Formed in 1980 by students at the University Of East Anglia, The Higsons put Norwich on the musical map of the early 1980s with a string of indie hits fusing post-punk energy and funk rhythms. Cherry Red now represent the majority of their recordings from 1981-85, including the indie hit album The Curse
Los Angeles band The Electric Prunes were immortalised by their 1966 hit 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night', one of the earliest breakthroughs for psychedelic rock. We're proud to represent some of the band's recordings, including the live album Stockholm '67 and the 2001 reunion LP Artifact. Drop us a line if
We're proud to announce the acquisition of four albums by legendary progressive rock act The Edgar Broughton Band: Bandages (1975), Parlez-Vous English? (1979), Live Hits Harder! (1979) and Superchip (1982). In related news, Cherry Red also represent the rights to five albums by occasional Broughton Creepy John Thomas, who made two collectable prog LPs in 1969/70, Creepy John Thomas and Brother
After Van Morrison disbanded what were indisputably Northern Ireland's finest R&B band, Them, in 1966, some members re-emerged with a new band, The Belfast Gypsies. Playing a tougher, more psychedelic style of R&B (now often labelled freakbeat), they made just one album, entitled Them Belfast Gypsies (issued on Sonet) in 1967 before dissolving. Cherry Red now represent the rights
In the mid-1980s, renowned producer Rupert Hine created synth pop solo project Thinkman presented as a group, with actors hired for live / TV appearances (including Julian Clary as keyboardist Leo Hurll!). Fighting Apathy With Shock is the title of a new compilation of Thinkman's recordings, which are now available for licence.
American DJ/record producer Chris Malinchak has been making music for nearly a decade. One of Chris's recent tracks, 'Photograph', sampled a Be Bop Deluxe song, 'Jean Cocteau', taken from their classic 1975 album Futurama and written by their singer/frontman Bill Nelson. Rights to all of Be Bop Deluxe's original albums are available from Cherry Red.
Born in Zimbabwe, Mataya Clifford Chewaluza moved to London in 1967 and recorded for a variety of labels before ending up at North London-based Do It Records in 1980. Clifford's sole single for Do It, 'Living Wild', was an infectious fusion of NYC-styled No Wave, funk, disco and post-punk, with a sleeve
Mixed-ish is an American single-camera sitcom TV series created by Kenya Barris, Peter Saji and Tracee Ellis Ross which debuted on ABC in September last year. It's a prequel spin-off of Black-ish. Episode 7 includes within its soundtrack Kim Wilde's classic 1981 hit 'Kids In America'. All of Kim's RAK recordings (i.e. her first
Founder member of the original Alice Cooper, guitarist and musical all-rounder Michael Bruce eventually left the band in 1974 to pursue a solo career, alongside a new Alice Cooper spin-off band Billion Dollar Babies. Cherry Red now represent much of Michael's back catalogue, from solo LPs In My Own Way (1975), Rock Rolls
One of the few all-female bands to emerge from the so-called New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s, Girlschool made the musical headlines when they collaborated with Motörhead on their St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP in 1981. Cherry Red now represent four of the band's later albums: Girlschool (1992), 21st Anniversary: Not