Snakes & Ladders Records

infobox record label


founded = 2005
founder = Anna Vincent, James Vincent, Sam Soper, Jamie Harrison
genre = Indie
country = London, England
url = http://www.snakesandladders.org.uk/

Snakes & Ladders Records (also S&L) is a London-based independent DIY label which specialises in art rock and new wave genres. The label was founded in late 2005 by Sam Soper, Jamie Harrison, Anna Vincent and James Vincent.

The label self-distributes to independent record shops around the UK (including London's Rough Trade and Sister Ray, Brighton's Rounder Records, Sheffield's Forever Changes) and worldwide (including Australia, France, USA, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, and Sweden) via its website.

In September 2006 S&L were invited to New York City by a local promoter to do a short tour with The Total Drop.

Press

Snakes & Ladders has been written about in several UK music fanzines and magazines including ArtRocker, Maps (online), I Think You'll Find That's Fireworks (online), Lobster Quadrille and Antenna.

ArtRocker featured S&L as part of its DIY labels article (August 30th 2006) and included tracks by The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties on the accompanying covermount CD. To date, S&L bands Plugs, Shock Defeat!, The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties have all been well-reviewed in the publication.

Tracks from the label's sampler compilation "S&LCD001" have also been played on the magazine's weekly radio programme on London's Resonance FM and even more notably on BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank show. Radio 1's Huw Stephens also made S&L his 'DIY-label-of-the-week' on his 'Best of Unsigned' programme, 27th September 2006.

"...with great certainty one would expect to hear a lot more from these bands and this label in the coming years." [Rough Trade Shop website, March 06]

"...an excellent snapshot of the flourishing underground art-rock scene..." [God is in the TV Zine, June 06]

"They're doing it all on their own and as such deserve to be supported in their endeavours." [ArtRocker, June 06]

"...an ace little record label." [Maps Magazine, November 06]

"Snakes and Ladders is the kind of label we all need. Desperately. Eccentric and wilful, they put out material that does not necessarily want to fit in with any current trend." [ArtRocker, February 07]

Discography

EPs

* "TTD NYC EP" - The Total Drop [S&LCD003] (September 06)
* "Rugged Individualism" - The Fat Abbots [S&L006] (April 07)
* "TBC" - The Roaring Twenties [S&L008] (June 07)

ingles

* "How Did We Make it So Angry?" - Shock Defeat [S&LCD002] (September 06)
* "Your Excellency" - The Total Drop [S&LCD004] (January 07)
* "Nuit Americaine" - The Total Drop [S&L007] (April 07)
* "I Am Pied Piper" - Catnap [S&L005] (Nov 07)

Compilations

* "S&LCD001" - 18-track label sampler [S&LCD001] (March 06)

Artists

*The Total Drop
*The Roaring Twenties
*Shock Defeat!
*Plugs
*Liquor Store
*Catnap
*The Fat Abbots
*The Rhythm Method
*Kwes.

ee also

* List of record labels

Notes

External links

* [http://www.snakesandladders.org.uk Snakes & Ladders Records website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/snakesandladdersrecords Snakes & Ladders Records on MySpace]