Kitchenware Records

Kitchenware Records

Kitchenware Records is an independent record label based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. It was founded in 1982 by Keith Armstrong and Phil Mitchell, and was originally part of The Soul Kitchen, an artist collective and nightclub.Citation | last=Thomson | first=Daniel | author-link= | year=July 17, 2007 | title=Keith celebrates with a No. 1 album | periodical=The Journal | volume= | issue= | pages=31 | id= | url=http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/journallive/culture/tm_method=full%26objectid=19465230%26siteid=50081-name_page.html ]

Kitchenware Records currently represents a number of artists in the music industry:

*Editors
*The Motorettes
*Sirens
*Kate Walsh
*Kid Coda
*The Changes (Licensed from Drama Club Records, Chicago USA)
*Karima Francis
*Waiting For Volkaerts

Of this current roster of artists, Editors are currently the most successful, having gained platinum status with their album "The Back Room", which also reached number two on the UK Albums Chart. The band's second album, "An End Has a Start", brought the label its first UK number-one album upon its 25th anniversary in 2007.

Sirens, The Motorettes and Kate Walsh have also had chart success in the UK.

Past acts on Kitchenware Records include:

* Prefab Sprout (licensed to CBS Records / Columbia, now Sony BMG)
* Martin Stephenson and the Daintees
* Hurrah!
* Fatima Mansions (licensed to Radioactive Records)
* Kane Gang (licensed to London Records, now Warner Music Group)
* Hug (licensed to EMI)

References

ee also

* List of record labels
* List of independent UK record labels


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