heartbeat Records, to capture all the excitement and get Bristols’ music out beyond the M32.
With so many bands to choose from the label set about releasing a series of 7” singles, and such was the demand realised by these that a compilation LP featuring fifteen of these bands was released. The album, topically titled AVON CALLING went on to achieve near legendary status – even hailed by John Peel as “truly superb, the compilation that all others should be judged by”.

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